"Words have weight, something once said cannot be……" — Philippa Gregory
"Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against."
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101 Quotes by Philippa Gregory
Philippa Gregory has 101 quotes on this site.
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To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.
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Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.
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I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.
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I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing…
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Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.
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There are many sorts of love. And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have…
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Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical…
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For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.
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Jane," I said quietly. She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer. "Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I…
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I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him,…
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Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
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The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.
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More Cannot Know Quotes
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know…
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We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.
— Claude Shannon
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What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.
— Bertrand Russell
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Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do…
— Marianne Williamson
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Parents of handicapped children are occasionally embarrassed or hurt by others who awkwardly express sympathy but cannot know or appreciate…
— James E. Faust
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Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot…
— Henri Poincare
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We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot…
— Jules Renard
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Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
— Seneca the Younger
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If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are…
— John B. S. Haldane
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I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be…
— Bertrand Russell
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It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The…
— John Steinbeck
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There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ...…
— Roger Bacon
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