Edward Rutherfurd Quotes

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

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

It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

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

After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.

What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. You’re left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on, or not. But if you go on, it’s knowing you carry your scars with you.

What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.

The words can not return.

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is.

Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

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.

Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.

When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit.

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--

You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.