Quotes About Listening

Let him hear me. If [god] ever listened to poor colored women, the world would be a different place.

As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my folks.

There is a way that the men speak to women that reminds me too much of Pa. They listen just long enough to issue instructions. They don't even look at women when women are speaking. They look at the ground and bend their heads toward the ground.

He is a very sensitive soul who hears what isn't said as clearly as what is.

If he [God] ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you.

Ain't no way to read the bible and not think God white, she say. Then she sigh. When I found out I thought God was white, and a man, I lost interest. You mad cause he don't seem to listen to your prayers. Humph! Do the mayor listen to anything colored say? Ask Sofia, she say. But I don't have to ast Sofia. I know white people never listen to colored, period. If they do, they only listen long enough to be able. to tell you what to do.

a very sensitive soul who hears what isn't said as clearly as what is.

THEY DO NOT WANT to hear what their children suffer. They've made the telling of the suffering itself taboo.

Or are they saying simply that they can not and will not be bothered to listen to what is said about an accepted tradition of which they are a part, that has gone on, as far as they know, forever?

How wearying to think nobody in this courtroom has ever listened to them. I see each one of them as the little child my father was always so concerned about, screaming her terror eternally into her own ear.

There is a way that the men speak to women that reminds me too much of Pa. They listen just long enough to issue instructions. They don't even look at women when women are speaking.

Anyone who wants to understand something of the elemental nature of our history should try to walk through it, should listen for the natural sounds our ancestors heard, smell the hedgerow honeysuckle and the pungent, grassy, milky stink of cowshit, look up and know something of shifts in the weather and the transit of the seasons and feel the earth that once was grained into their hands.

cuando el público se cruza de brazos, no sólo tiene más pensamientos negativos sobre el conferenciante, sino que además presta menos atención a lo que se dice. Es por este motivo que los centros de formación deberían tener sillas con brazos que permitieran a los asistentes dejar los brazos descruzados.

I taught more than one hundred kids today—and some of them were listening

Think twice before you speak to a friend in need

BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Who asked your opinion?' 'A man who doesn't want opinions should keep his own mouth shut.

Um homem que não quer opiniões deveria manter a boca fechada.

?le jej z oczu patrzy - wyszepta?a, kiedy zyska?a pewno??, ?e nikt ich nie us?yszy. - Owszem. - I ksi??? si? jej s?ucha. - Owszem. - I trafi?a tu przed nami. - Owszem. [...] Ojciec Yarvi spojrza? na ni? z kwa?n? min?. - A widzisz? Jednak znasz si? na dyplomacji.

A man who doesn't want opinions should keep his own mouth shut.

There was no magic to it. She simply listened, observed, and made sure she never spoke until she knew what she was speaking of. Knowledge is the root of power, after all.

tu alma te dice: ¡Escúchame atentamente! Nada del exterior te hará feliz. Te estoy intentando avisar. Pero si sigues participando en este juego, voy a dejar de hacerlo y volverás a dormirte. En este caso te veré cuando tu vida se acabe…

9º MANDAMIENTO: ESCUCHA A TU CUERPO Es de vital importancia realizar el menor volumen de entrenamiento necesario para conseguir tu objetivo. Cuando

After he pulled the trigger, Bing sat with the old man and listened to the rain rattle off the roof of the garage, while John Partridge sprawled on the floor, one foot twitching and a urine stain spreading across the front of his pants. Bing had sat until his mother entered the garage and began to scream. Then it had been her turn—although not for the nail gun.