Quotes of: Converse Keyword

Conversation, to take another example, is one of the common pleasures of life, but not all conversation is pleasurable. The stutterer finds talking painful, and the listener is equally pained. Persons who are inhibited in expressing feeling are not g...

Pleasure

Although there exist many thousands of subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

Chinese

When your wine is finished, conversation ends; when your money has been spent, you lose your friends.

Serbian

Globalization means standardization. The very rich and the very poor must want the same things, but only the rich can have them.

The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.

Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology

WHEN YOU SNEAK IN LATE AT NIGHT NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU TIP TOE THE THE FLOOR CREAKS LOUDER AND LOUDER THAT'S WHEN YOU REALIZE... "SNEAKING IS NOISY” AND S.I.N IS LOUD!!!!

Friend In Your Pocket "Conversations Session One"

There's a chasm between envy and desire. Envy is like wanting something that's not yours. But desire is different. Desire comes out of wanting what is yours, and still wanting it even if it's not yet there, but it's not envy.

Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas

Would Turner have slept through such terrific drama? Absolutely not! Anyone in my business who slept through that would be a fool. I don't keep office hours.

A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney

Most people feel that the world looks like the photograph. I've always assumed that the photograph is nearly right, but that little bit by which it misses makes it miss by a mile. This is what I grope at.

A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney

He appreciated you. But he couldn't feed your soul for the rest of your life. Can't you just appreciate that he was great for you for that period of time?

Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir

Encouraging employees to interact directly with the environment is just an interesting exercise until you debrief their experiences and encourage reflection.

Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want

A strength is a lot like oxygen. We don't really pay much attention to it - unless it's missing.

Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want

If evangelism is really going to be a value that your church embraces, the church will have to embrace the changes that will take place when evangelism is activated in the church.

Spiritual Conversations: Creating and Sustaining Them Without Being a Jerk

If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.

Mind Is A Myth: Conversations With U.G. Krishnamurti

Thomas's mistake, like most of the behavior he leaked into the world, had been avoidable: to join another human being in a situation that virtually demanded unscripted, spontaneous conversation, and thus to risk total moral and emotional dissolution....

Leaving the Sea

Some people remember the sixties better than others do. Some weren't even there, some who were there were not really there, and some who were not really there were "really there".

Twisted by the Wind: A Journal of Inspirations, Conversations and Imaginations

I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it, if there were not a friend? The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The critic said, but don't you feel awkward about biting the hand that feeds you? I said no, I enjoy just gnawing it up to the shoulder.

We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everyt...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

In my own life, I find myself doing some task - driving or playing golf - and having a conversation with my mother or father, who are both deceased. I don't know if that means I'm mentally ill, but I suspect lots of people do it. And when I hold that...

James Remar

A conversation in which the two parties have different beliefs should never begin with the intention of converting the other party to your own beliefs. Every worthwhile conversation's goal should be to understand the other person's opinions and help ...

Emily Eskowich