Quotes About Discussion

I think the fact that people are even talking about the prospect of the Tories coming second is less about anything the Tories have done and more about the failures of Labour to set out, in any kind of coherent sense, what it's for anymore.

Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian.

In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform,' and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border.

Read books, watch documentaries, and discuss your ideas with others. No subject, no matter how specialized or esoteric, is off limits. You never know where your imagination will find pieces for its puzzles.

Comradeship always sets the cultural tone at the lowest possible level, accessible to everyone. It cannot tolerate discussion; in the chemical solution of comradeship, discussion immediately takes on the color of whining and grumbling. It becomes a mortal sin. Comradeship admits no thoughts, just mass feelings of the most primitive sort

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

I won't trouble you long," said Maricara. "No doubt you have all manner of pressing plans to consider. Spies to engage. Betrayals to enact. That sort of thing." "Only on Sundays," Kim replied. "It's Tuesday. We're discussing stealing sweetmeats from small children today.

The problem with our Blackberry society is that hardly anyone has time anymore to have an unhurried discussion about the long-term developments that will change our lives.

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum.

I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember.

At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological.

My dad and I get into it all the time. He loves to discuss politics much more than I do and we have pretty heated conversations.

Now is the time to scrub ideology out of the energy discussion, so we can make bi-partisan progress towards investing in a shared and better future.

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.

Floor time is valuable. Our leadership isn't going to bring something up that's going to take up floor time and not be successful.

We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.

I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers.

Come now. let us reason together.

They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

Are you afraid of a healthy argument? Or is it that you are so convinced that you are right that my opinion is of no interest to you?

to talk to Léon about it, I can see