"Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves……" — Margaret George

"Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss."

— Margaret George

All Quotes Angry Quotes Apologizes Quotes Apologizing Quotes Blurts Quotes Carved Quotes Effort Quotes Efforts Quotes Forever Quotes Forget Quotes Keep Quotes Keep Peace Quotes Lasting Quotes Lasting Power Quotes Later Quotes Lingers Quotes Lingers Forever Quotes Lodged Quotes Lose Quotes Lost Quotes Mind Quotes Minds Quotes Monument Quotes Monuments Quotes Moss Quotes Moths Quotes Oh Quotes Once Quotes Once Spoken Quotes Our Efforts Quotes Our Minds Quotes Ourselves When Quotes Out Quotes Peace Quotes Persist Quotes Persists Quotes Power Quotes Preserve Quotes Preserve Them Quotes Pretend Quotes Someone Quotes Something Quotes Spite Quotes Spoken Quotes Spoken Word Quotes Stone Quotes Stone Monuments Quotes Stones Quotes Strange Quotes Such Quotes Tell Quotes Them Quotes Vanish Quotes Water Quotes We Pretend Quotes We Tell Quotes When Someone Quotes Word Quotes Words Quotes Words Carved Quotes

28 Quotes by Margaret George

Margaret George has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

See all 28 quotes by Margaret George »

More All Quotes

This quote is filed under All Quotes, one of 128,558 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally… — Hannah Arendt
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our… — Hannah Arendt
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all… — Hannah Arendt
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes… — Hannah Arendt
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of… — Hannah Arendt
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and… — Hannah Arendt
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is… — Pietro Aretino
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle

See all 128,558 All Quotes »