Source: It Couldn't Be Done, stanza 1, The Path to Home, p. 38 (1919).
“It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.”
“Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.”
As quoted in "She Drew Horses..." (2006) by Kelli Swan, p. 42
Disputed
“The things we've done, they were our ambitions, say 9 months ago.”
Asked for his greatest ambition. Pop Chronicles, Show 28 - The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming!: The U.S.A. is invaded by a wave of long-haired English rockers. Part 2 http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19783/m1/, ( 1964 https://archive.is/ty0cr, broadcast 1969 http://classicdjradioscrapbook.blogspot.com/2009/04/krla-pop-chronicles-program-1969-2-of-2.html).
Context: If you'd have asked me that question, 9 months ago, well, I would have been able to say, to come to America, to have a number one hit in America, and to play Carnegie Hall, to play the Palladium, to play in front of the Queen, and all that.... The things we've done, they were our ambitions, say 9 months ago.
“In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.”
Source: In Watermelon Sugar
“A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.”
Attributed to Andy Grove in: Ciarán Parker (2006) The Thinkers 50: The World's Most Influential Business. p. 70
New millennium
“Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.”
Section 5
Hainish Cycle, The Word for World Is Forest (1972)
2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Was sich thun lässt, so lange Philosophie und Poesie getrennt sind, ist gethan und vollendet. Also ist die Zeit nun da, beyde zu vereinigen.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 108
