H. R. Haldeman Quotes

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

There's some bells you can't unring.

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.

We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

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

If I missed once, I might never catch up again.

A loss is always a loss.

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

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

But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

I don't know that there is too far, actually. I think there's only too bad. If it's bad you've gone too far.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

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.

And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.

Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

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

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.

A little too late, is much too late.

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

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