#undoing

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing. ↗

— Alfred Stieglitz

#artist #i #i am #i can #may

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. ↗

— Horace Mann

#nothing #others #ourselves #undoing

The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing. ↗

— Thomas More

#eyes #heart #lies #light #undoing

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet. ↗

— Carl Rakosi

#i #love #poet #social #social work

Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#caused #colonial #come #engaged #europe

Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#once #our #prove #return #starts

Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time. ↗

— Kate Smith

#cream #ice #ice cream #me #milk

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#dust #every #forgetting #minute #mourning

The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#bringing #fall #incarnation #life #man

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#canyon #creates #expediency #life #love