Not On Speaking Terms Quotes

#1. Love and Doubt are not on speaking terms

Kahlil Gibran

#2. Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?

C. H. Dodd

#3. Now Eli was my new neighbor. Which was fine with me because I sucked at Math. Math and I were not on speaking terms.

Shelly Crane

#4. Did happiness always used to be this complicated?" Amy asked after a bit.
I shrugged, " I have no idea. Happiness and I are barely on speaking terms these days.

Alexis Hall

#5. Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis.

Frederick Lenz

#6. The duality of St Petersburg and Leningrad remains. They are not even on speaking terms.

Joseph Wechsberg

#7. So slip on your goggles and your reading trunks, for the sun is high. Let me leave you with one more thought. In what season of the year do we find ourselves - I'm speaking for a moment in terms of the physical world - wading through things? Surf. Kelp. Books. Summer.

Roy Blount Jr.

#8. Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Khalil Gibran

#9. He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings in speaking of themselves use the terms "lonely," "friendless," "of small account." Is not this making humility their base?

Laozi

#10. I don't want to get hurt again. That's true. A week ago we weren't on speaking terms. Now you think you love me. And I don't want to hurt you either. I'm not looking for a steady boyfriend right now.

Josh Lanyon

#11. Mr. Cuervo and I - and all of his Mexican cousins are no longer on speaking terms

K.A. Tucker

#12. If we'd been on speaking terms, I might've told her that I'd come to think of sex as this long dark tunnel that turns friends into strangers, strangers into friends.

Tom Perrotta

#13. sugar, if you ain't on speaking terms with The Lord, what right you got to ask Him to help you out?

Bette Lee Crosby

#14. [At the reception following her remarriage to Alan Campbell:] People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today - including the bride and groom.

Dorothy Parker

#15. I should like to begin with a philosophical comment. I do not think that when one is speaking of hardships or benefits one can reasonably speak in terms of classes or social groups but only in terms of individuals.

John James Cowperthwaite

#16. God and I aren't exactly on speaking terms these days.

Susan Carol McCarthy

#17. The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the student's inward teacher is ignored ... we can speak to the teacher within our students only when we are on speaking terms with the teacher within ourselves.

Parker J. Palmer

#18. Harry didn't say anything. He liked being back on speaking terms with Ron too much to speak his mind right now - but he somehow thought that Hermione had gotten the point much better than Ron had.

J.K. Rowling

#19. Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal.

Jeremy Clarkson

#20. Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It has no legal meaning, except when used to describe the separate, private, individual rights of a greater or less number of individuals.

Lysander Spooner

#21. Me and normal have never really been on speaking terms.

Rachel Caine

#22. Ma and Mrs. Daly were on speaking terms, most of the time; women prefer to hate each other at close range, where you get more bang for your buck.

Tana French

#23. I don't think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms

Cassandra Clare

#24. Remember that one who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness.

John Robbins

#25. If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

John Updike

#26. Another one of the line-item vetoes in the "never drink alone" rule book is that you're allowed to drink alone while traveling. Who else could possibly join you? I loved drinking alone in distant bars, staying on speaking terms with my own solitude.

Sarah Hepola

#27. If you live life on your own terms it shouldn't feel like a jail cell.

Shannon L. Alder

#28. BUT, in terms of attractiveness, speaking in terms of physical aspects only I think that Argentinean, Italian, Mexican, and Spanish men are among the most attractive men.

Alicia Machado

#29. Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

William James

#30. Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class society, they talked in terms of God and the Devil.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#31. Failure so often hates the very sight of success. Speaking with successful men, I have noticed they speak in complimentary terms of other men who are succeeding. Their attitude is not one of envy, but of willingness to learn from others.

Napoleon Hill

#32. Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?

Dolly Parton

#33. I have always been on speaking terms with God, especially now. God and I just had a few weeks of silence. 'Tis over now.

Jennifer Hudson Taylor

#34. Most of the questions people asked you, he felt, were there to fill up dead space, curtail your movements, divert your energy and attention. Anyway, my grandfather and his emotions were never really on speaking terms.

Michael Chabon