Best 825 quotes in «conversation quotes» category

The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.

The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.

The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.

The true language of commerce is the natural conversation between human beings.

The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

To believe in God starts with a conclusion about Him, develops into confidence in Him, and then matures into a conversation with Him.

This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.

Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

This is one of the last industries where the subject is off limits. Nobody’s comfortable in engaging in a conversation.

Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.

Twitter is not a technology. It's a conversation and it's happening with or without you.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.

Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.

Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care.

We don't often have the luxury of time [in Steve Jobs movie ]to have these conversations where you just literally get to sit around for day and days and analyze every line of dialogue.

We change people through conversation, not through censorship.

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.

We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

We should have a conversation when we hang up.

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the richer the dialogue is likely to be.

We've all had those phone conversations. Things are heated, you're in a position where you're gonna say something nasty. Instead, you say, "Oh, I've got that thing in the oven." Lie. Get off the phone. Don't perpetuate a bad situation.

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?

What I can't do is have an intelligent conversation with [George Stephanopoulos] about a report in "The New York Times" that is unnamed, inconclusive, and based on something that isn't true.

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation?

What will support any relationship is clear, complete and conscious conversations when upsets or breakdowns occur.

When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.

Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.

What you gotta understand is, in this conversation and in our fight, you're not in control.

When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation.

When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I've had conversations with journalists that I've never had with anybody else.

When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.

When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.