Best 825 quotes in «conversation quotes» category

Never criticize, condemn or complain in a conversation with a customer or prospect.

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.

Never have a long conversation with anyone who says "between you and I.

Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.

nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.

No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation

No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

No other practice will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects.

Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

Now I'm in the business and I do have to have these awkward conversations about how I look, how I talk. But I'm still here.

% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making him the object of my thought and the companion of my conversations, is the most amazing thing I ever ran across.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

One thing my dad once said to me, "You either want to be right, or you want to be happy. To be happy, there's gotta be a conversation.

One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.

Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

Our conversation rate has to go up before our conversion rate can go up.

Our gazes met. It seemed an entire conversation took place in that one glance. Each of us saw what we needed to know.

Our rule is: If it makes the parent laugh, and the kid asks why, that can't be an uncomfortable conversation.

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)

Overheard today in restaurant: Can you stop listening to our conversation?

People are actually having conversations about "Is this sexist?

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.

Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.

Prayer is a conversation with God, but prayer is no substitute for work.

Prayer is - loving conversation with the One who has invited us into His embrace.

Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love to get into a conversation with, are Werner Herzog and Graham Hancock.

Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.

Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do.

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between writer and reader, an invaluable exchange of human conditions.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.