Steve Erickson

Downton Abbey' is a pageant, a cavalcade of a time when being born right is the first and most irrevocable career move, and in which an older order - whose passing 'Downton's' creator, Julian Fellowes, clearly mourns - is submerging in icy seas as surely as a grand and extravagant ocean liner.

American Novelist

Adoniram Judson

A life once spent is irrevocable. It will remain to be contemplated through eternity. If it be marked with sins, the marks will be indelible. If it has been a useless life, it can never be improved. Such it will stand forever and ever. The same may be said of each day.

American Clergyman

John Quincy Adams

The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other.

American President

Mary Calderone

Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.

American Scientist

Tomas Transtromer

It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.

Swedish Writer

James Gray

The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.

American Director

Ernie Fletcher

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

American Politician

James Earl Jones

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

American Actor

‘Irrevocable’ highlights the permanency of a choice, suggesting it's important to be sure before deciding.

Final Decisions

‘Irrevocable’ implies that actions have serious, lasting impacts that can't be reversed.

Serious Consequences

‘Irrevocable’ can convey a sense of loss or regret for actions that cannot be taken back.

Emotional Weight

In legal contexts, 'irrevocable' means an agreement or document is legally binding forever.

Legal Finality

Before agreeing to irrevocable terms in a contract, understand they’re not just unchangeable; they're legally enforceable.

Care with Contracts

 that it has an authority, a gravity if you will. And when countries build infrastructure like a highway or a railway or an electricity grid something really basic you know, that they share with each other it winds up being something that is almost a irrevocable bond. It's obviously positive sum.

Mapping the Future of...

 Or you can just have an incredibly embarrassing day at work. Or you can have your last day at work. And this doesn't even touch on the really profound regrets of a life. Because of course, sometimes we do make decisions that have irrevocable and terrible consequences,