“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.”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Constant Princess
“Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Constant Princess
“He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Constant Princess
“You have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Constant Princess
“War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Constant Princess
“They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Constant Princess
“True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of that is just agreement, and any ninny-in-waiting can agree.”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Constant Princess
“In Spain," indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy.”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Constant Princess
“We are both people of faith," he said quietly. "Our enemies should be the people who have no faith, neither in their God, nor in others, nor in themselves. The people who should face our crusade should be those who bring cruelty into the world for no reason but their own power. There is enough sin and wickedness to fight, without taking up arms against people who believe in a forgiving God and who try to lead a good life.”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Constant Princess
“I realize that I can laugh, that it is possible to be happy, that laughter and hope can come back to me.”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Constant Princess
“God does not make the way smooth for those He loves. He sends hardships to try them. Those that God loves the best are those who suffer the worst.”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Constant Princess
“Knowing that you do not know is to ask humbly, instead of tell arrogantly. That is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Constant Princess
“when i first saw him i thought he was as beautiful as a knight from the romances, like a troubadour, like a poet. I thought i could be like a lady in a tower and he could sing beneath my window and
persuade me to love him. But although he has the looks of a
poet he doesn't have the wit. I can never get more than two
words out of him, and i begin to feel that i demean myself in trying to please him.”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Constant Princess
“Then life taught me a harder lesson, beloved: it is better to forgive an enemy than destroy him.”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Constant Princess
“I am a child of the true religion and you are an infidel,’ she said, but with less conviction than she had ever felt before. ‘We are both people of faith,’ he said quietly. ‘Our enemies should be the people who have no faith, neither in their God, nor in others, nor in themselves. The people who should face our crusade should be those who bring cruelty into the world for no reason but their own power. There is enough sin and wickedness to fight, without taking up arms against people who believe in a forgiving God and who try to lead a good life.”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Constant Princess
“He could not have got through the Sierra Nevada if she had not been sending him men and digging teams to level the road for him. No one else could have driven a road through there. He would have trusted no one else to support him, to hold the kingdom together as he pushed forwards. She could have conquered the mountains for no one else; he was the only one that could have attracted her support. What looked like a remarkable unity of two calculating players was deceptive—it was their passion which they played out on the political stage. She was a great queen because that was how she could evoke his desire. He was a great general in order to match her. It was their love, their lust, which drove them; almost as much as God.”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Constant Princess
“I was born to be Queen of England and mother of the next King of England. I have to fulfill my destiny, it is my God-given destiny.”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Constant Princess
“She would not let it go. “I had thought to be Queen of England and see my son on the throne,” she repeated.”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Constant Princess
“And swore that whatever the obstacles before me, I should be Queen of England.”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Constant Princess
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“Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.”
― Teju Cole, quote from Open City
“We don’t seem to have any pins for the bandage. It’s not much use without one.” I turned back to the glass. “Can we get a pin in here?” “Turns out Hellequin’s a pussy,” Elijah sneered. “No pins?” I said to the mirror. “That’s okay, I’ve got one.” I grabbed a six-inch but incredibly thin blade from the tray and plunged it through the bandaged knee. “There we go. We can use that.” Elijah commenced screaming once more. I grabbed the hilt of the blade and pushed it further until the blade came out of the opposite side of the leg, cracking the bone as it moved. “Still think I’m a pussy?” I whispered.”
― Steve McHugh, quote from Born of Hatred
“Too many people would rather fight to the death to defend their bullhead positions. Tyrone was impressed whenever someone changed their mind. It meant acting on reason, and with reason came self-improvement.”
― Jack Kilborn, quote from Trapped
“There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.”
― Peter Høeg, quote from Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow
“It seems that the one characteristic most closely correlated with success in life, which has persisted over the decades, is the ability to delay gratification.”
― Michio Kaku, quote from The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
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