Quotes About Discussion

I believe we will have better government when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their differing areas of concern for the welfare of their families and their world. Too often the great decisions are.

The discussion in Washington has changed dramatically. I mean, it's no longer a question of should we address entitlements - it's no longer a question of do we need to reduce spending in the future.

them fell silent. Dennison noticed his friend also looked worried and asked what was wrong. As they talked further, each boy admitted being anxious about a private problem. After further discussion, Dennison

When we address a group without being clear what we are wanting back, unproductive discussions will often follow. However, if even one member of a group is conscious of the importance of clearly requesting the response that is desired, he or she can extend this consciousness to the group.

We could kill them,' Stone suggested, not helpfully. It would have been a tense moment, except Heart sighed impatiently and said, 'Line-grandfather, not in front of company.' Delin lifted a hand. 'I know Stone is merely stimulating discussion.' Pearl eyed Stone and lifted her spines. 'Perhaps Stone could stop doing that.

Hitler's entourage quickly learned what he had in mind. On September 9 Colonel Eduard Wagner discussed the future of Poland with Hitler's Army Chief of Staff, General Halder. 'It is the Führer's and Goering's intention', Wagner wrote in his diary, 'to destroy and exterminate the Polish nation. More than that cannot even be hinted at in writing.

If you do not agree with the prevalent point of view, be ready to explain why.

a process by which we co-ordinate our ideas, define the meaning of the words we use, grasp the difference between essential and unessential factors, and fix and expose the fundamental data on which everyone is agreed. In this way we prepare the apparatus of practical discussion…. Without such an apparatus no two men can even think on the same line; much less can they ever hope to detach the real point of difference that divides them and isolate it for quiet solution.

In The Prince he says that "a just war is a necessary war," thus cutting through the Gordian knot formed by endless Medieval discussions of Just War from Saint Augustine to Saint Thomas Aquinas.

It is possible that our negotiators, who have earnestly tried to negotiate a realistic and effective test ban, have exhausted every avenue of agreement, but since I have neither taken part in the negotiations nor had personal reports from the negotiators, who are not representatives chosen by me, I lack personal assurance of the futility of further discussions which alone would persuade me to urge the abandonment of so high an objective.

A los hombres siempre les ha gustado mucho reunirse y discutir, y hacer ver que toman decisiones consensuadas que van a convertir el planeta en un lugar mejor. Luego viene la realidad, y les derrota.

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

We need to settle a few things before tomorrow." "We sure do." Rylan suspected they wanted to talk about different things.

Wren's hands slapped the table. "Imara's knives!" "Yes!" Synové answered, and the two began excitedly chattering about their qualities, forgetting about the rest of us.

You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer." "I sometimes think I should have been a good one." "Why?" "Because I am patient.

I'll see if the director is available.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

This willingness to entertain more than one idea as worthy and the respect shown for minority opinions are attitudes that draw me to Jewish thought. Differences in opinion are appreciated and encouraged. Sometimes, they even provide a source of amusement. In modern times, we like to quip, "Two Jews, three opinions.

Excuse me? Does anyoone know where I can find a Mr. and Mrs. Froste? They told me to meet them here this afternoon. Apparently they want to discuss a job. Something that could 'really make history'. Their words. - Arin

poor white trash became the subject of extensive public debates in the antebellum period.

The point is simply to keep the argument going, to ensure that it never reaches a conclusion (which leads to confusion, fatigue and collusion)

Seldom have I seen children dissatisfied with the product they took from a philosophical discussion, even if it is only some modest philosophical distinction, for they recognize how before that acquisition they had even less. Children, unlike adults, do not look insistently for answers or conclusions. They look rather for the kind of transformation that philosophy provides – not giving a new answer to an old question, but transforming all the questions.

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.