Quotes About Communication

The word of a cat is not to be relied upon.

There can be no misunderstandings if there are no understandings at all.

Diplomacy may very well be the art of manipulating secrets. What would any negotiation come to, were not there secrets to either share or withhold?

Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.

I bit my tongue and sat through his detailed and strained explanation. Not for the first time, I realized he considered me slightly slow. My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

How much do you understand?' I demanded of her one afternoon. She cocked her head at me, met my gaze and demanded, 'How much do YOU understand?

Cats themselves may be very chatty, but they seem to resent it in anyone else. Cats like listeners.

We'd had a message from Just, the first to reach us in many a month. He and Hearth had left home almost three years ago. With youth's fine disregard for the concerns of their elders, they'd sent messages only sporadically.

Does anything feel worse than being angry with people you love?" "P. 307: Fitz to Chade

Thoughts were too fast for words and too complex. There was too much to say, more than anyone could ever say in a lifetime about even the simplest things.

It is my way, to speak directly. I do not mean to give offense by it. It has always seemed to me that honest words leave the least room for misunderstanding.

Sometimes it is easier to pull a knife out of a man than to ask him to forget words you have uttered.

For her part, she seemed totally unaware of how her eyes could meet mine and turn my tongue to leather in my mouth. No magic I possessed, no Skill, no Wit, was proof against the accidental touch of her hand against mine, nor could defend me against the awkwardness that overwhelmed me at the quirk of her smile.

It is a sense you do not possess, and hence I cannot explain it to you," she added condescendingly. "Imagine trying to explain a sense of smell to someone who had none. What sounds like an arbitrary, almost mystic ability is no different from smelling apple blossoms in the dark.

Sometimes," he observed obliquely, "you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect."" "p. 267: Chade to Fitz

And while you're 'hearing' all this vital gossip, I might point out to you that no wise man tells all he knows. And that he who carries tales has little else in his head...

She knew, with vast certainty, that she would never desire to be kissed by a man who had first asked her permission.

Sometimes you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect

Explanations had seldom worked between us. Trust had.

It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones.

I am too swift of tongue. But I think that is the best way to talk to a dragon.

It is difficult to insult the man you don't speak to.

I could do as my father did: that is, lift my eyes and meet her gaze and let nothing of what I was thinking show in my face.