Conversation Quotes

2139 Conversation quotes by 1544 unique authors

Simple and more frequent dates allow both men and women to â€˜shop aroundâ€™ in a way that allows extensive evaluation of the prospects. The old-fashioned… — Dallin H. Oaks
One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some… — Stanislaw Ulam
I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well. — Jennifer Weiner
Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it. — Sonia Sanchez
The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the… — Walter Scott
Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word 'no' without taking it as a… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just… — Judith Martin
While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of suppressed panic in… — Gwynne Dyer
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of… — Emily Post
The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out… — Heinrich Heine
Unlike scandal-monger Ed Kleinâ€™s fantastical No. 1 best-selling narrative about the supposed Blood Feud between the Clintons and the Obamas, Halperâ€™s study is juicy and… — Lloyd Grove
I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great.… — Lynda Barry
You can't answer a kid's question. A kid never accepts any answer. A kid never says, 'Oh, thanks. I get it.'... They just keep coming… — Louis C. K.
Trust doesn't come haphazardly. It really has to be built over time. And that trust has to happen really at times when there isn't a… — Tom Daschle
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're… — Robert A. M. Stern
I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation. — Robert M. Fresco
I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all. I count on… — Ken Wilber
I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy conversation with his… — Richard Rorty
There are credentials for admission to our democratic society [...]. You have to be educated in order to be a participant in our conversation So… — Richard Rorty
There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat… — Joy Williams

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