Quotes About Dialogue

What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.

I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.

People who listen to NPR are forever thanking the hosts for 'sharing,' or 'initiating a dialogue,' or 'taking the time to explain this very important issue.'

I grew up in a household where we talked about the state of the world over breakfast, lunch and dinner.

If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I'll want to give you the business. It's human nature.

The church can challenge society, but society also challenges the church. That's good. We should be humble enough to be able to accept that.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

It is already hard enough to understand what someone is saying. Discussion is just an exercise in narcissism where everyone takes turns showing off. Very quickly, you no longer have any idea what is being discussed.

I hate people who start conversations with facts—what are you supposed to do with that? Sure is hot today. Yes, it is.

Speaking up is important. Yet to speak up without listening is like banging pots and pans together: Even if it gets you attention, it's not going to get you respect.

I, of course, replied with the golden tongue of a horse seller. Uh ... Uh ... But ...

Small places live on small talk, but sometimes the happenings can be too lean for everybody to get enough fat out of it to chew over.

It is infinitely harder to ask questions in such a way that the audience is led not to the answers (the province of the demagogue) but to new perceptions.

When Franklin says yes, yes, yes, he isn't agreeing with you. He's just listening to you.

every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we stumble from phrase to phrase with endless repetition.

Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time.

her? I wonder. "Tom?" I say, taking advantage of

said when he came back inside. "I was telling Elan before you came home

It takes two to know one.

Una volta un uomo saggio - un musulmano, badate bene - mi ha detto di sentirsi più vicino a un ebreo, a un cristiano, a un buddhista o persino a un ateo razionale e ragionevole che a un fanatico della sua stessa religione. E sono d'accordo con Winston Churchill, secondo il quale un fanatico è una persona che non cambia opinione e non è capace di cambiare argomento

Did anyone ever tell you you've got a very peculiar way of putting things?

Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.

What is happened in the years since the Second World War is not a temporary truce. It is not simply a ceasefire. Instead of battling with weapons and armaments, people battle only with arguments and ideas.