Jodi Picoult Quotes

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

Once you say something, it stays said. I apologized to anyone who may have been hurt by what I said, and I really meant it. I am absolutely not interested in hurting anyone, or being mean or insensitive.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

All big changes of the world come from words.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.

I wrote an apology for the harm I'd caused, but I also knew that an apology could never undo any of it.

Politicians need to realise that words have consequences.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back.

The tongue talkes at the heads cost.

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Speech is the mirror of action.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

I have to live with what I say, or don't say, tens of thousands of times a game.

I know words sometimes have consequences, but I try to choose the correct words every time.