Quotes About Communication

People lack the talent of listening. They miss the experience of a fascinating law of nature: The moment when a narrator is captivated by his own story.

We trust the text not because it is "true" in the sense of fact, but because in its infinite variety it points to the truth and communicates truth because it comes from the truth which

This relationship among author, text, and reader is known in the literary trade as

Balancing concealment and exposure is one of the trickiest problems in personal relations and in social life at large.

All men lie. That's how they operate. if you want a longterm relationship with a man you've got to understand it's going to be with a liar. It's in their nature - it's genetic, it's a bloody Darwinian acquired characteristic for survival, OK? They tell you what they want you to hear.

adult language. Twang…heh, heh,

Good sex is one-percent of the relationship. bad sex is 99%.

Reach out, call your family members, if you have children, call them right now.

Media are epistemologies. Every medium implies a particular way of thinking about things, influences to great extent what things we will think about, and how we will think about them.

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.

Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one anotherís speech.”

That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

So Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, “What have you done to me? Why didnít you tell me she was your wife?

When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.

“Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked. “There, in the tent,” he replied.

And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?

When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned home.

Early the next morning Abimelech got up and summoned all his servants; and when he described to them all that had happened, the men were terrified.

Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought such tremendous guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done.”

Abimelech replied, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, so I have not heard about it until today.”

The girl ran and told her motherís household about these things.

Then a meal was set before the man, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I came to say.” So Laban said, “Please speak.”

So they said, “We will call the girl and ask her opinion.”