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Quotes About Conversing

That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD's Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.
~ Brother Lawrence
Many can argue - not many converse.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
I have discovered that writing is rather like talking: it is very difficult to start, but once you have actually got going it can also be very difficult to stop. The reason I don't want to stop is that I am scared of being on my own. At least when I'm writing this journal it's like conversing with someone.
~ Jean Ure
God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.
~ John Milton
You'll have to excuse Zo's manners. She was raised by a group of indigenous swamp wallabies and is at times uncomfortable conversing with civilized humans." "Look, it's like this-" Zo started to say, but then she interrupted herself. "Swamp wallabies?
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
My favorite memory of Kevin Garnett is not a memory - it's more of the experience I had with him for a year, just enjoying that moment of being his teammate, conversing with him every single day, learning from him every single day.
~ Karl-Anthony Towns
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
~ Robert Frost
Over six feet tall, with a flowing handlebar mustache, he dressed in well-tailored suits and black bow ties and was a man of presence and intelligence. Rarely did he debate in public; the cloakroom, the back corridor, was where his work was done. A reporter with the New York Tribune noted the "side whiskers close cut" and the "brilliant dark eyes which he fastens closely upon the person with whom he is conversing.
~ Roger Lowenstein
In fact, classification, the separating of things into classes or kinds, underlies our speech, our capacity to speak. According to Socrates, "conversing" ( to dialegesthai ) was given its name from the practice of those who come together to deliberate in common by separating ( to dialegein ) matters according to their kinds.
~ Leo Strauss
You might think of praying without ceasing as communicating with God on one line while also taking calls on another. Even while you are talking on the other line, you never lose your awareness of the need to return your attention to the Lord. So praying without ceasing means you never really stop conversing with God; you simply have frequent interruptions.
~ Donald S. Whitney
I watch them continue to argue, although perhaps it is not arguing. They are remembering together, dreaming together.
~ Amy Tan
This is the prime way of honoring God. We do not so glorify God by elevated admirations, or eloquent expressions, or pompous services for Him as when we aspire to a conversing with Him with unstained spirits, and live to Him in living like Him (S. Charnock).
~ Arthur W. Pink
With thee conversing I forget all time.
~ John Milton
So the Marquise is a prisoner somewhere?" I asked, enjoying the idea. He grimaced. "No. She took poison. A constitutional inability to suffer reverses, apparently. We didn't find out until too late. Fialma," he added drily, "tried to give her share to me." "That must have been a charming scene." "It took place at approximately the same time you were conversing with your forty wagoneers." He smiled a little.
~ Sherwood Smith
Conversation Starters
~ Matt Morris
It was impossible to get a conversation going. Everyone was talking too much.
~ berra yogi ii
On the level of simple sensation and mood, making love surely resembles an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.
~ Susan Sontag
I cook and I chat. That's what I do. I love to write recipes, but basically, if you had to put it in a nutshell, I cook and I chat.
~ Rachael Ray
That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD's Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.
~ Brother Lawrence
We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception of God and from that derive great joy in being his. We should put life in our faith. We should give ourselves utterly to God in pure abandonment, in temporal and spiritual matters alike, and find contentment in the doing of His will,whether he takes us through sufferings or consolations.
~ Brother Lawrence
That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD'S Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries. That we should feed
~ Brother Lawrence
That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD'S Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.
~ Brother Lawrence
conceiving the reader as conversing with the author, as talking back. After he has said, "I understand but I disagree," he can make the following remarks to the author: (1) "You are uninformed"; (2) "You are misinformed"; (3) "You are illogical—your reasoning is not cogent"; (4) "Your analysis is incomplete.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
The emotions of women were of no interest to him, and if they displayed them in his presence he was bored and vexed, as one is annoyed by an insistent and not exceedingly intelligent child, or a pampered pet. He found no intellectual satisfaction in conversing with women
~ Taylor Caldwell