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

  Louise Erdrich

  Our Actions, Action, Seeds

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

  Swami Satchidananda

  Letting Go, Peace

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• Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

  Daniel Quinn

  Destiny, Men, People

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.80, Bantam

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• The first thing, the very very first thing, "Find out what your greatest characteristic is, your greatest undoing, your central characteristic of unconsciousness." Each one's is different. Somebody is sex-obsessed. In a country like India, where for centuries sex has been repressed, that has become almost a universal characteristic; everybody is obsessed with sex. Somebody is obsessed with anger, and somebody else is obsessed with greed. You have to watch which is your basic obsession.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Country, Sex, Greed

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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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• 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

  Children, Issues, Generations

  "The American Trinity" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 13, 2012.

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• 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

  Australia, Government, Progress

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• 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

  Heart, People, Evil

  "Peter Jackson's labor of love". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

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• After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's the only way we're going to survive. And now it's like we're undoing these very fragile institutions that were built after the First and Second World Wars that were about nations working on a kind of global diplomacy for our mutual benefit. And we're undoing them at such rapid-fire pace.

  Zoe Leonard

  War, Mutual Benefit, Fire

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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• [Donald Trump] has specified - he has specified a contract with his voters that range - that has a lot of things on it. It ranges everything from repealing Obamacare to backing out of trade deals to undoing all the executive actions.

  Hari Sreenivasan

  Obamacare, Voters, Action

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• 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

  Feelings, Brain, Diaries

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.32, Zillmann Publishing

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