Quotes About Communication

It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.

It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

I must've missed this part in the parenting handbook. Chapter 12: When fleeing from your mob boss husband, be sure to communicate the details of your escape with your nine-year-old son early and often so that you don't stunt his psycho-emotional development. Also, always bring snacks to the movies.

What did he do to make you leave?" she asks. "If you don't mind me prying." "He married me," I say softly.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

It is astonishing what power words have over men.

For the maintenance of peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots.

Un croquis vaut mieux quun long discours.Fr., A picture is worth a thousand words.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.

It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

You write to me that it's impossible; the word is not French.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets..

Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours (A good sketch is better than a long speech)

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.