Quotes About Communication

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things

Did you know the pen is stronger than the knife: they can kill you once but they can't kill you twice.

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. . . . The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real

Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed that can make life a garden.

I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

When life life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.

For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.

Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies.

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words