Quotes About Interaction

It is not accidental that the most unsympathetic characters in Austen's novels are those who are incapable of genuine dialogue with others. They rant. They lecture. They scold. This incapacity for true dialogue implies an incapacity for tolerance, self-reflection and empathy.

I have two things to say to that, he said. First, none of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them. And second, you always talk about the effect of these people on you. Have you ever thought about your effect on them?

One's spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one's fellow beings.

People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.

Cooperate with the Obama administration at your own peril. And if you have to shake his hand, make sure you don't look happy about it.

For I'm convinced that the pandemic we're currently living through is both a manifestation of and a mere interruption in the relentless march toward an interconnected world, one in which peoples and cultures can't help but collide.

It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of -- I don't know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing.

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.

Which makes you wonder, are they really speaking real words or do little kids just start out naturally understanding each other before the prime of life sets in?

Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?

I avoided the emplyee smoking room aka drug-exchange HQ, and found no real downside to the job [in the produce department]. People buying apples and green beans usually have some degree of joy in their hearts. -p. 513

In Lee County they say you have to look hard for a face you've not seen before, which surely was true for Mom, who'd directed anybody that could walk to where the Solo cups are kept on Aisle 19.

know how that sounds. But you get twenty people in a big circle talking and chugging, and the effect is pretty good.

Sixty-four," Adah said. Even though she talked now, it was like she was still handing over her little written announcements on notebook paper.

Tig widened her eyes at Willa, suggesting she might be overdoing it.

I hollered back.

whether we realize it or not, we automatically copy the facial expressions we see.

He was blushing. Christ, the kid was so transparent. "Harry, are you going to tell me you've got a girlfriend?" I asked. The blush deepened, and I laughed. "I'll be damned," I said. "Good for you." He looked at me, checking to see whether I was going to tease him. "She's not exactly my girlfriend." "Well, never mind the taxonomy. How did you meet her?" "Work.

He made his way to my table and squeezed in next to me as though it was the most natural thing in the world that he should be meeting me here. As usual, he was wearing a dark suit that fit him like an afterthought. He nodded a greeting. I returned the gesture, then went back to watching Grace play.

Treat me well, and I'll treat you better. Treat me badly, and I'll treat you worse.

I smiled into her green eyes. The smile felt strangely sad to me. Maybe she didn't notice.

Sure," I said, my tone neutral to the point of sarcasm.