Moshe Sharett Quotes

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

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

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.

This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid.

Even the Gods Can't Change History

This door's wide-open now. It's going to happen whether you like it or not.

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

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

It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.

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

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

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.

Fate will find a way.

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

Time and events bring out the truth, but they also deal a mortal blow.

As certain as death and taxes.

What can be done, will be done. Like a natural force technology is impossible to hold back.

There's some bells you can't unring.

It's just scary to think how fast everything is rolling, and you can't stop it.

When there's a firestorm going on around you, you have very little idea of what's next.

Sometimes I'll make a statement they'll say, this is the end. This is the end! Right? This is the end. It's finally going to happen.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.