Quotes About Dialogue

Always a good listener, FDR was at his best in these exchanges. "I want you to feel that you can come to me at any time in my office," he was soon telling union spokesmen, "and we can talk matters over. Let's get together for I need you to teach me your business and show me what's going on.

I leave you free to imagine any dialogue you please. Choose whatever may charm you. Have it, if you like, that they hear the voice of the blood, or that they fall in love at first sight... Conceive the wildest improbabilities. Have it that the depths of their beings are thrilled at accosting each other in slang. Tangle them suddenly in a swift embrace or a brotherly kiss. Do whatever you like.

T'as parlé le berli du berlu à la corbelle du corbeau ?

people with different ideas from one's own were not the enemy; they were simply people with different ideas. Hearing them out carried, he supposed, some small potential for having one's mind changed, but it was far more likely to strengthen the opinion you already had, so why all the fear?

What kind of protest declines dialogue with its opponent?" "A modern one," Francine said dryly. "These kids are not like we were. You were," she corrected. "Interaction across the battle lines isn't what they're after. They want to build their own constituencies. They want to represent something to their peers more than they want to gain respect from their opponents.

True peace can rarely be imposed from the outside; it must be born within and between communities through meetings and dialogue and then carried outward.

I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

and Boyer has to be on the Jack Nicholson end of the old routine in which he tries to order a slice of cheese that comes only with the apple pie. (Why did no one mention that Five Easy Pieces [1970], with its "hold the chicken salad, just give me the toast" routine, was recycling old-movie dialogue that had appeared in many films?)

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

les moules — comment dit-on—?

Sometimes the best answer to a question is another question. Is it not by asking questions that we stimulate each other to reach more deeply into our own source and, thereby, approach the Source, both together and in our different ways? (7)

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Monkeys can't talk, stupid!

Sometimes insight into character and dialogue means being silent.

The only wealth I'm interested in is a wealth of words.

The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one. Involuntarily

Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him , he liked to say . Therein lies true dialogue . Man asks and God replies . But we don't understand His replies . We cannot understand them . Because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die . The real answers , Eliezer , you will find only within yourself .

Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him, he liked to say. Therein lies true dialogue. Man asks and God replies. But we don't understand His replies. We cannot understand them. Because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die. The real answers, Eliezer, you will find only within yourself. "And

Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him, he liked to say. Therein lies true dialogue. Man asks and God replies. But we don't understand His replies. We cannot under-stand them. Because they dwell in the depths of our souls and re-main there until we die. The real answers, Eliezer, you will find only within yourself. And why do you pray, Moishe? I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.

The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one. Involuntarily I began to talk.

You speak Quichua better than we do," said Wakcha, a proud young Indian who always wore a pith helmet, a sign of great prestige among his people. "You hear us too well. We are talking away, saying to ourselves, 'They do not hear,' and then you answer us!

Thought it was funny to answer his phone by saying, "You DID?

Me asusta un poco, pero también me deja asombrada. No sé qué hacer, así que tengo un diálogo interno con la energía. Le digo: «Creo en ti» y me responde magnificándose, aumentando de volumen.

just because people can hear each other across the divide does not mean they can necessarily understand each other