Quotes about Interaction

What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.

every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

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

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.

Listening is more important than talking. If that were not true, God would not have given us two ears and only one mouth.

And it seemed to me, too, that I've always been afraid when I was in the company of people…afraid of saying something stupid…afraid of being laughed at.

Am i talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. I can stop when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult.

Note: — One can do a great deal with appropriate smiles. I must study the subject carefully. The friendly smile — the scornful smile — the detached smile — the entreating smile — the common or garden grin.

Boys were to her, when she thought about them at all, merely possible good comrades.

And did she talk to him after that as usual? asked Sara Ray. Oh, yes, she was just the same as she used to be, said the Story Girl wearily. But that doesn't belong to the story. It stops when she spoke at last. You're never satisfied to leave a story where it should stop, Sara Ray.

When he said good-evening you felt that it was a good evening and that it was partly his doing that it was. Also, you felt that some of the credit was yours.