Converses Quotes - Page 6

• Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, People, Degrees

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.184

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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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• Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings or battles them for our attention; things expose themselves to the sun or retreat among the shadows, shouting with their loud colors or whispering with their seeds; rocks snag lichen spores from the air and shelter spiders under their flanks; clouds converse with the fathomless blue and metamorphose into one another; they spill rain upon the land, which gathers in rivulets and carves out canyons.

  David Abram

  Rain, Blue, Color

  "Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmolog". Book by David Abram, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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• My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Ideas, Two, Minutes

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• Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by writings, sermons, converse, prayers, examples, for all these and all others which I know, which I know not, open, hidden, remembered, and forgotten.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Teacher, Gratitude, Prayer

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• Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to frequent their company in uncomely apparel; but, at the same time, avoid all affectation, vanity, curiosity, or levity in your dress. Keep yourself always, as much as possible, on the side of plainness and modesty, which, without doubt, is the greatest ornament of beauty, and the best excuse for the want of it.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Vanity, Curiosity, Doubt

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• You must know that when you 'hail' Mary, she immediately greets you! Don't think that she is one of those rude women of whom there are so many-on the contrary, she is utterly courteous and pleasant. If you greet her, she will answer you right away and converse with you!

  Bernardino of Siena

  Thinking, Rude, Rosary

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• My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.

  Robert Southey

  Failure, Eye, Mind

  Robert Southey, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1809). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir of the Author”, p.250

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• The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful magic. I should like to state a converse: is not all magic, to the extent that it is successful, geometry?

  Rene Thom

  Successful, Reality, Space

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• 'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts... We must set the soul free from it; we must behold things as they are. And having thus got rid of the foolishness of the body, we shall be pure and hold converse with the pure, and shall in our own selves have complete knowledge of the Incorruptible which is, I take it, no other than the very truth.

  Socrates

  War, Fighting, Self

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• Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Prayer, Angel, Evil

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• So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.

  John Milton

  Dream, Angel, Soul

  John Milton, Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, Arthur Montague D'Urban Hughes (1962). “Milton: Poetry & Prose”

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• I converse with my dog through ESP

  Taylor Caldwell

  Dog, Esp, My Dog

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• It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as if it were a good friend. In modern life we have become so busy with our daily affairs and thoughts that we have lost this essential art of taking time to converse with our heart.

  Jack Kornfield

  Art, Good Friend, Essentials

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.12, Random House

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• For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

  Robert Schumann

  Language, Permit, Music Is

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• The essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities and aspirations, and their sway over the terrestrial or animal passions in him. Kindness, absence of every ill feeling or selfishness, charity, goodwill to all beings, and perfect justice to others as to oneself, are its chief features. He who teaches Theosophy preaches the gospel of goodwill; and the converse of this is true also — he who preaches the gospel of goodwill, teaches Theosophy.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Kindness, Passion, Animal

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• Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers.

  Karen Barad

  Suffering, Desire, Matter

  "New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies". Book by Rick Dolphijn, Iris van der Tuin, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2012.

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• Chose to converse with your Father in Heaven often. Make time every day to share your thoughts and feelings with Him.

  Richard G. Scott

  Father, Heaven, Feelings

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• Christ is our best friend, and ere long will be our only friend. I pray God with all my heart that I may be weary of everything else but converse and communion with Him.

  John Owen

  Heart, Long, May

  John Owen (1970). “The correspondence of John Owen (1616-1683): with an account of his life and work”, Attic Pr

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• You have been created with the ability to change the world. Every single choice you make ... every single action you take ... matters. But remember, the converse is also true. Every choice you do not make ... every action you do not take ... matters just as much.

  Andy Andrews

  Choices, World, Matter

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• Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

  Christopher Lasch

  People, Ordinary, Prejudice

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• Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simple, Simplicity, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• I love good old-fashioned black or white Converse. I have a few pairs. And they are all really dirty. I can't have clean Converse - I go in the dirt and run around!

  Ashley Benson

  Running, Dirty, Naughty

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

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• In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

  Adam Schiff

  War, Inspiration, Moral Leadership

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• I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Religious, Attitude, Athlete

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