Terry Pratchett Quotes

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Whatever your purpose is that leads you to the point of no return, that's where you go.

I knew it was all or nothing.

There is no turning back.

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

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

Is that your final answer?

At one point he decided enough was enough.

Those who mill around at the crossroads of history do so at their own peril.

One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.

Any time you make a change, and a major change, as you try to establish something, there's a lot of question marks there on what's going to happen moving forward.

When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.

If the right thing came along at the right time, it would be an enormous kind of challenge.

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell.

It was time to come up here and retire with my wonderful husband, and my children and my grandchildren, and make that change. I'm not good at hanging on. When I make a decision to cut it off, I have to cut it off completely. I'm not good at, "Oh, I'll stick around and consult a little bit." I'm not good at that and I don't want to do that. I don't think you get anywhere doing that. I mean, I don't, although other people might. But that's not my personality. It's not my id. I have to make the break and be a good sport and adjust to it.

The die has been cast.

As far as implying that we know what we're doing, that we have perspective enough - by diving fully into something it requires a lot of denial, and denial is always dangerous even if all of your intentions are good and all your preparations are good. When you make a choice you're denying an infinite number of other choices.