Quotes About Dialogue

I think all of society should be a think-tank where you throw ideas about. I had hoped the Internet would help. Actually, what it has done is make everybody go schtum. They're attacked for saying anything. So they say nothing.

Art is a dialogue. I'm throwing rocks across a chasm and hoping people catch them on the other side.

You ought to dialogue first before you start throwing spears. And I think the U.N. provides an opportunity for dialogue.

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue.

Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.

I have always done my bit to improve Indo-Pak ties, but sometimes you say something, and it is interpreted the other way.

Hear the other side.

Hear the other side. (Audi Partem Alteram)

The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.

Mutual INTRIGUE is the key to turning frustrating, waste-of-time, one-way communications into productive, rewarding two-way connections.

As historical texts become rich and conceptually dense, readers may slow down not because they fail to comprehend, but because the very act of comprehension demands that they stop to TALK with their texts. In plain English, they pretend to deliberate with others by talking to themselves.

I saw how important it is not to shun those with whom we disagree. As the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once said, 'We must always seek the truth in our opponent's error and the error in our own truth.' This is just as important in our domestic politics as in our foreign dealings.

It takes two people to say a thing--a sayer and a sayee. The one is just as essential to any true saying as the other.

You know, I've always wanted to ask one of these guys a question and really corner them and get them to answer a question for once instead of tap dancing around it. And unfortunately I asked the question, but I still got a tap dance. Almost as good as Sammy Davis Jr.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

War is always a contest of words as well as of wounds.

I'm using "discourse" in an older sense: discourse as response, understanding, discourse as structure both conscious and unconscious: not dialogue, but what impels and structures dialogue: not the "discourse between …" but the "discourse of …

Who am I talking to other than myself here? Someone I hope who at least knows my languages.

Why don't you and I have a nice penetrating man-to-man conversation?

Can we talk?" "Fuck off." "Good. You're willing to cooperate.

Sutton, I have to talk to you," Mr. Mercer said... "I'm sorry," she said preemptively. "You don't even know what I'm going to say yet.

Always talk, talk, talk with you people," Pearl said. "You know, sometimes violence really is the answer.

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.