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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. -- Horace Mann
I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet. -- Carl Rakosi
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. -- Holbrook Jackson
Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing. -- Moshe Sharett
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing. -- Alfred Stieglitz
Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time. -- Kate Smith
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. -- Margery Allingham
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. -- Dennis Prager
Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing. -- William Shakespeare
The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing. -- Kate DiCamillo
Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. -- Mignon McLaughlin
All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. -- Louise Erdrich
What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing? -- Amory Lovins
Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go. -- Swami Satchidananda
Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't. -- Theodore Roethke
We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution. -- Pema Chodron
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. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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. -- Bram Stoker
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. -- Chuck Schumer
The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today. -- John F. Kennedy
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. -- Charles B. Rangel
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
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others. -- Horace Mann
Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology, our souls are shrunk and flattened by its pervasive rule. Any sense of wholeness and freedom can only return by the undoing of the massive division of labour at the heart of technological progress. This is the liberatory project in all its depth. -- John Zerzan
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. -- Shannon Hale
Hell is only the Cringe Eternal and the Place of our Self's Undoing. When Nietzsche proclaimed "God is Dead!" he forgot to add that Satan is also dead and we are free from all that antique tat." -- Grant Morrison
The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing. -- Thomas Moore
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
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. -- Evangeline Lilly
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
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. -- Ronald Frame
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. -- Simon Van Booy
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. -- Chuck Schumer
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. -- Charles B. Rangel
I have invested at least 20 years in business and my own reputation. I'm excited to come into public service, because I think I have something to offer and to contribute. In no way will I put myself in a position of undoing what's taken 20 years to build. -- Nigel S. Wright
To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to Gaddafi's undoing, a dictator's survival can be at risk because of newness in office, poor health, or old age combined with economic trouble. -- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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. -- Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque. -- Said Sayrafiezadeh
Your early successes can be your undoing later. -- Michael Hyatt
But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing. -- Virginia Woolf
I will be my undoing If I become my obsession. -- Veronica Roth
They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing. -- Agatha Christie
The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son. -- Mohsin Hamid
Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing. -- M.I.A.
That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing. -- Euripides
In the end you will be your own undoing. You can't escape you. -- Ted Dekker
Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change -- Peter Drucker
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world. -- Reginald Horace Blyth
It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done. -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Crying wolf may have been the boy's undoing, but the true irony was that the wolves were always lurking nearby. -- Wes Fesler
To make the world. To make it again and again. To make it in the very maelstrom of its undoing. -- Cormac McCarthy
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing. -- Elbert Hubbard
Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing. -- Ernest Becker
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
Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites. -- William Bennett
The awkwardness of getting reward in a well-off society is that the creation of appetite often requires undoing the work of satisfying appetite. -- George Ainslie
Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
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
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. -- Jeff Cooper
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. -- Justine Larbalestier
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. -- Paul Ryan
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, -- Norma McCorvey
People call Kong "a monster." He's not. There's nothing evil about Kong. He's just another creature who has opened up a little bit of his heart to Ann and it proves to be his undoing. -- Peter Jackson

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