Top 1200 Good Conversation Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I'm not a Trump guy, but I do like what he's done with political speak. He's changed the conversation quite a bit. It's interesting to watch that happen.

It is true that it feels very differently to enjoy a good meal, taking part in an interesting conversation, or to think of how successful your children are. Suppose we do all these things at a particular time. How happy are we at the time? We do not need to calculate the value of each such feelings on any singular scale to answer this question. We need not see our happiness at the time as a mathematical function of these items. It is rather that all these experiences, together with many other factors, causally puts us at the time at a certain level of happiness, i.e. in a certain mood.

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

We act like God's only good when the outcome is good. We say, 'We've got a good God because I've got a good job.' But what if I don't have a good job? Does that mean God's not good anymore?

So, destroy?" Cal asked. Clearly, the conversation was giving his two brain cells a serious workout.

Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.

I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent!

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

The Conversation was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in love with books.

'The Conversation' was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.

A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.

Men have just come up to me and asked for my number right away. That doesn't work. You have to know somebody and have a conversation.

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

Every Easter, at one household or another, I find a battle begins and the conversation of how to 'properly eat' a chocolate bunny.

Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don't think we necessarily need that whole conversation.

The greatest use of your words is prayer. Talk to God about EVERYTHING, all the time. Maintain a running conversation.

Jon Davis of Korn and Frank Mullen of Suffocation are one of my favorite bands and from that moment, we started a conversation and lead to the song.

No other practice will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects.

I think unless we have an honest conversation about race and identity in this country, we're never going to get anywhere.

God knew where he was, but he asked so as to start a conversation with Adam and avoid startling him too much to reply.

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

We need to have a conversation about the fact that black faces are not as visible as they should be, that there is huge inequality everywhere in terms of race.

I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation

It's almost impossible that an argument would naturally form the kind of arch that it does in 'Lifespan'. So, the conversation is constructed.

I've felt since I was a kid this desperate longing to be closer to - I don't know what. Just to something bigger, to be in conversation with the mystery of everything.

I always tell people, good coaches are a dime a dozen. Good coaches that are good people, good husbands, good fathers, that love their players and are passionate about doing things in a way that I believe is important, that pool gets real small.

There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

As a member of the often maligned fourth estate, it is so refreshing to have a conversation instead of a buttoned up interview in a stifling studio.

The first conversation I ever had about the Internet was in 1993 with Robert Wright, who was then a colleague at the 'New Republic.'

Eat without the TV going on. Learn to appreciate food with only the entertainment of conversation-yours and someone else's.

The fact is that [Hillary Clinton] has been the person who started this type of conversation in the campaign. She should be ashamed of herself.

I, for myself, have wanted to get more into producing because I want to be a part of the conversation and be one of the voices in the story we're trying to tell.

I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.

Negative feelings can either lead to sinking into oneself and disappearing, or they can make you angry and want to prove that you're worthy to be in the conversation.

I feel like when there's so much conversation about women's athletics right now, we need to focus on their performance and their skill.

If we exchange bombs for bread there will be less reason for wanting to kill us. I just want to have the conversation.

I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty.

Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.

I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.

My concept of a perfect date, really, is just as long as conversation is fun, and you can be yourselves and feel comfortable around each other.

Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.

The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.

Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies

The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's 'How are your parents doing?'

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.

Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

My starting point is always to read a script and have a conversation with the director about what their vision is, and then, after that, I love to do research.

If I've learned anything, it's there's just no drama, which is awesome. I've also just learned to read when it's a good time to talk about something serious and when it's not. And whenever I start to have a conversation with them, and I kind of see their eyes start to glaze over, I'm like, 'Okay, another time is better.' You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation.