“When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.”
Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl
Referring to Doom 3, Quoted in John Carmack Biography http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Carmack_John.html.
“When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.”
Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl
“When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.”
Arthur Ransome book Swallowdale
Swallowdale (Chapter 8), 1931
“How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively?”
Walter E. Williams (1936) American economist, commentator, and academic
1980s, All It Takes is Guts: A Minority View (1987)
Context: How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people.
“Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Great Things Are Done
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1807-1809)
“When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.”
George Marshall (1880–1959) US military leader, Army Chief of Staff
As quoted in "George C. Marshall and the Marshall Plan: A Model of Transformational Diplomacy" (2005) by Tom Callahan http://web.archive.org/web/20050616023457/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/dc/rks/47848.htm
Lester B. Pearson (1897–1972) 14th Prime Minister of Canada
Memoirs, Volume Two
Source: NB: ghost-written post-mortem by Munro and Inglis
“When all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
[as quoted by Alfred E Neuman]”
Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer
Variant: When all is said and done, more is said than done.