Conversation Quotes · Page 59

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. Prayer is to enter…

— Henri Nouwen

The Indians , whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation, giving one another a…

— John Locke

St. Seraphim, like Francis of Assisi, talked to animals. One day two nuns saw him deep in conversation with a bear. The…

— Olivier Clement

There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

— Jodi Picoult

I don't think that my lyrics are over-laced with profanity, because I myself don't speak using a lot of profanity in normal…

— Marilyn Manson

I support a constitutional conversation, as the Labour Party does, which will allow New Zealanders to evolve a more mature and stable…

— David Cunliffe

Birds which are the same color as the foliage in which they nest are less likely to be disturbed by other birds…

— Robert Benchley

So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called…

— Haruki Murakami

When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference. At the most basic level, don't let denial go unchallenged…

— Al Gore

The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard…

— H. Burke Peterson

The Pavlovian view of women voters - plug the words in, and they will respond - sends a chill down my spine…

— Deborah Tannen

The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others.

— Deborah Tannen

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.

— Paulo Coelho

I have learned so much more about Islam in conversation with Jews and Christians and Hindus. I feel like that is part…

— Eboo Patel

Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but…

— Charles Bukowski

Her heart was pounding impossibly fast. Then she realized She was feeling both of their hearts, racing each other. A kind of…

— Lauren Kate

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded,…

— Casey Affleck

…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for…

— Simone de Beauvoir

We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghanistan helps make America a safer country,…

— Grover Norquist

['John F. Kennedy] movie is based on a massive best-selling book, which is always helpful. And then the script was amazing and…

— Rob Lowe

True browsing means that we discover shelves and subjects that we could not have anticipated when we started. And the books we…

— Ramona Koval

All you need is a pool table, beer, an electric jukebox and good conversation. The day a girl beats me in a…

— Chace Crawford

Newton's Third Law of Conversation, if it existed, would hold that every statement implies an equal and opposite statement. To say that…

— Hugh Laurie

A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.

— Stevie Smith

Russia, at the start of the 21st century, at least in its larger cities, very much resembled the United States of the…

— Masha Gessen

I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't…

— Susan Straight

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

— Amit Kalantri

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting…

— Charles Caleb Colton

All men, well interrogated, answer well.

— Plato

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

— Florence Nightingale

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed…

— Peter Ustinov

I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard…

— Bill Ayers

We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when…

— Eric Hoffer

In Victor's life, monotony and boredom had nothing to do with one another. He repeated his repertoire so often that even from…

— Luisa Valenzuela

I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

I don't think politics is any longer about a conversation with the country.

— Jon Stewart

Danny Williams broke my dream. Iron Mike, for me, was the dream. For many years, I would see Tyson and say, 'Mike,…

— Vitali Klitschko

I'm very shy and awkward; I can't have a normal conversation, and then people think I'm being a bit rude, but really…

— Eliot Sumner

Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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