Quotes About Listening

Occasionally she looked at Anne, seemed on the point of saying something, then shook her head and buttoned up her mouth.

Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.

Nothing new has ever happened to a son of Adam, she said. Everything has already been lived and everything has already been told. If only we listened to the stories.

Nothing new has ever happened to aq son of Adam, she said. Everything has already been lived and everything has already been told. If only we listened to the stories.

We try to reach the heart of God without listening to the Word of God.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening. I never learned anything while I was talking.

I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.

He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.

Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.--Augustus McCrae

figure the reason you don't have much to say is you probably never met a man who liked to hear a woman talk.

All night Famous Shoes sat listening. He heard the plover cry several more times, and rejoiced. Men lied often, but the plover only lied when it had eggs to protect; if the plover's nest was near, then water, too, was near. In the morning they could drink.

I said we oughta get married," Louisa said loudly. "What I like about you is you're quiet. Jim talked every second that he didn't have a whiskey bottle in his mouth. I got tired of listening. Also, you're skinny. If you don't last, you'll be easy to bury. I've buried enough husbands to take such things into account. What do you say?

She tries to figure out how to say it so he hears her.

As she reads, I listen to her

make this all work." "My grandfather used to say that most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They

being able to listen to unrepeatable secrets, wishes, and desires wasn't as wonderful as it seemed...being aware of what other people felt at every moment would come to cause him a lot of headaches, and huge disappointments in love.

A Lupita le llevó muchos años de encierro descubrir que uno escucha mejor cuando está en silencio y que está mucho más acompañado en la soledad.

La niña, con asombro, descubrió que el eco le regresaba las palabras. La abuela le explicó que por eso es tan importante honrar a la palabra. Cada sonido que emitimos navega por los aires, pero siempre viene de regreso a nosotros.

Dicen que el sordo no oye, pero compone. Tal vez Nacha sólo escuchó las palabras que todos callaron.

I dare you to ask him," Frank said. The other boys were listening. Almanzo put his hands in his pockets and said: "I'd just as lief ask him if I wanted to." "Yah, you're scared!" Frank jeered. "Double dare! Double dare!

A big boy nine years old is old enough to remember to mind,' he said. 'There's a good reason for what I tell you to do,' he said, 'and if you'll do as you're told, no harm will come to you.'" "Yes

I know why your gift was deaf to me ~ Dillon

There are some stories, some memories, that if you tell them after dark, they seem to gain weight, substance, as if there are things listening, waiting to hear themselves spoken of again. Words have power. But even thinking about them is sometimes enough to make the air in a room heavy.

Talking to children is like testifying in court, answer just what's asked, don't elaborate, and don't volunteer information.