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- What's done can't be undone. -- William Shakespeare
- Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven. -- Igor Stravinsky
- Even victors are by victories undone. -- John Dryden
- Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui. -- Emile M. Cioran
- The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. -- Oswald Chambers
- Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone. -- Elizabeth Fry
- Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. -- Confucius
- Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. -- Pablo Picasso
- The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. -- Horace
- 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. -- Emily Bronte
- 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. -- Lin Yutang
- 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. -- Sydney J. Harris
- 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. -- Richard von Weizsaecker
- 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. -- Earl Warren
- Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do. -- Yoshida Kenko
- Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone. -- Elvis Costello
- When we love the stars light up, the wrong becomes undone. Naturally, my soul surrenders. -- Carrie Underwood
- Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone. -- Lisa Alther
- Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth. -- Max Beerbohm
- The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone. -- Gordon Lightfoot
- An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone. -- Walter Savage Landor
- It isn't the thing you do, dear, it's the thing you leave undone which gives you a bit of heartache at the setting at the setting of the sun. -- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
- Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I. -- Ahmad Shamloo
- 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. -- Audrey Meadows
- When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone. -- Tori Amos
- Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together. -- Deepak Chopra
- I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people. -- Chief Joseph
- 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. -- Bono
- 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. -- David Carradine
- 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
- People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it. -- Junot Diaz
- I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone. -- Lois Lowry
- God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best and love us most and will not leave one thing undone for our eternal welfare. Should we not love them for it and honor them first? -- Ezra Taft Benson
- The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake. -- Rachel Cusk
- The Antichrist will be the infernal prince again for the third and last time... so many evils shall be committed by the means of Satan, the infernal Prince, that almost the entire world shall be found undone and desolate. Before these events happen, many rare birds will cry in the air, 'Now! Now!' and sometime later will vanish. -- Nostradamus
- What's done cannot be undone. -- William Shakespeare
- Most things remain undone. Glorious future! -- Ingvar Kamprad
- Everything can be undone, including success. -- Lynda Obst
- Without work men are utterly undone -- Nevil Shute
- Whatever can be done, can be undone. -- Robert Jordan
- What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone. -- Alexander Pope
- What is done can never be undone. -- Barbara Taylor Bradford
- Leaving is an act that cannot be undone. -- Nayomi Munaweera
- One more such victory and we are undone. -- Pyrrhus of Epirus
- Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone. -- Sir Fulke Greville
- When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. -- Laozi
- With every word unspoken each moment comes undone. -- Tarkan
- When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone. -- John Adams
- Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone. -- Simon Van Booy
- For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain -- Adam Lindsay Gordon
- Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure. -- Victor LaValle
- ...the terrible crumple and blanch of a lie come undone... -- Ann Patchett
- The Way is ever without action, yet nothing is left undone. -- Laozi
- We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves. -- Julian Fellowes
- I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.] -- Plautus
- Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone. -- Ken Wilber
- Come poor, lost, undone sinner, come just as you are to Christ. -- George Whitefield
- Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite -- Clive Barker
- Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone. -- Laozi
- Even a bad idea executed is better than a good idea undone. -- Paul Arden
- Sometimes, things need to come undone for better things to come together. -- Amy Chan
- We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone. -- William James
- What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again -- Anne Frank
- The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone. -- Rae Armantrout
- Man is beginning to explore the galaxy. But how much remains undone on earth? -- Mikhail Gorbachev
- More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest. -- Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
- Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best. -- Voltaire
- The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone. -- Edward Young
- Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world. -- John Selden
- When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power. -- Madame de Stael
- Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. -- Judith Butler
- One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done. -- Aristotle
- What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again. -- Anne Frank
- Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone. -- Moliere
- It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style. -- Yigal Azrouel
- For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done. -- Baltasar Gracian
- When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- No single movie or event makes or breaks your career. Everything can be undone, including success. -- Lynda Obst
- Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone. -- Susan Mitchell
- It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality. -- Brad Meltzer
- A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. -- T. S. Eliot
- I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone. -- Bill Nighy
- What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next... It is still unwritten. -- Mitch Albom
- A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something. -- Marcus Aurelius
- The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something -- Marcus Aurelius
- Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone. -- Khaled Hosseini
- The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do." -- Horace
- Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone. -- Paul Simon
- Never do an evil act just because it is trivial; never leave a good act undone just because it's small. -- Liu Bei
- Once the buttons are undone, you know how it'll all end. It's all in the game, there are no miracles. -- Gao Xingjian
- I was undone by my Auxiliary; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without Dependance on him. -- Gertrude Stein
- Good works are continually being undone by the tons of hatred and anger which are being poured out on the world. -- Swami Vivekananda
- A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants. -- Doris Lessing
- What power has love but forgiveness?In other wordsby its interventionwhat has been donecan be undone.What good is it otherwise~? -- William Carlos Williams
- The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one. -- Peter Gabriel
- Leaders spend time reviewing their mistakes rather than having fantasies over their achievements! They look for every way to do the undone! -- Israelmore Ayivor
- If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering. -- Laozi
- You're so young, you can't know the meaning of true regret. It's never what you've done, love, it's what you've left undone. -- Tessa Dare
- Tightly held by rocksThrough winter, the ice todayBegins to come undone:A way-seeker also is the water,Melting, murmuring from the moss. -- Saigy?
- To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. -- John Hall Gladstone
- We pay Karma not only for the evil we do but also for the good left undone, being able to do it. -- Samael Aun Weor
- As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished. -- Jose Saramago
- At work you worry over the family at home. At home you fret over work left undone. Behold the working woman's stress. -- Elaine A. Cannon
- 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
- Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone. -- Isobelle Carmody
- The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. -- Gerda Lerner
- True leaders spend time reviewing their mistakes rather than having fantasies over their achievements! They look for every way to do the undone! -- Israelmore Ayivor
- And our desire to knowEach other and desertEach other for newCenters of meaning so thatThe boundaries may reignAnd in doing so be undone. -- Rob Schlegel
- Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted. -- Brennan Manning
- 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
- Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked. -- William Butler Yeats
- A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone. -- Benjamin Whichcote
- Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself. -- Gautama Buddha
- What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise? -- William Carlos Williams
- Tightly held by rocksThrough winter, the ice todayBegins to come undone:A way-seeker also is the water,Melting, murmuring from the moss. -- Saigy?
- What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads. -- Robert Jordan
- Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone. -- Gautama Buddha
- Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone. -- Gautama Buddha
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