Quotes About Dialogue

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.

Listen twice as much as you talk, since you were born with two ears and one mouth.

The degeneration of conversation into monologue, dogmatic assertion, is barbarism.

Strike, but hear me.

Reading through the reviews, I feel as though I am witnessing a much more erudite and informed preview of the Fox News/MSNBC shouting matches of today.

Writing is a communication.

life could have been different if the meetings which have decided its course had been less silent, superficial or routine, if more thoughts had been exchanged, if humanity had been more able to show itself in them

Numai atunci cand vor invata sa dialogheze oamenii vor incepe sa fie egali.

Hammy: did that rat get away? Theoniono: WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Hammy: oh ok...

You might have thought the colonel would be interested in my experiences of five years' barbarism, but he wasn't. I wasn't long in discovering that it is a rare person in the white world who wants to hear what the other fellow says, all the more so when the other fellow really knows what he is talking about.

the soul of conversation is sympathy

Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

It was eventually named "the sub-commission on the historical dimension to implement a dialogue with the aim to restore mutual confidence between the two nations, including an impartial scientific examination of the historical records and archives to define existing problems and formulate recommendations.

Nearly everything faith-related that I have done at Harvard has been followed by free food, from going to services at Harvard's Episcopal Chaplaincy to attending a day of interfaith discussion and dialogue hosted by the university chaplains in the fall.

I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them.

We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time.

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

From the end of 2006 until the end of 2008 I think I met with Abu Mazen more often than any Israeli leader has ever met any Arab leader. I met him more than 35 times. They were intense, serious negotiations.

What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.

I did Shakespeare in college, and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.' I want to get the dialogue just spot-on.