Conversation Quotes - Page 25

• There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism.

  Arthur Miller

  Ideas, Tragedy, Pessimism

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.

  Henry James

  Rome, Branches, Might

  Henry James (2016). “The Turn of the Screw”, p.71, First Avenue Editions

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• No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.

  Dean Acheson

  Men, Second Best, Memorandum

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• Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.

  Isabel Allende

  Sex, Soul, Said

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• I am worried that the next generation will not be able to have a real conversation.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Real, Generations, Able

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• Never say anything in writing that you wouldn't comfortably say in conversation. Be yourself when you write. If you're not a person who says 'indeed' or 'moreover,' or who calls someone an individual ('he's a fine individual'), please don't write it.

  William Zinsser

  Being Yourself, Writing, Say Anything

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• I had often joked in my speeches that I had imaginary conversations with Mrs. Roosevelt to solicit her advice on a range of subjects. It's actually a useful mental exercise to help analyze problems, provided you choose the right person to visualize. Eleanor Roosevelt was ideal.

  Hillary Clinton

  Exercise, Advice, Speech

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2004). “Living History”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't feel old. Okay, maybe I do when I get in a conversation with Earl Thomas, who was born in 1989.

  Matt Hasselbeck

  Born, Okay, Feels

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• Industry stakeholders have said to us, which we've heard loud and clear, as we move forward on the climate change discussions we need to do it with a clear eye on the fact that we are also having conversations around royalties and the two can't be separated.

  Rachel Notley

  Change, Moving, Eye

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• It's not like I'm an introvert. You get to know me, I can have a conversation with you. But in front of the media, I'm probably more of a quiet guy.

  Derrek Lee

  Media, Guy, Quiet

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• We have had a chance to travel to all 56 counties in this state, and I have had the chance to sit around with cups of coffee and having conversations about what matters to Montanans.

  Steve Daines

  Coffee, What Matters, Cups

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• We grew up creating this whole world view for ourselves because it's not there in the culture. What am I? And I have to build this world view in the absence of books, radio and television, anything, even conversation, Mom or Dad or brother or sister or friends. I have to build a world view of who I am or I go stark, raving mad. Every transsexual in the past has had to do this.

  Kate Bornstein

  Mom, Brother, Dad

  "Gender Outlaws". Interview with Nancy Reynolds Nangeroni and Mariette Pathy Allen, www.gendertalk.com.

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• Without prolonged moments of adoration, of prayerful encounter with the word, of sincere conversation with the Lord, our work easily becomes meaningless; we lose energy as a result of weariness and difficulties, and our fervor dies out. The Church urgently needs the deep breath of prayer, and to my great joy groups devoted to prayer and intercession, the prayerful reading of God's word and the perpetual adoration of the Eucharist are growing at every level of ecclesial life.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Reading, Joy

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.75, SPCK

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• I feel bad [about Lil Wayne going to jail], because I don't think anything like this has happened in music since Elvis got drafted into the Army. Let's just keep it real - Lil Wayne is not just the biggest rapper, Lil Wayne is the biggest pop star right now. Maybe Susan Boyle is on his level. But when you talk about music, nice times out of ten, Lil Wayne's name is gonna come into the conversation.

  Bun B

  Stars, Real, Nice

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• When Prince Charles speaks, everybody pretends to be fascinated, even though he has never said anything interesting except in that intercepted telephone conversation wherein he expressed the desire to be a feminine hygeine product.

  Dave Barry

  Interesting, Desire, Telephones

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.103, Ballantine Books

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• I carry condoms in my purse, even though I haven't had sex in a long time. I'm hoping for luck! And I carry them so I can give them to other people who might want or need them, or who might want to have a conversation.

  Sharon Stone

  Sex, Long, People

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• Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.

  Richard Rohr

  Simple, Climbing, Games

  "Gender, God and Spirituality" by Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2012.

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• Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean a lot to me, just interesting, so I both embrace and attack the ideas because I found them, well, delightful.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Reading, Writing, Mean

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

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• Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of conversation between society and biology has always been a policeman or a soldier and his gun.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Gun, Soldier, Patterns

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• Don't steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.

  Bill Hybels

  Way, Credibility

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• It does not take long to tell where a man's treasure is. In fifteen minutes' conversation with most men, you can tell whether their treasures are on the earth or in Heaven.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Men, Long, Heaven

  Dwight L Moody (1995). “Heaven”, p.88, Moody Publishers

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• First of all, I should preface this by the observation that artists are not the best judges of what they've done and the word definitive does not belong, in my opinion, in any conversation about art. When somebody says it's the "definitive" something, I'm always recoiling.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Art, Judging, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• I've never seen a professor of religion on television before, and I thought that was fascinating. The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation.

  Tim Daly

  Creative, Television, World

  Source: collider.com

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• As dancers, especially for myself, personally, dance constitutes a lot of the conversation that I have. While I'm not a ridiculous wordsmith and I can't clearly verbalize the things that I'm feeling sometimes, I'd say that I can emote how I feel by dancing, 100% of the time, and fearlessly at that.

  Stephen Boss

  Dancing, Dancer, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

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• Dance removes you from this construct of the world that you have, and it's a conversation that you're having with people. That's how dance grew, as an art form.

  Stephen Boss

  Art, People, World

  Source: collider.com

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