It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
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The evidence of the emotions, save in cases where it has strong objective support, is really no evidence at all, for every recognizable emotion has its opposite, and if one points one way then another points the other way. Thus the familiar argument that there is an instinctive desire for immortality, and that this desire proves it to be a fact, becomes puerile when it is recalled that there is also a powerful and widespread fear of annihilation, and that this fear, on the same principle proves that there is nothing beyond the grave. Such childish proofs are typically theological, and they remain theological even when they are adduced by men who like to flatter themselves by believing that they are scientific gents...
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What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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A word once uttered can never be recalled.
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Even after death such deeds are remembered and recalled.
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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
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John 2:22:
After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
(NIV)
When therefore He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this. And so they believed and trusted and relied on the Scripture and the word (message) Jesus had spoken. [Ps. 16:10.](AMP)
When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
(KJV)
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The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
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What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
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Every great mistake has a half-way moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
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Drive carefully! Remember, it's not only a car that can be recalled by it's maker.
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[Bush recalled Mexican President Vicente Fox's visit to Washington just before September 11, saying he told Fox at that time,] the United States has no more important relationship in the world than with Mexico. ... I meant it then, and I mean it now.
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