Conversation quotations
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- Jarod Kintz99◆ A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
- Truman Capote99◆ The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
- Michel de Montaigne99◆ Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm.
- Antonin Sertillanges99◆ Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.
- Gregory Maguire99◆ A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.
- Lisa Kleypas99◆ More of your conversation would infect my brain.
- William Shakespeare99◆ We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for instance—and they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live.
- Charles Taylor99◆ The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.
- Terry Tempest Williams99◆ Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.
- Cees Nooteboom99◆ Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
- Mark Twain99◆ The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar, I met a man, and within five minutes he explained that he had just been released from prison. Another drinker told me that his wife had passed away, and he had recently suffered a heart attack, and now he hoped that he would die within the year. I learned that there's no reliable small talk in America; at any moment a conversation can become personal.
- Peter Hessler99◆ It's no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,' she muttered.
- Emily Bront?99◆ Once we learn to pray with our hearts, and not our lips ; we truly begin to have a conversation with God.
- 99◆ The awkward moment when you're pretending you're talking to someone on the phone and then it rings.
- Brandon Samuel99
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