Quotes About Communication

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Tout flatteur vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute.

In dog culture, when someone calls you, you should absolutely not come if that results in the ending of something you like or initiation of something you don't like.

It happend that Bob referred in front of Paul to the young woman met in Chantilly; it happened that Paul spoke to Bob of the one from the cinema that he'd had so much trouble seeing again. It never occurred to them that these portraits might bear a certain resemblance to each other, and the fact is that they bore none at all.

The telephone could ring twice, Vito knew he was not going to pick it up. He would put on his leg before his trousers as he did every day on first getting up - at all events nothing good would ever again come by phone, and any way, no matter what, his leg came first.

As proof that HOW we see things matters, Gen. Montgomery took a preprepared text that had been deemed an innocuous complement to his American troops and delivered it in such a way that his condescension prompted more division than unity.

Lincoln responded: I have just received your dispatch of 1 p.m. yesterday. —I begin to see it. You will succeed. — God bless you all. A. LINCOLN6

Always a good listener, FDR was at his best in these exchanges. "I want you to feel that you can come to me at any time in my office," he was soon telling union spokesmen, "and we can talk matters over. Let's get together for I need you to teach me your business and show me what's going on.

Maybe speech has been an evolutionary mistake; maybe everybody would get along better if we couldn't talk to each other.

To exaggerate is to weaken.

We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.

When I wrote to him, I wanted my letters to be sprightly, trivial, indifferent. In spite of myself, I imbued them with my love. I would have liked to make it seem powerful, sure of itself and sure of me, but I infused it, despite myself, with all my anxiety.

Those eyes, seemingly without mystery, are like certain closed cities, such as Lyons and Zurich, and they hypnotize me as do empty theaters, deserted prisons, machinery at rest, deserts, for deserts are closed and do not communicate with the infinite.

To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

T'as parlé le berli du berlu à la corbelle du corbeau ?

tout ça vient parce que il est le père des caresses. Il a un mot pour chacun :

Où il me dégoûtait surtout c'était avec les femmes. La première fois qu'on est venu ici, ça a commencé avec l'Anaïs. Il l'a pas laissée servir un verre sans y faire du boniment.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

was a skill she had always inwardly marveled at when she discovered it in one of her patients, the smooth transitions and fancy footwork with which someone took a nugget of non-negotiable fact, modified it on the spot, and handed it back, an altogether new and tangible animal

All he had ever wanted was to tell—in the best possible words, arranged in the best possible order—the stories inside him.

I'll tell you," says Oliver, "when I know you better.

But the goodness in the letter affected her now, and it occurred to her, not for the first time, that Mark had always saved the best of himself for the people he dealt with in his professional life, though perhaps—and this did strike her for the first time—she had done that as well.

Do you think the coroner would talk to me?" "Don't see why not. We've come a long way since Deliverance. We're pretty nice to outsiders now.

Keeping silent blocks both judgment and change.