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Quotes About Interaction

He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.
~ Francois Rabelais
Speak after the manner of men.
~ Romans
Without tact you can learn nothing.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Talking is like playing on the harp, there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
~ Ann Landers
We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
~ Bible
In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city, everyone does not - only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.
~ Jane Jacobs
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
~ Peter De Vries
He talks at the drop of a pause.
~ John Mason Brown
Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.
~ Barbara Walters
When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.
~ Samuel Johnson
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.
~ Deborah Tannen
Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
~ Laurence Sterne
Jer, lakse je podneti i najneprijatniji pogled nego oci koje uporno gledaju pored vas.
~ Ivo Andri?
Ima takvih ljudi koji se ne?ega plaše ili stide, nešto žele da sakriju. I upravo zbog toga oni svojim pogledom stalno nastoje da privuku i zadrže tu?i pogled, u želji da ga vežu za svoje o?i i da mu tako ne dopuste da ide dalje i da razgleda i ispituje crte njihova lica ili delove tela ili ode?u na njima.
~ Ivo Andri?
When you think that someone else thinks you are wrong or guilty because of the color of your skin, your responses to or interactions with them are not grounded in reality. They are the result of programming and conditioning.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Technically speaking, there are people in Nebraska. live been there. l met both of them.
~ J. Maarten Troost
Get out of the lab occasionally, Stiles. Why? There are people out there. Nothing fucks things up faster than people.
~ J.D. Robb
Peabody:] Bite me. Though Eve managed to swallow a chuckle at her aide's use of her own standard response to annoyances, she didn't quite make it over McNab's cheerful, Where?
~ J.D. Robb
Sir. Several expressions passed over Peabody's face before it went carefully blank. That's a lovely dress, Lieutenant. Are you premiering a new style? Baffled, Eve looked down, then rolled her eyes. Shit. You've seen my tits before. But she set the communicator down and struggled the bodice into place. And may I say, sir, they're quite lovely. Sucking up, Peabody? You bet.
~ J.D. Robb
When she heard the door behind her open, she spoke without turning. You've got a man who doesn't particularly like women as a species, considers them inferior. Well, to be fair, considers everyone inferior, but I got a definitive vibe women were lowest on his feeding chain. Called me 'miss,' she grumbled. And lived? Roarke stepped behind her and began rubbing her shoulders.
~ J.D. Robb
It amazed her how much people wanted to talk at parties. And about nothing in particular.
~ J.D. Robb
Well, as we were saying when last we met— I don't have to say dick to you without my lawyer. Did I ask you to say dick? Peabody, replay the record and verify that I at no time requested that the subject say dick.
~ J.D. Robb
It's so difficult for two shy people to manage.
~ J.D. Robb