George Seldes Quotes

Even the Gods cannot change the past.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Even God cannot change the past.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

Some things happen without you putting an effort, while some others things do not happen despite we wanting it to happen.

When it's your turn, it's your turn. That's just the way it is.

The past can never be erased. It is always going to be there.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

When it's your time, it is your time.

We can not escape history.

History cannot be reversed.

Some things you can't control.

There are some things in the world we can't change.

At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.

There is no turning back.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.