Top 100 Undoing Quotes & Sayings

I think it's safe to say that the entire abortion industry is based on a lie.... I am dedicated to spending the rest of my life undoing the law that bears my name.

Moving is hard. Staying is easy. Logistically speaking, at least. And this is true whether you're doing or undoing something.

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

I would not like to be replaced by someone who immediately sets about undoing what I've tried to do for 25-26 years.

I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.

The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.

For conservatives, the issue is that for generations now, they have failed to make the case for their values. They haven't even conveyed conservative values to many of their children. And when they have, the university has often succeeded in undoing them.

Your early successes can be your undoing later.

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.

Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.

For one who has read the works of Marx it is frightening to look back at the grim determination with which so many nations steadfastly hewed to the very course which he insisted would lead to their undoing.

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

[Donald Trump] has specified - he has specified a contract with his voters that range - that has a lot of things on it. It ranges everything from repealing Obamacare to backing out of trade deals to undoing all the executive actions.

Eric walks toward me, and I back away by instinct. I try not to be afraid of him, but I know how smart he is and that if I’m not careful he’ll notice that I keep staring at her, and that will be my undoing.

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.

We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution.

We see President [Donald] Trump actually reclaiming the proper role of the executive, and undoing a lot of damage that was done to the economy through excessive executive action by President [Barack] Obama.

Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

In the end you will be your own undoing. You can't escape you.

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

One of the things that has always been my undoing in politics is my readiness to do whatever job has to be done.

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.

If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.

Crying wolf may have been the boy's undoing, but the true irony was that the wolves were always lurking nearby.

People come up and say, 'Thank you' for showing a black family loving their masculine-presenting child and for undoing the myth of black people as being rabidly homophobic.

It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.

In Australia we have a government actively undoing what little progress had been made on climate change and stripping money from all the important institutions such as the ABC, CSIRO and SBS.

In every one of the 'Squickerwonker' books, we will explore a new Squickerwonker character and their vice and how their vice generally leads to their undoing.

The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.

Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved, Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.

My ma says You can't unspill a stew." "She also says Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right." "You know, Ma is very good at saying two things at once.

As a little boy, I apparently had a predilection for undoing latch gates, running up pathways and ringing doorbells - and then running off again and away before the door was opened behind me.

The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

With the mining sites, I found a subject matter that carried forth my fascination with the undoing of the landscape, in terms of both its formal beauty and its environmental politics.

Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing.

Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

Something that could bring you wealth and fame could also be your end, your undoing.

After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's the only way we're going to survive. And now it's like we're undoing these very fragile institutions that were built after the First and Second World Wars that were about nations working on a kind of global diplomacy for our mutual benefit. And we're undoing them at such rapid-fire pace.

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.