“ A word that has been said may be unsaid — it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 3.8K
“ 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- Copy
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“ Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth. ”
- Max Beerbohm- Copy
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“ We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about. ”
- John Oliver Killens- Copy
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“ The wise man will not look for the faults of others, nor for what they have done or left undone, but will look rather to his own misdeeds. ”
- The Dhammapada- Copy
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“ This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. ”
- Robert Bresson- Copy
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“ Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
- 406
“ It's not enough to just swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let it fly. ”
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias- Copy
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“ I begin to love this creature, and to anticipate her birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft- Copy
- 3.9K
“ It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it. ”
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias- Copy
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“ The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels. ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
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“ What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another! ”
- Laurence Sterne- Copy
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“ A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project. ”
- Abigail Van Buren- Copy
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“ 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.'. ”
- Sidney J. Harris- Copy
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“ 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 the nonessentials. ”
- Lin Yutang- Copy
- 156
“ We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. ”
- Book of Common Prayer- Copy
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