Undoing Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.

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.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.