Not Listening Quotes

Try asking for Nyx's help."
"Nyx would not hear me." Kalona spoke so quietly that Shaunee almost didn't hear him. "she has not heard me for eons."
"During those eons how many times did you ask for her help?"
"Not once," he said
"Then how do you know she's not listening to you?
- P C Cast

I'm not usually an eavesdropper,but i dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult.
- Rick Riordan

You're not gonna touch or kiss me for a week are you?" I said, letting him know I knew what he was doing.
He turned to look at me poignantly.
"Absolutely not."
"We'll see about that," I countered.
"You need time to heal-"
"Oh no. I'm going this way and not listening." I pointed toward the commons room. "In my book, you just issued me a challenge, buster. And I accept.
- Shelly Crane

In Washington and Moscow they are saying, 'Man has finally come of age; he doesn't need paternalistic help.' Which is another way of saying, 'We have abolished that help, and in its place we will rule,' offering no help at all: taking but not giving, ruling but not obeying, telling but not listening, taking life and not giving it. The slayers govern now, without interference; the dreams of mankind have become empty.
- Philip K Dick

Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they're arguing.
- Adam Gopnik

William stared at him, coffee forgotten. "Oh, Jesus."
"I'm pretty sure he's not listening, but you can call him if it makes you feel better," said Chris.
- Mira Grant

When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
- Florence Griffith Joyner

Dear cat, your ears are flipped inside out, so I know you're not listening to a word I'm not saying.
- Jarod Kintz

My wife keeps me busy while she talksI'm not listening, but rather making the air masturbation gesture.
- Jarod Kintz

You confuse not speaking with not listening.
- Gregory Maguire

Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers.
- Merrill Markoe

It was a drowsy summer afternoon, and the Forest was full of gentle sounds, which all seemed to be saying to Pooh, 'Don't listen to Rabbit, listen to me.' So he got in a comfortable position for not listening to Rabbit.
- A A Milne

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.
- Campbell Newman

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.
- Philip Pullman

We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.
- Paul Ryan

The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.
- Jessica Savitch

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
- Alan Watts

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
- Margaret J Wheatley