Philippa Gregory Quotes

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah

Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

Everything that we say has consequences. I mean, words matter.

Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.

You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go!

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.

Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.

The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra responsible for what you say, whether it's in print or in front of a microphone, because those words can go out and kill or go out and plant seeds for peace.

To me, words are like stickpins. I can throw a word at you and it will bounce right off your body. But if I take that little stickpin and wire it to the back of an iron bar called human emotion, I can put that thing right through your heart.

I think I have to be aware of how much power words can have. And it makes me consider everything that I say before I say it, because you can really help a lot of people, or you can really, really mess things up.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean.

Thus, the word is more essential than cement. Thus, the word is not a small nothing. In this manner, noble people begin to grow, and their word will break cement.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not.

We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of each other's stones.

Every choice that we makes creates consequences, consequences in the lives of others and we experience them in ourselves, those same consequences, every choice that we make. And by the way the choices that you might think are the most important are not always the most important.

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.

Every problem solved is a problem made.