Quotes About Communication

We aren't getting married to save on labor, Mr. Creed.' Evie's glower could have burned through a sequoia. Twice. 'I, for one, am offended you think we're marriage mercenaries.

You never know what you're missing when you run away from a conversation.

It was the first time he'd ever had a reason to send out Christmas cards, and it had been difficult, finding the right things to say in them, especially since they probably weren't his father, no matter what his mother thought. Not all of them, anyway.

Todos habláis mucho. Alguien tiene que ser la persona que no hable. La persona que escuche. (...) Es como ser invisible, ¿sabes? No hablar.

Un componente esencial en cualquier relación es la capacidad de sorprender a quien amas.

As in any insincere relationship, each man responded to shadows.

They talked like this all the time. There was no malice in it: they were just brutally frank with each other. They were brothers, so there was no need to be nice. ~~Winter of the World (having 3 sons, it's nice to know this dynamic is normal b/c I'm always telling them to, 'Talk nice to your brother!') :)

You never get cheered for telling people the situation is not as simple as they think.

When people are perfectly polite, it usually means they don't really care. A little awkwardness is more sincere.

He was looking forward to letting Joanne know, in a casual way, that he had read these books.

politicians often had the knack of seeming to know everyone intimately. Either they had remarkable memories, or their secretaries reminded them efficiently.

Blenkinsop sighed. As usual, those of you who can think of better ways to win the war are invited to write directly to Mr. Winston Churchill, number 10 Downing Street, London South-West-One. Now, are there any questions, as opposed to stupid criticisms?

For me the words should be like a pane of glass that you look through, not at.

Fitz did not censor her mail but, as the head of the family, he had the right to read any letter addressed to a female relative living in his house. No respectable woman would object.

My father taught us to learn as much as possible of any tongue we came across. He says it's better than money in the bank.

The worst negotiator in the world is a man who believes he's clever.

I will marry a man who is clever and thoughtful and who wants his wife to be more than just the most senior of his servants.

El presidente Wilson dice que un líder debe tratar a la opinión pública del mismo modo en que un marinero se aprovecha del viento, utilizándolo para impulsar la nave en una dirección u otra, pero nunca intentando ir directamente contra él.

But you should go to bed." "With your ladyship's permission, I'd like to stay up until Lord Remarc telephones again.

Whoever produced the first draft would need, in all fairness, to put in some of what the other side wanted alongside his own demands. His statement of the other side's wishes then became an irreducible minimum, while all of his own demands were still up for negotiation. So the drafter always started at a disadvantage. Greg vowed to remember never to write the first draft.

Villages in the English countryside were cut off by the snow

Macke went to the door. He looked at the three women: the maid, the wife, and the daughter. "All this trouble," he said, "for the sake of an eight-year-old moron. I will never understand you people.

Like all diplomats, Walter hated it when monarchs talked directly to each other, instead of through their ministers. Anything could happen then.

She loved his seriousness. Most men, even quite clever ones, became silly when they talked to women. Walter spoke to her just as intelligently as he spoke to Robert or Fitz, and—even more unusually—he listened to her answers.