Quotes about Communication
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
- Barbara Kingsolver
It's safer knowing more about people than they know about you.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Keeping secrets from young ears only plants seeds in between them
- Barbara Kingsolver
she considered a language that could carry nothing but love and simple truth.
- Barbara Kingsolver
His confidence was enviable and maddening. Most of the time she didn't want him to solve or contradict her worries, she just needed him to listen and agree with her on the awfulness at hand. This was a principle of marriage she'd explained many times.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Having children was not like people said. Forget training them in your footsteps; the minute they put down the teething ring and found the Internet, you were useless as a source of anything but shoes and a winter coat.
- Barbara Kingsolver
When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
- Barbara Kingsolver
It is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Still no internet with all the ways of saying, Let's us be better than those guys so we can hate on them.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Forgive me, Dellarobia. It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself.
- Barbara Kingsolver