You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
The English-language press in India supports the project of corporate globalization fully. It has no time for dispossession and drought and farmers' debts, the ravages that the corporate globalization project is wreaking on the poor of India. So to s...
The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life—if indeed we can conceive of it. Yet we have no indication that even Jesus was constantly awash with revelations as to what he should do. His union with the ...
I thought I was over him! So why did my heart still rip? Why did I still feel this sorrow? I got this strange sensation that God was with me. And he was angry. He was very angry--not at me and not at Jack. God was angry at the pain I was going throug...
Where had they learned to converse and to dance? I couldn't converse or dance. Everybody knew something I didn't know. The girls looked so good, the boys so handsome. I would be too terrified to even look at one of those girls, let alone be close to ...
I want to be the guy in a movie who's, I don't know, out walking his rabbit on a leash (I don't have a rabbit) and knows exactly how to strike up a quirky, compelling conversation. Though maybe if you're walking a rabbit on a leash, you don't even ha...
In the case of Tunisia, it was indeed this single act that sparked what had been long-standing active protest movements and moved them forward. But that's not so unusual. Let's look at our own history. Take the civil rights movement. There had been p...
It's the most essential thing of all just because it's not a matter of how you do it at all, but of whether you do it. Like being born, or cooking: how you do it is less important than whether you do it. You can find thousands of books on prayer that...
No one is charismatic. Someone becomes charismatic in history, socially. The question for me is once again the problem of humility. If the leader discovers that he is becoming charismatic not because of his or her qualities but because mainly he or s...
The best kind of conversation is that which may be called .
We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends.
Conversely, I though humiliation would be everything, but it´s such a nothing.
The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.
Every person has something meaningful to say in the conversation of life.
CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change.
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
Jeez, you’re strong.” And you, Sam, are a conversational reject.
And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
