Quotes About Dialogue

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That's what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.

We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.

How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?

My hope is that my personal testimony can help in some way to not only advance the dialogue and approve Referendum 74, but also to help shape a culture of belonging in which ALL people are equal.

Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.

There should be a spirit of dialogue. Whenever we see any disagreements, we must think how to solve them on the basis of recognition of oneness of the entire humanity. This is the modern reality.

The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

Zane raised his brow. "Didn't I say that yesterday?" he asked, forcinghimself to be patient. Somehow."You say that like you think I listen to you, " Ty responded instantly, asmile pulling at his lips.

Rachel opened her mouth to respond, but the head cut her off.

No one asked your opinion O'Brien, " the red-haired one snapped again."No one ever asks yours either, that doesn't seem to stop you from giving it, " he countered.

He swallowed his food this time and actually spoke instead of humphing,

If you want to convince a criminal to see things your way, start by seeing things theirs.

I confronted the fact that I was not only talking to a dog, but answering for one.

Hark, " he said, his tone very dry. "What stone through yonder window breaks?"Kami yelled up at him, "It is the east, and Juliet is a jerk!

I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.