Quotes About Communication

It might be a nice world if nobody ever said a disagreeable thing, but it would be a dangerous one

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them

Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.

The trouble is you and Mrs Lynde don't understand each other. That is always what is wrong when people don't like each other. - Anne Shirley

Jos voitte istua toisen ihmisen seurassa vaiti puoli tuntia ja tuntea olonne mukavaksi, teistä ja tuosta ihmisestä voi tulla ystävät. Jos ette voi, teistä ei tule koskaan ystäviä, eikä teidän kannata tuhlata aikaa yrittämiseen.

Perry says that he feels like going to Priest Pond and knocking the daylights out of Great-Aunt Nancy. I told him he must not talk like that about my family, and anyhow I don't see how knocking the daylights out of Great-Aunt Nancy would make her change her opinion about me...(I wonder what daylights are and how you knock them out of people.)

So you can, girl, if you use your ears. I only wanted you to be comfortable. You look so durned uncomfortable, standing there. Well, I'LL sit anyway. Norman accordingly sat down in the very place John Meredith had once sat. The contrast was so ludicrous that Rosemary was afraid she would go off into a peal of hysterical laughter over it. Norman cast his hat aside, placed his huge, red hands on his knees, and looked up at her with his eyes a-twinkle. Come, girl, don't be so stiff

There go more italics! But a few italics really do relieve your feelings.

She was always at her best with him, with a delightful feeling of being understood. To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

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There's one thing plain to be seen, Anne," said Marilla, "and that is that your fall off the Barry roof hasn't injured your tongue at all.

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

You talk in the language of the violets.

But he wasn't talking to me,' protested Anne. 'He was talking to God and he didn't seem to be very much interested in it, either. I think he thought God was too far off to make it worth while.

Pero si una tiene ideas grandes, necesita palabras largas para expresarlas, ¿no cree?

Now, don't be looking I-told-you-so, Matthew. That's bad enough in a woman, but it isn't to be endured in a man.

Perhaps she thought all the more and dreamed as much as ever, but she certainly talked less.

In two more years I'll be really grown up. It's a great comfort to think that I'll be able to use big words then without being laughed at." "Ruby

In a 'make-believe' assembly of choice spirits everybody says just the thing you want her to say and so gives you the chance to say just what you want to say.

They quarreled once or twice, for they was both high-sperrited. But Mistress Selwyn says to me once, says she, laughing in that pretty way of hers, 'I felt dreadful when John and I quarreled, but underneath it all I was very happy because I had such a nice husband to quarrel with and make it up with.

This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.

There's one thing plain to be seen, Anne, said Marilla, and that is that your fall off the Barry roof hasn't injured your tongue at all.

I'm good at asking questions, Marilla." "I believe you" was Marilla's emphatic comment.

Then we'll go up the road and tell the good news to the others.