Quotes About Dialogue

I am so focused on the fact that the conversation doesn't address any of the things I think are important. I think our political dialogue in America is distorted and completely off track.

You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.

Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.

If we can't come together, and have conversations and understand our biases and understand that hate, none of us are really the good guys here.

The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real people, how to properly pace a story, how to develop interesting characters.

The problem is that the constitution should have been and was an opportunity, exactly as Moncef Marzouki tried to do, to bring together the secularists and Islamists.

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.

Self-consciousness kills communication.

Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .

The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me.

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas.

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth

Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the process of their dialogic interaction

Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth.

Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.

This is my truth, tell me yours.

Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation.

What are you doing? (Amanda) I'm getting into my car. (Kyrian) You own this?! (Amanda) No. I'm stealing it with the key in my hand. (Kyrian)

Well, I always enjoy a case more once witnesses start quoting Shakespeare, don't you?

Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.

These days, students struggle with conversation. What makes sense is to engage them in it. The more you think about educational technology, with all its bells and whistles, the more you circle back to the simple power of conversation.