"Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice."

-- Arnold Bennett

#Communication Quotes #Voice Quotes #Tone Quotes

“There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.”
“A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.”
“...I canâ€™t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.”
“We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.”

Source : Anne Fortier (2014). “The Lost Sisterhood: A Novel”, p.448, Ballantine Books
“If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.”
“In every storm there is a 'Peace! Be still' Christ will speak where prayer's call invites Him.”
“It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.”
“One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.”

Source : Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.5, Penguin

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