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Quotes About Dialogue

This dialogue between the subject and the object, where the subject takes the sense scattered across the object and the object gathers together the subjec's intentions, namely, physiognomic perception, arranges a world around the subject that speaks to him on the topic of himself and places his own thoughts in the world.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
In all dialogue there is an element of concrete universality.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The fact was, if you paid attention, people tried to persuade each other all the time. It was all they did.
~ Max Barry
It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.
~ Max Barry
A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.
~ Maximilian Schell
The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.
~ Meša Selimovi?
and sometimes I looked back at him doing the same expression myself just to see what he'd say.
~ Meg Rosoff
they talked day and night, as though inside them an endless scroll of paper were unraveling out through the mouth.
~ Meg Wolitzer
illustrations of anthropomorphic piles of resin with dialogue bubbles above them: "Hello there, I'm Frankincense. Well, technically I'm Frankincense's monster, but everyone gets that wrong." One
~ Meg Wolitzer
She talked, he nodded. She was satisfied. He was oblivious.
~ Megan Hart
They have a quick verbal exchange but only get to cover the alphabet from A to F, outdoing each other with the most choice of words.
~ Melina Marchetta
How is it that she spoke to you of such things?" Quintana asked. "Oh, you know. She opened her mouth and words came out.
~ Melina Marchetta
and how sometimes when she can't get her clients talking about what happened over there she'll get a map of the country, an appropriate map for their world, and pinpoint where they last lived, where their family went missing. Sometimes they would be reluctant to talk, but when they saw the map they would point to a place and say, "There. My village," and that's how their dialogue would begin. With a sense of place.
~ Melina Marchetta
silence from one party always resulted in information from another.
~ Melina Marchetta
We have been given two ears but a single mouth, in order that we may hear more and speak less.
~ Unknown
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
~ Menander
Escutar também é falar.
~ Mia Couto
O velho acenou fingindo perceber. Fica mal um homem perguntar explicação de prosa alheia.
~ Mia Couto
The tour of the amusement park–like campus included a chat with Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. I shared with him Israel's concerns about Google Earth, the global mapping program, which terrorists had used as a targeting device. Google Earth, Schmidt explained, was designed to bring people closer together. "Yes," I acknowledged, "but does it have to bring Hezbollah closer to my children?
~ Michael B. Oren
If you are a true logos and I am a true logos, then there is the possibility of the dia-logos—a true dialogue...What is true dialogue in a world like ours? Our world is drowning in communication, but starving for genuine communio—the union of true communion...Profound communion, the flow of celestial language, becomes possible when we are speaking on the firm foundation of the Logos, the Word who became flesh, the One who redeemed the universe.
~ Unknown
Accustomed to being listened to, he did not courteously intersperse his comments with questions about Elijah's life and work. He simply held forth.
~ Unknown
There's a dialogue between the self and the soul", he said. "They aren't enemies. More like two lenses trying to get in focus.
~ Unknown
The time has come to dialogue on every side, to build bridges. Too long have we walked backward into the future, obsessed with our past, trapped within it. The human race is now approaching a quantum leap forward. We must turn and face the future. This and this alone will ensure the saving of the planet!" "And what is our part in this?
~ Unknown
the lively sport of conversation.
~ Unknown