Irreversible Action Quotes

Once on the tiger's back, we cannot be sure of picking the place to dismount.

Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

The die has been cast.

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

We are launched on a course from which there is no turning back: The overthrow of the Diem government.

You cant put the toothpaste back in the tube.

I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.

9/11 references are like Lay's potato chips...no Congress can make just one.

I've eaten a bag of Green apples. Boarded the train, there's no getting off

Man down is a song about a girl who has committed a murder that she regrets and is completely remorseful about.

Once a discovery has been published, there is no way of un-publishing it.

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.

But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

When you hang a man, you better look at him.

A man's head is not like a scallion, which will grow again if you cut it off; if you cut it off wrongly, then even if you want to correct your error, there is no way of doing it.

For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.

Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.