Quotes About Interactions

Social conventions were avenues as much as barriers.

You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.

We never talked to each other in my family. We communicated by putting Ann Landers articles on the refrigerator.

Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle.

Silence and smiles are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems and Silence is the way to avoid many problems.

People are not naturally either friends or enemies: friendship and enmity arise from circumstances.

Sometimes it's not about the journey or the destination..but about the people you meet along the way.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society

In some families, 'please' is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was 'sorry'.

Good clients and customers raise the bar. Bad ones just keep hitting you over the head with it.

There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.

It's just hassle of having friends and family an' that.

Mel: What was your name again? Rain: Rain. Mel: Oh that's nice. Kind of like bad weather.

Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some future takeover of the state.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

Each of us must spread the waves of love and peace and create an atmosphere through our thoughts, our words and interactions with others.

I have learned, even though I have been cloistered from the world so long, that no man really looks with favour upon the one who gives him favour, unasked.

We could kill them,' Stone suggested, not helpfully. It would have been a tense moment, except Heart sighed impatiently and said, 'Line-grandfather, not in front of company.' Delin lifted a hand. 'I know Stone is merely stimulating discussion.' Pearl eyed Stone and lifted her spines. 'Perhaps Stone could stop doing that.