Conversation Quotes · Page 55

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

Every conversation I have almost always revolves around, you know, personnel and policy focused on producing results.

— Paul Ryan

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

Being able to interact with [studio president] Kevin Feige and have him know who I am and know me as a person,…

— Joe Robert Cole

“The conversation of the gods! - I didn't resent or feel aggrieved because I couldn't understand it. I was the smallest of…

— L.P. Hartley

We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance…

— Maria Edgeworth

“A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very…

— Edmund Gosse

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. And when we do, one…

— Sherry Turkle

And, for example, like, when you're having the conversation with your child about getting their driver's license. Well, a white family -…

— Regina King

. . . nothing could touch the strength of my love, and the thoughts of my beloved. Had I known then that…

— Viktor E. Frankl

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

— Ambrose Bierce

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

— Deborah Tannen

“When you sincerely want to connect on deeper levels and encourage other people to talk about themselves, use open-ended questions to stimulate…

— Susan C. Young

If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to…

— Wendell Berry

As long as everyone's wearing their own pants." "I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation.

— Cassandra Clare

The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free…

— William Matthews

You might be talking to someone who relates a song to losing a friend and you end up talking in the most…

— John Waite

My last conversation with my father was an argument we'd had. When I came to know of his hospitalisation, I'd lost him…

— Mouni Roy

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling…

— Agnes Repplier

A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to…

— Nick Cannon

I am so focused on the fact that the conversation doesn't address any of the things I think are important. I think…

— Steve Wynn

Britain deserves better than people who say they've got a quick fix but won't tell you what it actually means for Britain,…

— Ruth Davidson

My first conversation of the day is with my daughter, Nathalie. I call her every morning; it is a ritual.

— Sonia Rykiel

Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom…

— Socrates

I think those of us on a spiritual journey can help create a new conversation, a new America, and a new world.

— Marianne Williamson

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is…

— Brooks Atkinson

Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?

— Vanna Bonta

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need.…

— Brené Brown

“...I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it…

— Marsha Norman

I don't spend too much time attempting to defend myself against people who seem to have zero desire to have a substantive…

— Sho Baraka

Every group has that one friend that doesn't ever contribute to the conversations and just laughs at everything.

— Anonymous

Some people are monogamous from the get-go while other date as many people as possible until you have "that conversation." Have the…

— Andrew W.K

I have found that life is alive and we are requested to have a friendship with it, to have a conversation with…

— Mark Nepo

Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)

— Joseph Brodsky