Conversation Quotes · Page 72

I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's…

— William P. Young

Never try to enter any stupid conversation because it will only lead you to some more stupid arguments.

— Shubhanshu Tiwari

All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet,…

— Thomas a Kempis

I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that no meant…

— Nate Parker

I'm not an extremely social person in general because I don't love crowds, but I'm an engaging person, and I love good…

— Jonathan Scott

Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be…

— Alexander Graham Bell

The SI Swim cover was life changing, not just for myself but for women everywhere who've been told they can't do something…

— Ashley Graham

I have always wanted to make art that I thought was a conversation starter.

— Ariana DeBose

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Men need to help reshape the conversation around consent.

— Tarana Burke

Girls love a guy who can hold a good conversation without talking about sex every 5 minutes.

— Anonymous

I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am,…

— Jason Collins

I regret that I was never an athlete. I regret there isn't time in life. I regret that so many of my…

— Richard Rodriguez

Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

— Warren Buffett

“In the war zone of arguments, debates, criticism - silence is the safe house.”

— Amit Kalantri

Well, I think comedy can be a great unifier. If someone can laugh about something, maybe they can become more open to…

— Desi Lydic

A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill…

— Edward Young

Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in…

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what…

— Barbara Pym

That conversation... was as dirty as a sewer! It is not enough for you to take no part in it. You must…

— Josemaria Escriva

That's a very privileged attitude and I think the ignorance is so strong there. When people say, "Oh please, I don't want…

— Bethann Hardison

I think, to be a great conversationalist, you need to be interested in being in said conversation. Oddly enough, I think you…

— Tom Segura

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

— John Witherspoon

If ever you find it hard to sleep at night, don't count sheep. Instead, talk to the Shepherd... lay all your burdens…

— Nishan Panwar

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

— Agatha Christie

Try handling problems in the office as dispassionately as you can and I guarantee you will have a better time of it;…

— Suze Orman

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

— Cato the Younger

There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just…

— Jennifer Beals

Once in a while, I bump into a knitter, and we have a lovely conversation. But if you figure out the number…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I'm comfortable on the progressive side. But I'm still more pitched at fighting the Right than I am about building a progressive…

— David Brock

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ugly reports and conversations are always available to those who would promote the sordid and sensational. None of us are yet perfect.…

— Marvin J. Ashton

It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art…

— Nick Cannon

I've been really happy to be in that conversation with Scott [Derrickson] for a few months now. We started chewing this cud…

— Tilda Swinton

I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often,

— Reid Hoffman

'Speak when you're spoken to!' The Queen sharply interrupted her. 'But if everybody obeyed that rule,' said Alice, who was always ready…

— Lewis Carroll

If I'm writing for a particular artist, I definitely think about their past records, pay attention to the type of tempos that…

— Sevyn Streeter

It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

— A. A. Milne

Success is a balance thing, it's about work and play together, so we need to work on how we embrace that. The…

— Mary Portas

When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in…

— Anne Lamott