“This is Teenage madness. Trapped in a room knowing there's more outside. Trapped listening to a teacher talk about Hemingway as if… — Travis Thrasher Copy Share Image
Reconciliation is a deep practice that we can do with our listening and our mindful speech. To reconcile means to bring peace… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Mom said, "His spirit is there," and that made me really angry. I told her, "Dad didn't have a spirit! He had… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into… — Laura Wasser Copy Share Image
One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life… — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
“but it was a religion which enabled him to despise himself and everyone else without despising the universe, thus allowing him at… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“I don't see how Clary is something we have in common,' Simon said, although he did. Nevertheless, this wasn't a conversation he… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“It is rarely possible, when a human being is in deep need, to look upon somebody who offers help as merely another… — Jeffery Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
“You need hope to form a thought. It takes—I don’t know—optimism to speak, to engage in conversation. Because, really, what’s the point… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
“As a linguist suggests: " There are messages primarily serving to establish, to prolong, or to discontinue communication, to check whether the… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
“It was Ebon's turn now, and he stepped forward and gave the pegasus' great clarion neigh -- far more like a trumpet… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“It is an odd fact that certain words will leap at one out of a jumble of voices. Once such a thing… — Galen Beckett Copy Share Image
No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Within two years of my conversion, at a Bible conference at Mt. Hermon in California, I dedicated my life to the Lord… — Cliff Barrows Copy Share Image
“...when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they're actually having, the conversation that is… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
To stutter through it with you or even stop stuttering and say nothing, was so lucky and soft, better talk than mile-a-minute… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
What will most certainly happen is that there will be very clear and full communication between the government and independents and minor… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
That is why, as one who values the U.S. - Israel relationship, and loves Israel, I was near tears throughout the Prime… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
I love Stone Sour. I love the music that we created. and it was a fun ride. But if I'm going to… — Jim Root Copy Share Image
“Power’s message was purposely broadcast in the clear—not encoded—to ensure that Soviets could eavesdrop and understand the stakes. His message was hardly… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
I thought clarity of communication was the most important thing in writing, and if you really cared about getting your idea across,… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I've had this conversation with Chrissie Hynde and Courtney Love. If they'd dated the men they dated before they picked up their… — Bebe Buell Copy Share Image
In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will… — Scott Brown Copy Share Image
“[Emilio’s dinner with FM Banier] Gradually I abandon the conversation (suffering because the others might suppose I am doing so for reasons… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Most companies that are successful listen to people and see what they want and they make that. So when I used to… — Chamillionaire Copy Share Image
“Our words are often only vague, inadequate descriptions of our thoughts. Something gets lost in translation every time we try to express… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
“If she thought I was about to do the whole “have a conversation with the villain” thing, she was dead wrong. I… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
“While I was contemplating what to do, Storm’s voice came from behind me. “Sun, could you come and chat with me for… — Yu Wo Copy Share Image
There are broader and narrower definitions of the new economy. The narrow version defines the new economy in terms of two principal… — Laurence Meyer Copy Share Image
“...Dialogue is an activity that represents a state of relations going well beyond tolerance...You can coexist with people without ever having to… — Gustav Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Without really wanting to at all, they pay calls and carry on conversations, sit out their hours at desks and on office… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I feel that the term "new age" is used by basically hostile media to diminish and marginalize a conversation that is very… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We have neither the pretension to solve all the problems of these deaf children nor the intention to sit down and feel… — Jean-Claude Adzalla Copy Share Image
A judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found the long-winded speeches of lawyers especially trying and advised them to take a… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
“Modern communication loads us with more problems than the human frame can carry. [...] Our grandmothers, and even - with some scrambling… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Without trust and respect, only fear and distrust of others' motives and intentions are left. Without trust and respect between parties, it… — Deborah A. Beasley Copy Share Image
“The Lord never stops speaking to his sons and daughters. If there is any shortage of communication between the Lord and His… — Eric M. Hill Copy Share Image