Quotes about Communication
Unless we could recognize one another's reality, I'd argue, we would never solve the problems America faced.
— Barack Obama
Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?
— Barack Obama
People think it's all a game," she said. "They don't care that there are thousands of men with guns out there who believe every word that's being said.
— Barack Obama
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