Undone Quotes

There`s something to do with the Federal Reserve that Lincoln did, Kennedy did and Reagan tried. I can`t remember what it was. My dad told me about it. Everyone who did this particular thing that would have fixed the economy got undone. Anyway, I`ll end up dead if I keep talking.

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.

So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

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.

It was kind of tough because at that age you`re not aware of your tallness. I`m still not, really. Many times people would react to the fact that I looked different and I would think that there was something wrong with me -- that maybe one of my short buttons was undone or something. It took 20 or 30 years to get used to it.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists` side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys.

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.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.

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.

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone