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Quotes About Communication

nothing is more indicative of a war going badly than valiant propaganda ... Anything officially denied was probably a fact.
~ Paul Theroux
I really hate it when a teacher has to show that she isn't behind the times by using some expression which sounds so up-to-date you know for sure she's behind the times.
~ Paul Zindel
It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet.
~ Paul Zindel
Maybe life is just carrying news. Surviving to carry the news. Maybe we have just one message, and it is delivered to us when we are born and we are never sure what it says; it may have nothing to do with us personally but it must be carried by hand through a life, all the way, and at the end handed over, sealed. He
~ Paulette Jiles
Outside, as she passed the kitchen window, she watched her breath appear before her in the lamplight and then it died away in moist clouds. This was the smoke of her internal fire and her soul. Every breath was a letter to the world. These she mailed into the cold air leaning back with pursed lips to send it upward.
~ Paulette Jiles
Captain Kidd said, It has been said by authorities that the law should apply the same to the king and to the peasant both, it should be written out and placed in the city square for all to see, it should be written simply and in the language of the common people, lest the people grow weary of their burdens. The young man tipped his head toward the Captain with an odd look on his face, It was a kind of longing, a kind of hope. Who said that? Hammurabi.
~ Paulette Jiles
This is writing. This is printing. This tells us of all the things we ought to know in the world. And also that we ought to want to know.
~ Paulette Jiles
The hardest thing was simply to speak.
~ Pauline Réage
True, she did speak as she was being tortured, but can moans and cries be classed as words? Besides, they often stilled her by gagging.
~ Pauline Réage
there's one thing anyway I want you to tell her, and tell her right away, and that is that I'm in love with her." "Is that true?
~ Pauline Réage
I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
~ Unknown
The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don't talk anymore, they don't sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.
~ Paulo Coelho
But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.
~ Paulo Coelho
The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.
~ Paulo Coelho
It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil, said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
~ Paulo Coelho
Don't explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you
~ Paulo Coelho
This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there.
~ Paulo Coelho
Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.
~ Paulo Coelho
Dreams are the language of God.
~ Paulo Coelho
Her silence was the blank space between the words.
~ Paulo Coelho
of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.
~ Paulo Coelho
That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.
~ Paulo Coelho
Insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there. We've all felt that. And all of us, one way or another, are insane.
~ Paulo Coelho
Believe that if Allah wants you to know something, someone will tell you.
~ Paulo Coelho