Quotes About Dialogue

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.

Thus the essence of freedom of opinion is not in mere toleration as such, but in the debate which toleration provides: it is not in the venting of opinion, but in the confrontation of opinion.

Rumo!" said Rumo. "That's right!" Smyke exclaimed. "You Rumo, me Smyke." "You Rumo, me Smyke." Rumo repeated eagerly. "No, no." Smyke chuckled.

When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.

The polarization is such that the conservatives on this side have their prayer meeting and their choir meeting. And the liberals on this side have their prayer meeting and their choir meeting, and the two sides never get together and talk about it. The result is the tearing apart of the fabric of the body of Christ.

That's what Harold said." "Harold—

intrareligious and interreligious. Hinduism interacted

People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.

raramente nos quedamos sin saber qué responder. Es cierto que en ocasiones nos enfrentamos a

neither of us ever rejected out of hand anything the other said.

It is more useful to pay attention to people who disagree with you than to pay attention to those who agree.

This classmate told me that Plato drove this idea home in his dialogue Euthydemus , in which Socrates puts down the Sophists, claiming that a man learns more by "playing" with ideas in his leisure time that by sitting in a classroom. And Plato's successor, that world champion of pleasure, Epicurus, believed in a simple yet elegant connection between learning and happiness: the entire purpose of education was to attune the mind and sense to the pleasures of life.

these conversations typically lead quite quickly to

The text has in it the wizardry of politics—the fact that it is possible for a multitudinous heap of people to build a shared life by doing things with words.

[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

Hello?' said the taxi driver, and I realized that it's all very well having an internal monologue, but it does tend to leave the other person a bit stranded, conversationally.

The turning point for effective communication is actually hearing what is being said, rather than hearing what you want to hear instead.

El tiempo de los violentos ya se acabo ... y ahora es nuestro tiempo, el de la gente civil, el de la gente que quiere construir paz pero con firmeza. Somos suaves y dulces, pacificos y manzos, pero firmes hasta las ultimas consecuencias. Por eso hemos ganado sobre los violentos. Por eso ganaremos sobre la gente que no sabe dialogar. Hemos perdido el miedo desde hace muchos anos, porque nos atenazo demasiado. Animo ... fuerza.

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

Communication is a beautiful thing, when it works.

look at me,' said Fitz. 'You lost me somewhere around "substructive". Is that actually a word?

If we speak of things as inert or inanimate objects, we deny their ability to actively engage and interact with us—we foreclose their capacity to reciprocate our attentions, to draw us into silent dialogue, to inform and instruct us.

Scourge of the Betrayer is as harsh and profane as anything RichardK Morgan or Joe Abercrombie serves up. Fortunately, Saylards has the skills -and the humor - to pull it off. Snappy dialogue, political intrigue, shadycharacters, gripping action sequences, a poor guy that has no idea what he'sgotten himself into... Yeah, there's a lot to like about this debut.