Quotes About Interaction

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us, which can mold us, but which can also be affected by us. A balance must be established between these two worlds—the one inside us and the one outside us.

A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.

I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

What I felt for you was a combination of respect and affection. There was a closeness I felt through intimate interaction. The affection part is all over with. All that remains is the respect. If I put my arms around you and told you that I missed you, I would be lying. You're alright with me and I wish you well. But you're not me and that makes you one of them and you can only get so close.

I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.

I couldn't tell if I was being distant to someone, or rude or even hostile. I only know a good night and a bad night. I know that I remember the bad night longer than the good night.

I turn the corner and go into the store and get what I need. The lady at the checkout asks me how I'm doing, and I know she doesn't really want to know so I don't say anything. These people always make me want to destroy.

Giv every one you meet, my boy, the time ov day and halff the road, and if that dont make him civil dont waste enny more fragrance on the cuss.

I don't rekoleckt now ov ever hearing ov two dogs fiteing unless thare waz a man or two around.

that the greater philosopher a man is, the more difficult it is for him to answer the foolish questions of common people;

I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly;

He talked to her as people commonly do talk in society—all sorts of nonsense, but nonsense to which he could not help attaching a special meaning in her case.

But Nikolay was brimming with such innocent good humour that now and then even the husband fell prey to his exuberance. Towards the end of the evening, however, as the wife's face grew redder and livelier, the husband's grew steadily paler and sadder. It was as if they had been issued with a limited amount of vivacity between them, and as the wife's share of it rose, the husband's dwindled away.

But she immediately turned away to Princess Marya Borisovna and never once glanced at him until he got up to leave; then she looked at him, but obviously only because it was impolite not to look at a man when he was bowing to you.

Here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing.

Why are you sad?" "Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings

we all talked at the same time, not listening to one another, sometimes seconding and praising one another in order to be seconded and praised in turn, sometimes getting angry with one another—just as in a lunatic asylum.

The practically nude Hélène was sitting near her, smiling at everyone with the same smile and Natasha gave Boris just such a smile.

It was evident that he not only knew everyone in the drawing room, but had found them to be so tiresome that it wearied him to look at or listen to them.

The subtle dance of the body joins us to the world.

If you're not attempting to get someone to see, feel, think, or act in a particular manner, why bother communicating at all?

Of course, she had to put up with being insulted by the cats at times, but she insulted them back just as loudly and in the same language.