Anya Seton Quotes

There is no turning back.

It's the only way I think I'm ever going to walk away from the game, is to go ahead and say I'm going to, and then I've got to. There's no turning back now - win, lose or draw.

I can only go one way, I've not got a reverse gear.

But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.

If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

Once you go down a road, you take it through to the end.

There is no appeal this side of Heaven.

Life's all about choices. Everyone's destination is the same; only the paths are different.

I've burnt my boats, and there they are - smouldering in public view.

There's no going back. So we might as well get on with things.

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

Make certain decisions only once.

Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.

When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way.

And once begun, change cannot be reversed.

The die has been cast.

It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.

I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that?

There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance.

The only certainty life contains is death.

Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.