Discussion Quotes · Page 46

Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home…

— Susan Cain

Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.

— Helene D. Gayle

If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day…

— Herodotus

Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality.…

— Patricia Churchland

You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates…

— Todd Lieberman

My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

— Warren Zevon

There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise. Believe me, there was never any discussion of lip syncing…

— Adam Shankman

I've written about teenage heroes before, on Marvel's Runaways, and I remember at the time when I pitched it, it was a…

— Brian K. Vaughan

I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue;…

— Sarah Palin

People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you're not.

— Anonymous

Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the…

— Barack Obama

The way you confront an organization like that is twofold. No. 1, you kill their militants. There is no room for discussion…

— Reza Aslan

I've had lots of discussions with my Muslim brothers and sisters who have said to me, "Christianity is a white man's religion"…

— Immortal Technique

Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a…

— Rob Bell

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.

— Cornell Capa

There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never…

— Alexander Payne

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by…

— Neville Chamberlain

It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the…

— Denis Diderot

I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the…

— Jeremy Northam

[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.

— Ai Weiwei

I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has…

— Michael Moore

I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.

— David O. Russell

I do think that campaigns are about electing somebody, but they're also about a discussion of the future of our country.

— Nancy Pelosi

When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and…

— William Randolph Hearst

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and…

— Anonymous