Conversation Quotes
2139 Conversation quotes by 1544 unique authors
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Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I…
— Orson Welles
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The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.
— Hayley Atwell
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The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such…
— Frank Church
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There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem…
— Sarah Orne Jewett
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Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And, as in any…
— Pico Iyer
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Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of…
— Pico Iyer
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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our…
— Jack Kornfield
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The real relatedness between two people is experienced in the small tasks they do together: the quiet conversation when the day's upheavels are at rest,…
— Robert A. Johnson
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Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.
— Susan Jacoby
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At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.
— Susan Jacoby
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I don't Twitter. I can't even remember my password name. I have problems with electronics, so what I've done is hire a young man out…
— William Shatner
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The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from…
— David Hare
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All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.
— Sebastian Junger
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My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.
— Kevin Gates
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Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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It deserves and warrants conversation because somebody is saying, 'Hey, this offends me,'
— Darrell Green
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If youre a vegan who ran a marathon & got your dogs from a shelter, how do you decide which thing to wedge into the…
— Ken Jennings
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Andrew Luck, if he gets to his first Super Bowl and he wins that Super Bowl, that means he won on the road every game…
— Charles Woodson
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost…
— Alain de Botton
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As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts…
— Alberto Manguel
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Behind every communication problem is a sweaty ten-minute conversation that you don't want to have.
— Gay Hendricks
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The largest factor in predicting group intelligence was the equality of conversational turn taking; groups where a few people dominated the conversation were less collectively…
— Alex Pentland
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The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to the wider public…
— Winston Churchill
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