Quotes About Dialogue

And dispute ye not with the People of the Book, except with means better [than mere disputation], unless it be with those of them who inflict wrong [and injury]: but say, "We believe in the revelation which has come down to us and in that which came down to you; Our Allah and your Allah is one; and it is to Him we bow [in Islam].

Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings… The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings first gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they're arguing.

Argue like you're right and listen like you're wrong. ?

At length, in depth, their spirited exchange culminated in a mutual exclaim of Party understanding.

Talk is what we have, what makes us distinctive. Talk to us is what webs are to a spider, or speed to a gazelle.' 'Talk is how we bring what's inside our minds into the outside world,' Albie said. 'Animals have feelings and thoughts. Animals have always had feelings and thoughts – it's just that only now have they been able to bring them out.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Let's talk sense to the American people.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

This is the oppressor's language yet I need it to talk to you.

because in times like these to have you listen at all, it's necessary to talk about trees.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

Changing age old patriarchal mindsets is a difficult long process and involves constant communication and dialogue.

When you hear someone talking in a restaurant or overhear someone talking on the street, there are very different patterns of conversation than you would hear in a conventional movie.

I don't want to interview people. I want to have a conversation. I want to talk to Paul McCartney about the bass sound on 'The White Album.'

We need to start talking, to each other, about the issues that matter most. Otherwise, we are just pawns in the game of politics.

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

Displays of force in response to mostly peaceful demonstrations can be counterproductive.

You see in comedy - performance is the cake and dialogue is like the icing on that cake.

I have always had open conversations with Shahid. He would discuss what he felt as a performer, and I would talk to him about his performances.

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world.