Top 1200 Good Conversation Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

We need a grownup conversation about why our political economy is killing life on Earth.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

Unless you work in HR, it's not your responsibility to necessarily police and monitor workplace conversation.

Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.

I don't think I'd hold back if I ever had a conversation with anybody that truly passed up on me.

Brexit has given us the start of a conversation with people who perhaps haven't traditionally voted Conservative.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.

I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.

There's no conversation happening between plus-size women and designers. The door is never open.

We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot.

To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!

Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?

When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby.

We need a more substantive conversation around race relations and the way people of color are treated.

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

My sister, brother, and I are 180 degrees different. Having a conversation with them, you have to tread lightly.

All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.

A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city.

The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual diary.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.

There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

When it comes up with my age, I'm like, let's just end the conversation there. That's irrelevant to me. I'll pitch until I'm 40.

You have one conversation with Clint Eastwood, and you realize how cool of a guy he is. He can get down to anyone's level.

I'd like to be with someone kind who can hold a conversation and is in my age group. If that's too much to ask, I'll do without.

I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.

The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

We need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government.

The conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow.

It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.

All of this conversation about chat and assistance lays the groundwork for what I would look at as the future of commerce.

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.

You have to look in the mirror and really have an honest conversation with yourself and find the discipline to not eat things that don't agree with you.

That conversation... was as dirty as a sewer! It is not enough for you to take no part in it. You must show your repugnance for it strongly!

Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain.

Informal conversation is probably the oldest mechanism by which opinions on products and brands are developed, expressed, and spread.

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his nap, slumped, open-mouthed, profoundly himself without thought for appearances. Yet, this is not quite true. Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In conversation, those uneasy eyes upon you, those lips ready with an emendation before you have begun to speak, are a powerful deterrent to unreality, even to hope.

When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.

Beauty has always been an element of discussion for black women, whether or not we were the ones having the conversation.

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it.

There's only so much you can talk about football. Anytime you can get into a conversation that's not political, it's a welcome change.

I think the conversation about sex is one that never grows old and is one that people are always drawn to.

True friendship is sitting together in silence and feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.