Conversation Quotes

2139 quotes by 1544 authors

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies. — Frank Laubach
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants. If you wish to work, if you wish to live… — Rand Paul
It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our… — Ole Hallesby
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom… — Arthur Conan Doyle
In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself. — James A. Baldwin
After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises. — Mary Brave Bird
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. — Benjamin Disraeli
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If your dad is anything like mine, then you have no clue what to buy him for Father's Day. The only Father's Day tradition in… — Michael Showalter
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What is reading but silent conversation? — Walter Savage Landor
I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence, gazing at the… — Huston Smith
No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest… — Michel de Montaigne
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation. — William Hazlitt
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may… — Lewis H. Lapham
More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied… — Samuel Johnson
HOW CAN WE EFFECT CHANGE IN THE WORLD WHEN ONLY HALF OF IT IS INVITED OR FEEL WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CONVERSATION? — Emma Watson
Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation. — Kin Hubbard
Try handling problems in the office as dispassionately as you can and I guarantee you will have a better time of it; not least because… — Suze Orman

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