Quotes About Dialogue

Cultivate friends you disagree with, as well as those with whom you agree, because together you'll locate the soft spots in your own thinking and find common ground to build on.

Listening is more important than talking. If that were not true, God would not have given us two ears and only one mouth. Too many people think with their mouth instead of listening in order to absorb new ideas and possibilities. They argue instead of asking questions. I

Our discussions ran late into the night

He really did not hear me when I said

Listening is more important than talking.

There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.

Making a--new--excuse me. Did you say language? Yes. What's the matter with English? Isn't it good enough for you, you incomprehensible little being?

figure the reason you don't have much to say is you probably never met a man who liked to hear a woman talk.

You know more than you say and I say more than I know. That means we're a perfect match, as long as we don't hang around one another more than an hour at a stretch.

Of course Gus was a great blabber, but his blabbing wasn't really like the chattering the other sports did. He was just full of opinion, which he freely poured out, as much for his own amusement as for anything.

She tries to figure out how to say it so he hears her.

let's go said he not too far said she what's too far said he where you are said she) —e. e. cummings

One day in the woods he met an Indian. They stood in the wet, cold woods and looked at each other, and they could not talk because they did not know each other's words.

This was the second time I'd asked about his wife. I seemed to be speaking English, but perhaps my questions were really Swahili and I just didn't realize it.

Don't talk about yourself too much, don't dominate the conversation, get him comfortable enough to chat about his favorite and most familiar topic: him.

This, thought Charlotte despairingly, was the problem with the world outside the cover of a book. She couldn't craft Robert's dialogue for him, putting the words she wanted to say into his lips. She couldn't control the direction of his emotions. All she could do was attempt to discipline her own.

ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question? Pray, what was your father saying?—Nothing.

You opened a debate. You can't close if just because it is not going your way. -David Petrakis

Pray tell," she said, although her voice told him not to. He ignored her tone, let out a thoughtful cloud of smoke, and said, ...

You got to ask a street question to get a street answer.

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?

Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in fact the case.

Science and religion will meet and shake hands.

There can be no truce between science and religion.