Lewis Carroll Quotes

You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

I can't go back and change how many tackles I had, how many picks. What I've done is what I've done.

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.

From thinking proceeds speaking; thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous!

It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?

Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

Thoughts can be revised. Deeds cannot.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

I'll teach my kids right from wrong, but I'm never going to teach them that they can't have fun. They'll make mistakes; they'll do things they regret, like we all have.

I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

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.

I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.