Catherine Ryan Hyde Quotes

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

I just don't think it's true that people can't do something else after they've done something that seems so permanent.

You don't get many do-overs in life.

Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.

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.

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

There's some bells you can't unring.

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

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

And whatever I do will become forever what I'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.

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

I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision.

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

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.

I don't want to make the wrong mistake.

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

Letting the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than putting it back.

He who decides in haste repents in haste.

We don’t get to replay history.

Tattoos are a down payment on a future regret.

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