Quotes About Communication

Yes, you do. You get everything you want out of people. I don't know how you do it, but you are a born wheedler. Thank you. Fire away.

He was tired of books, and found people so interesting now

But I think girls ought to show when they disapprove of young men, and how can they do it except by their manners? Preaching does not do any good, as I know to my sorrow, since I've had Teddy to manage; but there are many little ways in which I can influence him without a word, and I say we ought to do it to others if we can.

How stupid you are child! He meant you of course. Did he? And Jo opened her eyes as if the thought had never occurred to her before.

Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

Ah, but it wasn't all right, and Jo did mind, for while the curly head lay on her arm a minute after her hard answer, she felt as if she had stabbed her dearest friend, and when he left her without a look behind him, she knew that the boy Laurie never would come again.

Amo-te desde que te conheço, Jo; não o consigo evitar, tens sido tão boa para mim. Tentei demonstrar-to, mas não me deixaste; tens mesmo de ouvir e dar-me uma resposta, pois não posso continuar assim durante mais tempo.

My sister Beth is a very fastidious girl, when she likes to be, said Amy, well pleased at Beth's success. She meant `fascinating', but as Grace didn't know the exact meaning of either word, fastidious sounded well and made a good impression.

Kate looked surprised, but said nothing and stood looking at the fire as if turning the matter over in her mind and trying to answer the question she was too polite to ask—how could they have a grandmother and know so little about her?

I seldom ask questions of men, as they are not fond of gossip.

A long night and a happy day had passed. All had been told...

If people care more for my clothes than they do for me, I don't wish to see them.

She tore the letter to atoms.

She silently excepted his challenge to the tournament so often held between man and woman- a tournament where the keen tongue is the lance, pride the shield, passion the fiery steed, and the hardest heart the winner of the prize.

Publishers now act as if writing is the same as typing.

We push aside work that takes long—novels, poetry collections, biographies, articles, memoirs—to write e-mail messages that take little time while complaining we have no time to write.

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.

While Rockefeller communicated with his subordinates in genteel fashion, discussing muscular tactics with unctuous euphemisms, his colleagues were less restrained and gloried in their brutal shenanigans.

when prohibited from talking about money directly to Rockefeller, Harper circumvented the ban by praying aloud for money in his presence.

I never undertake to instruct the man who asks me questions.

Rockefeller's partners "seldom knew what he was thinking but he always knew what we were thinking.

I remember how fascinated I was with his letters

This transaction required Bill's signature, but John's relations with his father were so uneasy that he had to ask brother Frank and Pierson Briggs to act as intermediaries.