Quotes About Communication

Hello. I want to speak to Mr. Jack Cunningham please. . . . Hello. Is this Mr. Cunningham's office? Mr. James Merivale speaking. . . . Out of town. . . . And when will he be back? . . . Hum." He strode back along the hall. "The damn scoundrel's out of town." "All the years I've known him," said the little lady in the round hat, "that has always been where he was.

When you talk you talk with the little lying tips of your tongues. You dont dare lay bare your real souls. . . . But now you must listen to me for the last time. . . . For the last time I say. . . . Come here waiter you too, lean over and look into the black pit of the soul of man. And Herf is bored. You are all bored, bored flies buzzing on the windowpane. You think the windowpane is the room. You dont know what there is deep black inside.

If only I still had faith in words.

The addition of the typewriter to the printing-press has given a new and horrible impetus to the spread of half-baked thought.

words are but pictures of our thoughts

What is distinctive and engaging about Jesus is not the novel things he says but the way he says things. He is creative not so much because he says things that are completely new but because he speaks with such authority.

Hundreds of stories of after-death communication can be found in two books, Hello from Heaven!, by Bill and Judy Guggenheim, and Love beyond Life, by Patricia Romanowski and Joel Martin. Says Judy: "After-death communications—ADCs—are spiritual gifts, intended to reignite our spiritual awareness of who we are and why we're here, and our awareness that there is no death, and that we have a love for another that is eternal.

There are two remaining speakers of Ayapaneco, an indigenous Mexican language; unfortunately, Manuel Segovia and Isidro Velázquez refuse to talk to one another, even though they are neighbors in their little village in the state of Tabasco.

Shouting is obvious; not talking to each other slips by.

The authors challenge that the marriage in which one cannot express disappointment has become an idol – The Thing that Cannot Be Questioned.

I realize that many dear followers of Christ have been taught that God only speaks to his sons and daughters through the Bible. The irony of that theology is this: that's not what the Bible teaches! The Scriptures are filled with stories of God speaking to his people—intimately, personally. Adam

Reading the prophets, says Yancey, is like hearing a lovers' quarrel through the apartment wall.

essential prayer is conversational. It

A friend who is a successful businessman explained to me how the rules of corporate loyalty have changed: "They expect you to be available anytime, day or night, because of this," he said, holding up his phone. "They can text you, call you 24/7. You are now considered to be available anytime, all the time. Those are the new rules." I

Fuzzy and unspecific prayers see fuzzy and unspecific results. God

Sex can be such a stark barometer for a marriage.

What does it say that you look like some sort of nut job when you turn your phone off?

many relationships fail for the insistence of treating others as problems to be solved, rather than as hearts to be known and loved.

They fear exposure, fear being seen as weak. That's why other men would rather work late than come home and talk to their wives or their children. They know what to do at work; they don't know what to do in their most important relationships.

Pressure nearly always guarantees you will have a hard time discerning what God is saying, if you hear anything at all. Pressure

Americans consume something like 10 hours of media a day,3over 100,000 words and 34 gigabytes—which would crash a laptop in a week.

We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable. [ The Berlin Crisis: Radio and Television Address to the American People (The White House, July 25, 1961)]

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.