“defensive. "I don't want to talk about it." "Trin-" "Arthur, cool it." Trin ordered in his softest tone of voice.” — AlTonya Washington Copy Share Image
“Your sword is made out of your grandmother’s bones?” “Okay, I see how it sounds weird when you say it in that… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The Conviction Principle Convey certainty with words, eye contact, posture, and tone of voice.” — Bill McGowan Copy Share Image
10% of conflicts are due to a difference in opinion. 90% is due to a wrong tone of voice — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
Yeah, but going by that cold tone of voice, she had to wonder whether the best-laid plans of mice and vampires, blah,… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Body language and tone of voice - not words - are our most powerful assessment tools. — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
He’s speaking in the tone of voice that everyone uses when they’re about to break you apart. Gentle—kind, even—like they can make… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Sometimes our words are saying one thing, but our tone of voice is saying another. We are sending double messages. Our spouse… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
“You're such a prude, she would say to me, in a tone of voice that was on the whole pleased. She liked… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A frequent intercourse and intimate connection between two persons make them so like, that not only their dispositions are moulded like each… — Pope Agapetus I Copy Share Image
Listen carefully to the words and tone of voice you use with your spouse. Are you complaining all the time and telling… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“...indeed, with the Radletts, you never could tell. Why, for instance, would Victoria bellow like a bull and half kill Jassy whenever… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
“If you kill me a thousand will take my place,‘ said the man, who was now backed against a wall. ‘Yes,‘ said… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ BUT WHAT DO I SAY If you are most concerned about what to say when you first meet someone, you may… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are people so blind and self-absorbed in all matters that they always believe that, whatever they desire or think, they can… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Guy Savelli's role in the War on Terror began when half-a-dozen strangers, within days of one another, contacted him via e-mail and… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“Try not to let the excitement overwhelm you, but I have more good news.' I groaned. I knew that tone of voice.… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“ASK YOURSELF: How can you utilize active listening to provide sensational customer service? How will this help resolve complaints from unhappy customers?… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“[Nicholson] Baker can't seem to get enough of the wisdom of Gandhi and cites at length an open letter he wrote to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The essence of this knowledge was the ability to 'see all' and to 'know all'. Was this not precisely the ability Adam… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“Yes,” her boss responded, “one for us and one for the customer.” “I’m sorry, so you are saying that the client is… — Chris Voss Copy Share Image
“If my mother's intention in whole or in part was to ensure that I never had to suffer any indignity or embarrassment… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“We're in her bedroom,and she's helping me write an essay about my guniea pig for French class. She's wearing soccer shorts with… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“ 7. Energy. Your degree of personal energy and enthusiasm has a great deal to do with whether or not someone will… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“When an animal dies, another of the same species may cling to the body, eat the body, or look bored. Bees expel… — Boria Sax Copy Share Image
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
“The tone of voice changes the meaning of the word no matter if the definition stays the same” — T.R.B. aka Truthly Speaking Copy Share Image
Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
God does not play games with His loyal servants," said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. "Whooo-eee," said Crowley.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Certainty is as it were a tone of voice in which one declares how things are, but one does not infer from… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I can't listen to my own voice. I change my voicemail on my machine literally every week because I'm so obsessed with… — Michael Angarano Copy Share Image
![“[Nicholson] Baker can't seem to get enough of the wisdom of Gandhi and cites at length an open letter he wrote to the British people on 3 July 1940. "Your soldiers are doing the same work of destruction as the Germans," wrote the Mahatma. "I want you to fight Nazism without arms." He went on to…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ae7/christopher-hitchens-117_british-people_nicholson-baker-can-t-seem-to-get-enough_909521.jpg)
