It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
That's sort of the amazing thing about writing something down and then having it printed and published - it's frozen. It's there. It's set. It's in ink. It's done. Nothing changes it.
One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.
Some people have a mandate that you can't change.
We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
What exists, exists. You cannot change that.
Even God cannot change the past.
You can't shape it. You can't change it. Your life is what it is.
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.
I don't believe in changing the unchangeable.
The 'Artful Tommy' will never change - and perhaps shouldn't.