Sara Teasdale Quotes

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

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 cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

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

There's some bells you can't unring.

Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

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

And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.

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.

Thoughts can be revised. Deeds cannot.

It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.

Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?

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

I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.

A life once spent is irrevocable. It will remain to be contemplated through eternity. If it be marked with sins, the marks will be indelible. If it has been a useless life, it can never be improved. Such it will stand forever and ever. The same may be said of each day.

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.

I can't take it back. I can't take anything back. So I don't regret it.

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

There is no rewind button for life.

What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.

The words can not return.