Quotes with undone

  • It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.

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  • Emily Brontë 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.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris 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 Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Bono 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
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Beck I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.
    Rolling Stone magazine, 1996
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Henrik Ibsen It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Igor Stravinsky Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Horace The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Stella Adler The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
    Stella Adler
    American actress and acting (1901 - 1992)
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