Converse Quotes
158 quotes by 146 authors
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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene,…
— John Adams
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss…
— William Penn
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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
— Denis Diderot
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"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence…
— Maria Montessori
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Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with…
— Max Beerbohm
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To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament of the Altar to give…
— Teresa of Avila
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a…
— George Boole
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Many can argue - not many converse.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is…
— Yoshida Kenko
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There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much…
— Clifford Truesdell
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Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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It is pleasant to spend time with Him, to lie close to His breast like the Beloved Disciple and to feel the infinite love present…
— Pope John Paul II
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My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live…
— Jonathan Swift
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I can't count how many pairs of Converse shoes I own.
— Selena
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We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the…
— Hannah Arendt
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I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came…
— Sharad Pawar
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If (O.J. Simpson) is acquitted, I will renounce my citizenship. And if I converse with him at a cocktail party, I will say, 'Well, there…
— Dick Cavett
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Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish, plan,…
— Horatius Bonar
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I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts, because I have the time to converse with the Lord Jesus.
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
Who Wrote These Converse Quotes
146 authors contributed a total of 158 Converse Quotes, led by these top contributors: