Quotes About Discussion

oddly emphatic, as if she'd been waiting all day for a chance to discuss the weather.

They would discuss the slapping but not the pregnancy and certainly not the girl with sapphires hidden in her shoes.

Some girls were there too, arguing, it seemed, with one of them.

Discussion is to Christian philosophy what lab work is to the practice of biology.

The kind of intelligent book club discussion as now happens on the book sharing site Goodreads might follow the book itself and become more deeply embedded into the book via hyperlinks. So when a person cites a particular passage, a two-way link connects the comment to the passage and the passage to the comment. Even a minor good work could accumulate a wiki-like set of critical comments tightly bound to the actual text.

There is no proper way to discuss what God will do in the future unless we have our feet firmly planted in biblical teaching about what God has done in the past.

We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.

I want you to notice that right now, this instant, we are having a conversation. It's really not hard, now, is it? Think you we can carry this on for the rest of the day? (Callie)

While Jamnia did in fact become a center of Jewish scholarship after 70 CE, there was neither a synod that took place there, nor was the canonical nature of the writings of the Hebrew Bible as a whole discussed, but only the status of Qoheleth and Song of Songs.

Your new attitude I cannot discuss. But you must understand me. I did not expect you would take up arms for my people because they are my people, but because you were a man who loved justice.

And the thing is, that's all fantastic. I'm glad they work at the soup kitchen and care about their causes. It's the self-congratulatory sense they have, so gravely discussing their commitment and level of knowledge.

Books + friendship = book club

But there is a third ingredient in the foundation of our identity, and it is probably the essential one—it is the reason this delicate discussion is taking place in a book about time: memory.

This ideology failed because it was a profoundly inauthentic prescription: it is humanly impossible to genuinely respect beliefs no matter how irrational, immoral, or absurd. The resulting culture was emotionally frozen and often did not lead to fruitful discussion between worldviews in general, and between secularism and religion in particular.

He swam against the hard current of the class bores - there were three - who could relate every incident in the book to something in their own lives.

Frequently, someone is present who actually feels hostile to vegetarianism and regards it as a personal challenge. If this is the case, all sorts of outrageous issues are thrown out to see how the vegetarian will handle them. Vegetarian, enthusiastic reformer, sees the opportunity as one of her education; instead it is a teasing game of manipulation. At times, ludicrous questions are raised; they imply that the entire discussion is ludicrous.

My favorite nighttime radio station was running one of those old Somewhere in Time Art Bell shows. Art was discussing the possibility of a comet someday hitting our planet.

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.

What did you learn today?" "What mistake did you make that taught you something?" "What did you try hard at today?" You go around the table with each question, excitedly discussing your own and one another's effort, strategies, setbacks, and learning.

Stephen had just come from a class discussion in which several students believed that the right cup of herbal tea would save them from pain and sorrow. Well acquainted with pain and sorrow, Stephen did not contribute to the discussion. He merely crossed these idiots off his list of possible friends.

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

Ryan, began discussing attending Oregon State University. Tessa

The American constitutional order is meant to create a deliberative democracy, in which debate and discussion accompany accountability. This is not merely a system of majority rule, through which majorities get to do as they like simply because they are majorities. Reason-giving is central, and a deliberative democracy gives reasons.

Centuries later, John Rawls wrote of the same possibility: "The benefits from discussion lie in the fact that even representative legislators are limited in knowledge and the ability to reason. No one of them knows everything the others know, or can make all the same inferences that they can draw in concert. Discussion is a way of combining information and enlarging the range of arguments.