Omar Khayyam Quotes

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.

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

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.

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

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

Even God cannot change the past.

There's some bells you can't unring.

This is one doodle that can't be un-did, Homeskillet.

...life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch. Saphira, from "Eragon

Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?

'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

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

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

A day may sink or save a realm.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

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