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  • Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

    Peace   War   Torches  
    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

    "Thoughts" by Jessie K. Freeman and Sarah S. B. Yule, (p. 83), 1901.
  • 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.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.

    Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1411, Delphi Classics
  • There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus and minus. It stands aloof from all the rest. ... It opens up a new province of knowledge, namely, the study of organisation; and it is in connection with organisation that a direction of time-flow and a distinction between doing and undoing appears for the first time.

  • There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from anothe quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing.

    Powerful   Men   People  
  • Live, or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are, I've assigned myself a new obligation. I'm going to stop undoing, deconstructing, I'm going to start building. What matters is what you are doing when you die... I want to be building.

    "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September, 2008.
  • Faeries are unaffected by alcohol, but much to her surprise—and the faeries’ undoing—they get very, very drunk on carbonation. Using copious amounts of Coke, she was able to discover a single faerie’s true name.

    Names   Drunk   Alcohol  
  • One of the things that has always been my undoing in politics is my readiness to do whatever job has to be done.

    Jobs   Done   Undoing  
    Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart
  • 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 (2016). “Dracula”, p.32, Zillmann Publishing
  • 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.

    Gay   Rights   Today  
    Inaugural address, 20 Jan. 1961, in Vital Speeches 1 Feb. 1961, p. 226
  • We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

    Undoing  
    "Thoughts" by Jessie K. Freeman and Sarah S. B. Yule, (p. 83), 1901.
  • We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution.

    Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.69, Shambhala Publications
  • 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.

    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we think is real. We live for it; we're enslaved by it. And it will ultimately be our undoing.

    Real   Thinking   World  
  • Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

    Habit   Undoing  
  • The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.

    "The World's Great Speeches". Book edited by Lewis Copeland and Lawrence Lamm, 1958.
  • My feminism has evolved way beyond self-empowerment and I see feminism as a path to peace on earth. The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy. I do believe. As men and women, together, I really long to feel my society evolve its understanding since we're one of the leaders in the f-word. I want us to grow our idea of feminism collectively and get both men and women involved in undoing patriarchy. It's huge. It's a huge job.

    Jobs   Believe   Men  
  • The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.

    Father   Son   Gun  
    Mohsin Hamid (2000). “Moth Smoke”, p.68, Penguin Books India
  • The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to enter society is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, no matter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who fails to treat a woman with anything less than utmost courtesy." The boys hung on his every word. He glanced in her direction. "I have met some incredibly unpleasant women, and I have never failed in this duty. But I must admit: your sister may prove my undoing.

    Boys   Men   Unjust  
  • I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists such as Freeman Dyson, one of the greatest physicists of the last hundred years, who has studied the question, who believes quite the opposite. The reason transnational action is so difficult is because the major problem with climate change is, A, that there is no consensus, and, B, that the economic cost is simply staggering. Reversing it completely might mean undoing the modern industrial economy.

    Believe   Mean   Thinking  
    "Obama Is Average". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.
  • Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

    Art   Mean   Haste  
    Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.123, Copper Canyon Press
  • What's a domestic partnership? Domestic partnership is not even a marriage, and there's a contract that involves, potentially, sexual and financial commitments to each other. In this case, however, the guy is also charging one dollar, and that is his undoing.

    "The Situation with Tucker Carlson", www.nbcnews.com. March 20, 2006.
  • Is there something wrong?” he asked. She gave a short negative motion with her head. And then words, so sweet, like a cool northern breeze blowing off the lake. “You could hold me now.” It was almost his undoing. “Ah baby.

    Baby   Sweet   Lakes  
    Maya Banks (2012). “Maya Banks KGI”, p.101, Penguin
  • The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

    Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.639, Candlewick Press
  • 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.

    Lying   Thinking   Law  
  • He pauses when he finishes undoing the last button, then closes his eyes. I can see the pain slashed across his face, and the sight tears at me. The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see.

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

  • Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

    Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.101, Routledge
  • 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.

    Country   Sex   Greed  
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