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Quotes About Communication

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
~ Harry S Truman
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.
~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
~ Adolf Hitler
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
~ Tacitus
For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and sound like idiots.
~ Matt Damon
We can say what we like without favour or fear and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear
~ Peter Weiss
Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
~ Franz Grillparzer
If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.
~ Hugh Prather
Do you believe in telepathy? No? Then what are you doing when you pray?
~ Unknown
hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words
~ Gregory David Roberts
I suffer from two phobias: 1) Phobia-Phobia, the fear that you're unable to get scared, and 2) Xylophataquieopiaphobia, the fear of not pronouncing words correctly.
~ Brad Stine
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.
~ Mallory Ortberg
You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.
~ Nicole Kidman
Wink and shut their apprehensions up.
~ John Marston
Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.
~ Camille Claudel
The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.
~ David Cronenberg
Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.
~ Budd Schulberg
When you rule in a culture of fear, you're not getting the best out of people.
~ Sherry Lansing
Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.
~ Hugh Prather
There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.
~ John Updike
What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
~ Anne Carson
Don't repackage your fear and try to sell it to me as indifference.
~ Ron Currie Jr.