Best 825 quotes in «conversation quotes» category

David [Cameron] has been an outstanding friend and partner on the global stage and, based on our conversation, I'm confident that the UK is committed to an orderly transition out of the EU.

Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.

Diplomacy is not merely talking somebody into something; it's talking to somebody from a position of strength. You put your power on the table to open up the conversation; that's diplomacy.

Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really.

Don't steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.

Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high

Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen to the conversation in which human beings forever seek to understand themselves.

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work.

Every conversation I have almost always revolves around, you know, personnel and policy focused on producing results.

Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.

Even if I'm not so into the specific celebrities who are sharing images of themselves looking "bad," I think it's an amazing contribution to the conversations about beauty that we have online.

gossip is just the small change of conversation.

Feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process...

Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?

Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.

Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.

For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have a conversation over it.

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.

Good-bye broadcast, Hello, conversation.

Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.

Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.

Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness.

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

... he trotted down the hallway on all fours and started in on his second favorite pastime, conversations with plumbing. Just what I needed: Stone, the Toilet Whisperer.

He tried to listen to the conversations going on at the table and he found that he could no longer concentrate on what anyone was saying and which was worse that he was not interested in any of what he was able to hear.

He died in the middle of our conversation. How rude.

He strains his conversation through a cigar.

He was right. They could have a whole conversation without exchanging a word. And the conversation they had right now went like this: Colin, shut it. I don’t think I will, M. Then I’ll make you. Really? How?I’m not certain, but it will be slow and painful. And I won’t leave any evidence.

How often one talks not to hear what the other person has got to say, but to hear what one has got to say oneself!

His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.

How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off.

I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent!

I am often attracted to people with whom I could not hold a five minute conversation.

I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else.

I can read your body language like a conversation

I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels.