Undone Quotes - Page 5

• Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.

  Saigyō

  Winter, Rocks, Ice

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• We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing, with consequent repentance and humility.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, War, Humility

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• David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching. To read it is to have yourself taken apart, undone, touched at the place of your own essence.

  Nicole Krauss

  Powerful, Taken, Land

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• With every word unspoken each moment comes undone.

  Tarkan

  Moments, Unspoken

  Song: Over, Album: Come Closer, 2006

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• Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much he has assigned us to do we do not know, but if we fail in our assignment it is pretty certain that a part of the job will be left undone.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Jobs, Philosophy, Responsibility

  "The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan".

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• So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on top of each other. There is air like plastic, a horizon like setting glue. There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking, and there are soft, coal-coloured clouds, beating, like black hearts. And then. There is death. Making his way through all of it. On the surface: unflappable, unwavering. Below: unnerved, untied, and undone.

  Markus Zusak

  Memories, Heart, Clouds

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• I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose thread will transform your warm sweater into a mangled heap of yarn that you can't reuse or repair.

  Tayari Jones

  Love Is, Yarn, Sweaters

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• What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears - so I blink hard against the sting. "I'm thinking how thankful I am for everything," I say, "even the bad stuff. Every sleepless night, every second of being lonely, every time the car broke down, every wad of gum on my shoe, every late bill and losing lottery ticket and bruise and broken dish and piece of burnt toast." His voice is soft. "Why, darlin'?" "Because it all led me here to you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Lonely, Hate, Night

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.415, Macmillan

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• ... And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard king, more a gecko duchess, I fitted in nicely with their idea of what a creative person should be.

  Russell Brand

  Kings, Drinking, Hair

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• As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.

  Jose Saramago

  Tire, Accomplished, Feels

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• There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

  John Green

  Knowing, Alaska, Done

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Greed, May, Faults

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• What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.

  Ann Voskamp

  Arms, Matter, Harm

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• To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is till wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best.

  John Hall Gladstone

  Wise, Men, Brain

  John Hall Gladstone (1872). “Michael Faraday”, p.41, London : Macmillan & Company

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• The Way is ever without action, yet nothing is left undone.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Way, Action

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• When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Done

  Laozi (2008). “Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation”, University Press of Amer

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• We also need the provisions in the tax bill that will permit working mothers to increase the deduction from income tax liability for costs incurred in providing care for their children while the mothers are working. In October the Commission on the Status of Women will report to me. This problem should have a high priority, and I think that whatever we leave undone this year we must move on this in January.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mother, Children, Moving

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.465, Best Books on

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• Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.

  Simon Van Booy

  Love Is, Violence

  Simon van Booy (2013). “The Illusion of Separateness”, p.101, Oneworld Publications

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• The rise in health care costs since Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act was passed, have been at their lowest rate in 50 years. Those savings have extended the Medicare trust fund by 11 years. So we've got a baseline of facts.So it is true theoretically that all that progress can be undone, and suddenly 20 million people or more don't have health insurance.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Obamacare, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Army, Duty

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• I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael's house one day, and he noticed my shoelaces were undone. He bent down and tied them. I almost cried. To me, it was such a gesture of love.

  Kirk Douglas

  Love, Dream, Heart

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• If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.

  Confucius

  Wisdom, Art, People

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• You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day - not long and difficult projects, but chores that will take you, step by step, toward your rainbow. Write them down, if you must, but limit your list so that you won't have to drag today's undone matters into tomorrow. Remember that you cannot build your pyramid in twenty-four hours. Be patient. Never allow your day to become so cluttered that you neglect your most important goal - to do the best you can, enjoy this day, and rest satisfied with what you have accomplished.

  Og Mandino

  Motivational, Dream, Writing

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• I like people more undone than made up. Patricia Arquette is the ultimate. She's not anorexic or perfectly tan, she's not trying to be anything but what she is, and that's the most sexy thing.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Sexy, People, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do no evilness because it is a small one; do not leave a small deed undone because it is just a petty one.

  Liu Bei

  Deeds, Evilness, Petty

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