Discussion Quotes · Page 7

A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.

— Edward de Bono

Until we have a serious discussion, this problem [racism] will continue to occur.

— Ilyasah Shabazz

“It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The Greek side of me definitely loves a good meal, a lot of laughing, loud discussions.

— Rita Wilson

Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

— Philip Yancey

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

— Ai Weiwei

Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them.

— Douglas Coupland

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.

— Edward de Bono

Noir' has been talked about a great deal in the discussion of 'The Black Dahlia,' but De Palma's palllete couldn't be less…

— Mark Fisher

Today's sensitive male has learned to share in open frank discussions about relationships like, "Where the hell did you get a crazy…

— Lewis Grizzard

Certainly anything that is news or opinion needs to be free on the Web, because the Web is this very fluid medium…

— Fred Wilson

I'm happy to have discussions about what's going on creatively to an extent but I need final cut on absolutely everything. And…

— Derek E. Miller

More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As…

— Orhan Pamuk

When Mrs. Bush was First Lady, she went all over the Mideast talking about breast cancer awareness and the need for early…

— Greta Van Susteren

The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

A strong-willed child - a strong-willed child, more than anyone else, needs to learn to use emotion and discussion to resolve issues.…

— Sean Hannity

Implementing parts of European constitution and leaving out others - without knowing where we're going - isn't an option. That would be…

— Angela Merkel

To resolve this issue will require Iran to come to the table and discuss in a clear and forthright way how to…

— Barack Obama

When someone comes to you to talk about a problem, if you move the conversation on to a discussion of potential solutions,…

— Michelle Gielan

You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political…

— Jim Wallis

The nation relies upon public discussion as one of the indispensable means to attain correct solutions to problems of social welfare. Curtailment…

— Stanley Forman Reed

Resolutions expressing Parliamentary approval of every Treaty before ratification would be a very cumbersome form of procedure and would burden the House…

— Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who…

— Thomas Jefferson

The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without…

— Tony Benn

“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.”

— Amit Kalantri

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

— James Reston

Americans are hungry for a discussion on policy solutions to the problems in their communities that work.

— J. C. Watts

“There is a great deal of solemn discussion about The Novel. In fact, every novel is an answer to the ancient plea,…

— Pamela Brown

Ignorance is not something that lends itself to a meaningful discussion.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.

— Marcus Aurelius

So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.

— John Jay Chapman

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

— Daniel Bell

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

— Lance Morrow

If you let things devolve into a shouting match, then it's really difficult to have a discussion, a serious discussion.

— Brianna Keilar

“a discussion within the framework of a larger discussion that was taking place in the same building”

— Roberto Bolaño

I try to broaden every discussion out, make it very relatable to fans.

— Colin Cowherd

It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.

— Ian MacKaye

A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.

— Bob Beauprez

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

— Franklin Pierce

The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings.

— Max Beckmann