Howard Pyle Quotes

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

You can't regret anything - it's over with.

There is no rewind button for life.

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

The words can not return.

But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.

What is done cannot be now amended.

There is no point in apportioning blame. What is done, is done.

History is history. What is done is done.

What's done can't be undone.

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

I can't go back and change how many tackles I had, how many picks. What I've done is what I've done.

As I settled down to sleep in that new bed in the dark city, I saw that it was too late now, too late for everything. I would not be given a second chance. In the hours when I woke, I have to tell you that this struck me almost with relief.

I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that?

The trouble with real life is, there's no reset button.

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded.

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

And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn't matter anymore.

There is no retracing our steps.

When it's over for a woman, it's over. You're not getting an appeal.

For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.

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

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