Converses Quotes - Page 5

• Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.

  Ueda Akinari

  Heart, Men, Shapes

  "Tales of Moonlight and Rain". Book by Ueda Akinari, www.newyorker.com. 1776.

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• Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Sweet, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2657, Delphi Classics

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• The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Design, Experience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.243, Bantam Classics

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• Trust me, it takes talent to converse with a cat

  Jacquelyn Frank

  Cat, Talent, Trust Me

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• The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

  Joseph Addison

  Laughter, Men, Littles

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.147

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• Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
  Think each in each, immediately wise;
  Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
  What this tumultuous body now denies;
  And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
  And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.

  Rupert Brooke

  Wise, Eye, Thinking

  Rupert Brooke (2010). “Collected Poems”, p.114, The Oleander Press

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• It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.

  Rebecca West

  Desire, Different, Succeed

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• No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Conversation, Qualified

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• Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.

  Alexander Pope

  Knaves, Next

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.129

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• We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.

  William H. Gass

  Doe, Elements, World

  William H. Gass (1978). “The world within the word: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.

  James F. Cooper

  Principles, Visionaries, Way

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

  John Adams

  Love, Children, Hero

  John Adams, Margaret A. Hogan (2007). “My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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• Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

  Jonathan Swift

  Art, People, Literature

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• Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my grievances and indecencies, be reminded in private of your own. In that way, at least, we can hold a kind of converse.

  Frederick Buechner

  Love, Thinking, Age

  Frederick Buechner (1970). “The alphabet of grace”

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• There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

  Philip Larkin

  Writing, Pity, Good Authors

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica”, Faber & Faber

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• The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, May, Invention

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• One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.

  Deanna Raybourn

  Weather, Knowing, Born

  Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Dark Road to Darjeeling”, p.69, MIRA

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• Our faith is concentrated in the Son of God, and through him in the Father; and the Holy Ghost is their minister to bring truths to our remembrance, to reveal new truths to us, and teach, guide, and direct the course of every mind, until we become perfected and prepared to go home, where we can see and converse with our Father in Heaven.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Home, Son

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”

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• I'm sort of a reverse Method actor. In my personal life, I become my characters. After 'One Tree Hill', I started dressing in Converse and ripped jeans and hoodies. On 'Awkward', it manifests in how I speak.

  Ashley Rickards

  Character, Jeans, Tree

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.

  Kevin Whately

  Alzheimer's, Circles, Way

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• To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Men, Looks

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• At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Philosophy, Opposites, And Love

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• To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Morning, Crazy, Snakes

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• Humility mainly becometh the converse of man with his Maker.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Humility, Men, Makers

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1867). “Proverbial Philosophy: (the First and Second Series)”, p.57

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• I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts, because I have the time to converse with the Lord Jesus.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Jesus, Suffering, Thank God

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