Quotes About Communication

You are being aimed at. You are the target of our words. You serve as targets. That is a metaphor. You serve as the target of our metaphors. You serve as metaphors. ["Offending the Audience"]

Ljudi ovdašnji su u ovom ratu postali onoliko zli koliko to oni nisu. A vi koji ste ovamo došli ste ovim ratom postali baš toliko zli koliko i jeste. Gluvo-slepi – ali, nažalost, ne i nemi, nego naprotiv, baš govorljivi.

I no longer understand anything literally. I cannot wait until I wake up, whereas earlier I could not wait to fall asleep. I have been made to speak. I have been sentenced to reality. - Do you hear it? (Silence.) Can you hear? (Silence.) Psst. (Silence.)

Wat ik ooit voor mezelf heb gedacht is niets; ik ben niet meer dan wat me gelukt is tegen jullie te zeggen.

En otras ocasiones ella hacía con sus relatos planes para el futuro: <>. Ahora callaba. Intentó conmoverla con recuerdos comunes, pero tampoco respondió a ellos. Las antiguas bromas, que siempre la hacían reír, la dejaron impertérrita. ¡No quería seguir los juegos tácitamente acordados!

En otras ocasiones ella hacía con sus relatos planes para el futuro: «Un día iré contigo a ese restaurante; a esa costa viajaremos juntos la próxima vez». Ahora callaba. Intentó conmoverla con recuerdos comunes, pero tampoco respondió a ellos. Las antiguas bromas, que siempre la hacían reír, la dejaron impertérrita. ¡No quería seguir los juegos tácitamente acordados!

I left this conversation hours ago, but somehow my mouth is still moving, words are still forming, and none have seemed to offend. Amazing, the mind. My mind, I mean. Not hers.

Who's calling? Don't insult me like that, the voice says. I stop. Was I just insulting?

Arnie pulls at my T-shirt. I shove his hand away. He pushes down the toilet handle and the bathroom fills with that flush sound. Tucker says, You taking a dump? No. Liar. I heard the flush. You were taking a dump. But I... I just wish you'd admit it. We got to be honest with each other. But... I heard the flush, Gilbert. You can't fool Tucker Van Dyke.

I was fine till the finger, I say to myself, as I shift to reverse. You don't flip off Gilbert Grape. Let that be known.

Usually I said nothing at all; as a waiguoren I was often most comfortable when I was listening.

I was fighting fire with fire, and I responded to propaganda with more of the same.

Wang Chaosu shouted everything at me, the way many Americans do when they meet foreigners with bad English.

In Manchuria, I had learned one important fact about propaganda: the key information isn't what you put in, but what you leave out.

The words of history are also the words of war.

I felt a sense of brotherhood with anybody who peddled stories... A crowd had gathered around one man who sold pamphlets. He was in his early twenties, and you could tell from his appearance - dark skin, dirty collar, cheap blue suit - that he was a migrant. But he spoke beautifully, holding the crowd with his words... He sold pamphlets not because he needed to, but because the pamphlets deserved to be sold.

Pastors and Bible teachers go about their work in communal settings, where they listen to as well as deliver sermons, hear as well as speak, and gain biblical insights from their parishioners as much as they pass them on.

It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.

Our conversation with God should be utterly free and familiar, because God is the only person who will never, ever misunderstand us and never, ever reject us (hate us, ignore us, or be indifferent to us). These are the tow reasons we hid from other people, even our friends, even our parents, and the tow reasons we should never hide from God.

Those who know, do not say; those who say, do not know.

We pray, not simply as some solitary self-improvement program, but because we have been addressed by God. Prayer is a response to a prior divine invitation.

Not all prayer is in words, because not all conversation is in words.

Our conversation with God should be utterly free and familiar, because God is the only person who will never, ever misunderstand us and never, ever reject us (hate us, ignore us, or be indifferent to us).

Angels are made of pure spirit (mind and will) without matter, without bodies. Therefore they must communicate by mental telepathy.