Top 1200 Good Conversation Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

I love fantasizing about what my next meal is going to be; it's probably my favorite topic of conversation.

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

Behind every communication problem is a sweaty ten-minute conversation that you don't want to have.

America does, in the future, need to have a conversation with and try to move forward with Russia.

Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.

Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.

We should always be having a conversation about if we could make this country more inclusive and what we can do to do that.

In Spain we have a saying about the essentials of life: good food, good wine, good sex, good sleep.

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

I have no ambitions at all! I have none... seriously. I want to be a good father. I want to be a good husband. I want to be a good son, a good brother, a good family member. I don't have any ambition to direct a film or write a play. I like acting.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

People with big personalities are best in the center of the table. They can help carry the conversation from that place.

My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.

I once interviewed Anthony Burgess on the radio. I played pop records between the conversation.

A lot of people especially want to know about going into business. But it's a two-way conversation.

When you're in a conversation, genuinely be in it. Stare people in their eyes. Know what you're talking about. Enjoy that moment.

I'm a sports idiot - watching it, playing it, making conversation about it - I got nothing.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.

I didn't grow up in a household where dinner conversation was, 'How did the market do today?'

I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction.

It deserves and warrants conversation because somebody is saying, 'Hey, this offends me,'

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

The most important ingredient of Sunday lunch is the conversation. Without that, it's dead and gone.

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.

Nowadays, hoy en día, with our world full of war and violence and lack of love, a world full of greed, a world of domination, grasping power, venal stupidity, real evil, don’t get me started, it’s good to know that a conversation about tacos will always engender a sense of comfort and happiness. If only we could sit down at a big round world table and eat tacos in a spirit of love we might begin to work on world peace!

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

Always say less than you think you need. Inject some space into the conversation.

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

I would not be good with someone who did drugs. As long as I know something, I can deal with anything. I'm really good. But what I'm not good with is inconsistency. And I'm not good with not knowing.

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

Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

The phone conversation where I haven't had a smoke, it's like trying to talk without using adverbs.

Every rippling muscle is a book not read, a movie not seen, or a conversation not held.

Food is language. It helped me to open up the conversation on other things.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. As long as you stick to good, you'll never have real growth.

I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation.

I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.

I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way.

I am often attracted to people with whom I could not hold a five minute conversation.

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven; therefore, if poverty be good, they shall have it; if disgrace be good, they shall have it; if crosses be good, they shall have them; if misery be good, they shall have it; for all is ours, to serve for our greatest good.

There was never a moment when I was like, 'I'm going to enter the public conversation on the importance of female nudity.'

She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that no meant no, but that's it.

That's the point, to get the people who wouldn't otherwise think to eavesdrop on a conversation that involves science.

If you never mention the Lord in conversation with each other,isn't that proof that you aren't so concerned about Him?