324 quotes found
“Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker.”
“Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.”
“In a useful conversation... there is a double coincidence of wants. You have to be interested in what I have to say; I have to be interested in what you have to say. This is an important reason why...”
“Bodisham insisted upon a series of conferences with practically all the Group present and participating. The egg of the world revolution was indeed incubated in meetings very like tutorial classes....”
“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 othersour parents, for instan...”
“During relaxation we drop our guard. Particularly in conversation. Relaxed conversation leads to openness. And in openness we often reveal what should never be revealed.”
“Conversations between people can move like tennis games, swift and unpredictable. There are constant subtle visual and verbal cues, there's innuendo, sarcasm, body language, tone. Everyone occasion...”
“As human being, we live in a perpetual conversation between conversation and violence; what apart from fundamental willingness to be reasonable, can guarantee that we will keep talking to one another?”
“There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.”
“It only needs a desire, not words; to start a conversation.”
“It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in ones self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.”
“Mr Rycroft said nothing. It was so difficult not to say the wrong thing to Captain Wyatt that it was usually safer not to reply at all.”
“Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk.”
“Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.”
“Most people he knew, his wife included, wouldn't make it through an hour on the promise of four sentences. But Frankie Bard was like a camel. She could hold her words for days--as long as she could...”
“He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation.”
“I may just be on the outskirts of being okay.”
“Is that the biggest favor your vocal cords have done to anyone this week?”
“Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they dont have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with.”
“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.”
