Quotes about Communication

every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

If ash-trays could speak, sir.' 'Indeed, yes.

I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

Can you explain away love too?' I asked. 'Oh yes,' he said. 'The desire to possess in some, like avarice: in others the desire to surrender, to lose the sense of responsibility, the wish to be admired. Sometimes just the wish to be able to talk, to unburden yourself to someone who won't be bored. The desire to find again a father or a mother. And of course under it all the biological motive.

He put his mouth on her and kissed her on the cheek; he was afraid of the mouth-thoughts travel too easily from lip to lip.

Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we stumble from phrase to phrase with endless repetition.

She always harboured my criticism: it was only praise that slid from her like the snow.

he forgot for the while what experience had taught him-that no human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Why don't you go back to your wife, then? ' ' It's not easy to live with someone you've injured.

He never listened while his wife talked.

Prayer is the idea of wishing for something from the depth of our hearts and bringing that desire forward to the throne of God.

Far too often, unbelievers know Christians only for what we stand against, not what we stand for.