Quotes About Dialogue

The best way of evangelizing is not to tell the potential convert, "Here's what's wrong with your tradition." The best way to evangelize is to show that potential convert, "Here's what's right with my tradition; here's how it prompts toward action; here's how it consoles.

Anti-Jewish and potentially anti-Jewish rhetoric goes unnoticed in so much Christian scholarship because the authors are not attuned to how their words sound to different ears. The

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

as in Welles' pictures (or in Renoir's) through depth of focus but by virtue of a diabolic speed of vision which seems for the first time to be wedded here to the pure rhythm of attention. Undoubtedly all good editing takes this into consideration. The traditional device of shot-reverse-shot divides up the dialogue according to an elementary syntax of interest.

The sound of a windshield-wiper against a page of Diderot is all it took to turn it into Racinian dialogue

La lectura de un buen libro es un diálogo incesante, en que el libro habla y el alma escucha.

La parte difficile, in una discussione, non è difendere la propria opinione, quanto conoscerla.

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We talk about things. We talk about nothing.

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

A poem, novel or play that does not in some sense relate to previous texts is, in fact, literally unimaginable.

The very ground on which the structure of 20th-century fundamentalist theology and politics was built has crumbled into sand. The reason for which modern fundamentalism was created—in opposition to modernism and liberal theology—has been swept away in the avalanche of new ideas, in new dialogue between different faith traditions.

I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.

It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks.

For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue.

Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with Tony Blair, with Peter Mandelson... talking about Europe, talking about political reform.

When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight.

The mixture of weird textures and organic surfaces creates an interesting dialogue.

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.

Leaders don't change their positions mid-debate. They welcome scorn from the masses because it creates the opportunity for dialogue.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

I'm not someone that loves dialogue - I am someone that loves movement. Action, if it's well done, can be very poetic and meaningful.

Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live.