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Quotes About Reply

That, Eddie thought, was an exceedingly clever reply. Roland had said I can't answer . . . but that wasn't the same thing as I don't know. Far from it.
~ Stephen King
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Covenant did not reply at once. He trembled also, and hand to clench himself before he could say without a tremor, Why? Why do you trust me? The Hirebrand's eyes gleamed as if he were on the verge of tears, but he was smiling as he said, You are a man who knows the value of beauty.
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
Now, the scene you just saw, I began, pointing to the stage. Was about you and T.C., he concluded, nodding like he already knew. What?? She pretends she doesn't like him and he pretends he doesn't care. I had no handy rebuttal to that particular allegation and wouldn't have been able to come up with one if I'd been given a week's notice. So I countered with the only safe reply I could think of. The toilet is not working properly.
~ Steve Kluger
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
~ Euripides
I don't want to get embroiled in any controversy. At the same time, I want to take part in those conversations that are meaningful. I have not entrusted anyone to reply on behalf or react to any issue pertaining to me.
~ Mammootty
People say, 'I'm only suing for the principle of the thing,' and I reply that I can't give you principle - only money.
~ Joseph Wapner
I would say if you're getting hate on social media, just don't reply.
~ Skai Jackson
Why, like all men, she replied. Then added, repulsing him with a languid movement - You are all evil!
~ Gustave Flaubert
When Moses sought the nature of this God, asking 'What is thy name?', he received the majestically forbidding reply, 'I AM THAT I AM,' a God without a name, rendered in Hebrew as YHWH: Yahweh or, as Christians later misspelt it, Jehovah.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
What is the Truth? was askt of yore. Reply all object Truth is one As twain of halves aye makes a whole; the moral Truth for all is none.
~ Sir Richard Francis Burton
Aggressive questions are usually pedagogic - that is, the answer has already been written in the mind of the questioner, who then waits with a reply. It's pretend listening.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Love is the answer, said the songs, and that's OK. It was OK, I supposed, as an answer. But no more than that. It was not a solution; it wasn't really even an answer, just a reply.
~ Lorrie Moore
Nate poked her with the toe of his sneaker. "This is a David thing," he said. "Obviously." She did not reply. "Romance seems fun," he added. "Don't." "I'm not.
~ Maureen Johnson
What is the appropriate reply to make to a man who says he loves you? Thank you. You are very kind.
~ Meg Cabot
Who-who are you? Seth asked, hesitantly.Wh-what do you want? How else was was I supposed to reply? The words were out of my mouth before I could stop them.I mean, I'd only seen the movie like seventeen times. I'm Luke Skywalker, I said. I'm here to rescue you.
~ Meg Cabot
Is your boss in? Because I think we'd better speak to him. Well, I say. That's going to be hard. Why, for heaven's sake? Brian wants to know. Because he got shot in the head yesterday, I reply. Brian flinches. But Mr. Rosetti just nods. It happens, he says, with a shrug.
~ Meg Cabot
Marked as it was by the Zeitgeist, Glas can also be read as a reply to Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, which had so irritated Derrida.
~ Benoît Peeters
Hmmm?" was her distracted reply. She had her face tipped up to the sun and was basking in its warmth. And for one extremely disconcerting moment, Anthony felt a sharp stab of . . . something. Something? He gave his head a little shake. It couldn't possibly be desire. Not for this woman.
~ Julia Quinn
What are you smiling about?" Benedict demanded. She didn't bother to glance up as she replied, "I'm plotting your demise.
~ Julia Quinn
How sweet is the Shepherd's sweet lot! From the morn to the evening he stays; He shall follow his sheep all the day, And his tongue shall be filled with praise. For he hears the lambs' innocent call, And he hears the ewes' tender reply; He is watching while they are in peace, For they know when their Shepherd is nigh.
~ blake william v
Could you move a little closer?" She smiled. "I think not." "I showered." She ignored the remark. "I understand that you occasionally do some investigative work," Susan Lex said. Myron did not reply. "Is that correct?" "Depends on what you mean by investigative work." "I'll take that as a yes," Susan Lex said. Myron gave her a suit-yourself shrug.
~ Harlan Coben
But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply.
~ William Cowper
One day Mani Sir called me to his office and narrated the script of 'Raavan.' He then asked me how good my Hindi is. When I told him that it's quite good, he asked one of his assistant directors to talk to me in Hindi and I was asked only to reply in Hindi.
~ Priyamani