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Quotes About Discussion

THEY SPENT FORTY-FIVE MINUTES plowing through the minutiae of the campaign.
~ John Sandford
He called St. Vincent back and asked if he
~ John Sandford
That's the end of it?" "Not quite. I've invited Grant to a little confab in my office tomorrow, with Porter Smalls. Mitford will be there, and her campaign manager, and I'd like you to sit in. And I'll get Rose Marie to come along." "Why is that?" "Because I want everybody clear on what happened here, and why everybody did what they did—including you and me," the governor said.
~ John Sandford
I want you to know there was some discussion about whether to make the pizza. Because it's a Hawaiian pizza? Yeah. We have a new employee who makes the pizzas. He considers pineapple on a pizza against the laws of God and Nature. She held out the pizza.
~ John Scalzi
John Scalzi "I want you to know there was some discussion about whether to make the pizza. Because it's a Hawaiian pizza? Yeah. We have a new employee who makes the pizzas. He considers pineapple on a pizza against the laws of God and Nature. She held out the pizza.
~ John Scalzi
Actually, the captain and I were just talking about the plight of the less advantaged," Kiva said. "You?" Ghreni said, disbelieving. "One, fuck you, and two, yes.
~ John Scalzi
Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.
~ John Steinbeck
Consequently, any discussion (including this one) can only be a partial description of possibilities, but a review of several major interpretive frameworks can provide a sense of options. The
~ Unknown
My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.
~ Shirley Chisholm
really can't understand how Robert ever came to fall in love with her," the Duchesse went on. "Oh, I know one must never discuss that sort of thing!" she added, with the charming philosophical pout of a sentimentalist who had no illusions left. "I know that anybody can fall in love with anybody else.
~ Marcel Proust
as of discussing the nature of love with her novelists and philosophers. "Love?" she had once replied to a pushing lady who had asked her: "What are your views on love?"—"Love? I make it, constantly, but I never talk about it.
~ Marcel Proust
Leaders who are reluctant to engage with Scripture, or who insist that their way is the only scriptural way without discussion, or who demand obedience without reference to Scripture, are almost certainly outside the limits of legitimate authority.
~ Unknown
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.
~ Margaret Thatcher
New ideas are created when they can be discussed freely, but if there is a CORRECT view then you cease to have new ideas
~ Margaret Thatcher
We might recall, however, that one of the characteristics of a safely operating taboo is that it remains invisible, beneath discussion, taken for granted.
~ Unknown
When not used as an instrument, the intellect becomes autonomous and dynamic and one can be sure that a man with such attitude is driven by his anima, otherwise he would discuss in a quiet, detached way.
~ Marie-Louise von Franz
Two women at a resort discussed dinner: "The food here is lousy," the first noted. "You're right! And such small portions!!" the second added
~ Groucho Marx
Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.
~ Marcel Boulestin
But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
~ Eddie Huang
Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.
~ Herbert Hoover
We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.
~ Ron Paul
In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.
~ C. E. M. Joad
Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.
~ Richard von Weizsaecker