John F. Kennedy Quotes

Even the Gods Can't Change History

The past can never be erased. It is always going to be there.

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.

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

If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.

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

Even God cannot change the past.

Even the Gods cannot change the past.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

Nobody can stop the progress of history.

Some things happen without you putting an effort, while some others things do not happen despite we wanting it to happen.

No matter what I say, people are going to have their opinions and there is nothing I can do about that.

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.

My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.

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

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 older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.

There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember.

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

We are tomorrow's past.

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

There is no past that we can bring back to us by the longing for it.

We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.