Undoing Quotes - Page 2

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

  Ernest Becker

  Lying, Trying, Desperate

  Ernest Becker (1985). “Escape from Evil”, Free Press

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• 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.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Determination, Looks, Grim

  Robert L. Heilbroner (2011). “The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Worship, Wise Words

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.91, BookBaby

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

  Peter Drucker

  Leader, Charisma, Infallibility

  Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.101, Routledge

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

  Wes Fesler

  Boys, May, Irony

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• 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.

  Eve Ensler

  Insecure, Guarantees That, Quests

  Eve Ensler (2006). “Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World”, p.195, Villard

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• I respect animals. I have more sympathy for an injured or dead animal than I do for an injured or dead human being, because human beings participate and cooperate in their own undoing. Animals are completely innocent. There are no innocent human beings.

  George Carlin

  Animal, Innocent, Humans

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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

  Swami Satchidananda

  Letting Go, Peace

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

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Tongue, Tomorrow

  William Shakespeare (1998). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.138, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Carl Rakosi

  Social Work, Poet, Social

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

  Pema Chodron

  World, Patterns, Resolution

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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

  Louise Erdrich

  Our Actions, Action, Seeds

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• 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.

  Jerrold Nadler

  Government, Affordable Care Act, Minorities

  "A Fundamental Challenge to Democracy" by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2013.

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

  Judy LaMarsh

  Jobs, Done, Readiness

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• I was letting go and undoing the hell I had created. By squaring all with love, trying to love rather than trying to be loved, and by taking responsibility for all that was happening to me; finding my subconscious thought and correcting it, I became freer and freer, happier and happier.

  Lester Levenson

  Letting Go, Responsibility, Trying

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• Is there something wrong?” he asked. She gave a short negative motion with her head. And then words, so sweet, like a cool northern breeze blowing off the lake. “You could hold me now.” It was almost his undoing. “Ah baby.

  Maya Banks

  Baby, Sweet, Lakes

  Maya Banks (2012). “Maya Banks KGI”, p.101, Penguin

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• 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.

  Louise Erdrich

  Children, Promise, Our Actions

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• After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.

  C. S. Lewis

  Errors, Temptation, Needs

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

  Amory Lovins

  Motivation, Inspiration, What If

  "Climate Change: No Breakthroughs Needed". sustainability.asu.edu. June 27, 2016.

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• What's a domestic partnership? Domestic partnership is not even a marriage, and there's a contract that involves, potentially, sexual and financial commitments to each other. In this case, however, the guy is also charging one dollar, and that is his undoing.

  Max Kellerman

  Commitment, Guy, Dollars

  "The Situation with Tucker Carlson", www.nbcnews.com. March 20, 2006.

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• 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.

  Arthur Middleton

  Fall, Men, Medicine

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• I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists such as Freeman Dyson, one of the greatest physicists of the last hundred years, who has studied the question, who believes quite the opposite. The reason transnational action is so difficult is because the major problem with climate change is, A, that there is no consensus, and, B, that the economic cost is simply staggering. Reversing it completely might mean undoing the modern industrial economy.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "Obama Is Average". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. [...] There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened.

  Katherine Applegate

  School, Would Be, Statistics

  "The Diversion". Book by K. A. Applegate, 2001.

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• 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.

  Ovid

  Love, Sports, Lying

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• Now are the days, of humblest prayer,
  When consciences to God lie bare,
  And mercy most delights to spare.
  Oh hearken when we cry.
  Now is the season, wisely long,
  Of sadder thought and graver song,
  When ailing souls grow well and strong.
  Oh hearken when we cry.
  The feast of penance! Oh so bright,
  With true conversion's heavenly light,
  Like sunrise after stormy night!
  Oh hearken when we cry.
  Oh happy time of blessed tears,
  Of surer hopes, of chast'ning fears,
  Undoing all our evil years.
  Oh hearken when we cry.
  Chastise us with Thy fear;
  Yet, Father! in the multitude
  Of Thy compassions, hear!

  Frederick William Faber

  Song, Strong, Prayer

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