Conversation Quotes · Page 14

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

— Samuel Johnson

“Words are better than weapons, wisdom is better than war.”

— Amit Kalantri

We change people through conversation, not through censorship.

— Jay-Z

I don't say I love you, out of habit or just for conversation when I say it I really mean it.

— Anonymous

All it took was one conversation to know that Reebok was the right home for our team.

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

Having a conversation with some people is like a little vacation for your brain.

— Linda Poindexter

For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

— Margaret Mead

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

— Blaise Pascal

My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't…

— Sheryl Sandberg

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Let's have an honest conversation about what's going on. A man and a man at a bar looks like mentoring. A man…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Nebraska Republicans believe that Nebraska Democrats love their kids, and I believe we can have a constructive conversation with everybody.

— Ben Sasse

I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you're doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling…

— Barbara Bush

I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing,…

— Dalia Mogahed

Sometimes I'd like to have a conversation with a friend in a restaurant without feeling I'm being watched. At this rate I…

— Fernando Torres

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own…

— Ambrose Bierce

Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never…

— Garth Stein

I love love. Growing up, I always thought it was a state, and I'd wait for it to appear. Now I think…

— Greg Saunier

The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and…

— Heinrich Heine

If I have my opinion about something, you have your opinion about something, we don't have to fight over it. And we…

— Don Lemon

I'm often in conversations with people who have learning disabilities, and they talk about how they were teased and perhaps laughed at…

— Jerry Pinkney

I'd spent ten years in London, writing and performing my own comedy shows. They gave me the Cheers [scenes], and I thought…

— Shelley Long

Did you ever see so many pee-wee hats, Carl?" "They're beanies." "They call them pee-wees in Brooklyn." "But I'm not in Brooklyn."…

— Betty Smith

“...the Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set…

— Jim Fergus

In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.

— Andre Maurois

I like when you can have a conversation with people and it's not just stock questions.

— Jonah Hill

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.

— Jonathan Swift

Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation.

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

— Kevin Smith

I think I'm realizing I've always been able to move people, just getting people to talk.

— LeAnn Rimes

Emails get reactions. Phone calls start conversations.

— Simon Sinek

I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

— Rita Rudner

Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.

— Isabel Allende

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

— Margaret Halsey

“Both still stood in the same positions, ready to deal with a conversation, should one break out.”

— Christopher Shevlin

The First Goal of Conversation: Understanding, not Agreement

— Danny Silk

I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing, and cozy chats to group settings.

— Susan Cain

WANT shows up in conversation - EXPECTATION shows up in behavior.

— Les Brown

I believe that every conversation you have is an invitation to risk revealing the real you.

— Keith Ferrazzi