Undone Quotes

To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Even victors are by victories undone.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility.

What's done can't be undone.

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.

So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.