Quotes About Conversation

Do you want to resolve a conflict successfully? Don't wait, start a conversation.

Creativity is a basic biological drive to engage in meaningful conversations with ourselves & the world around us.

Prayer is communication. You talk, God listens. You listen when God talks.

Wit is the salt of conversation not the food and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

and debris, and her husband and I settled back, sucking on toothpicks like a pair of feudal lords. This may sound sexist and insensitive and politically incorrect—and it is—but I had long since

find this amusing. 'Didn't you say you lived in Richmond?' 'Yeah. So what?

It is easier to bring up death when it's not in the same area code as you are, and it wasn't back then. It is probably worth noting that nobody has mentioned it to me in the last couple of years.

the longer we wait to start a conversation around doing school "differently," instead of simply "better," the more we're putting our kids at risk.

Before we can have a coherent conversation around what happens to schools, we need to get educated. We need to learn about modern, connected learning. And we've got to try to get others to do that work with us.

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.

We're all in the end-of-your-life book-club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose - electronic (even though that wasn't for her) or printed, or audio - is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in human conversation.

Books speak to us thoughtfully, one at a time. They demand our attention. And they demand that we briefly put aside our own beliefs and prejudices and listen to someone else's. There's one questions I think we should ask one another a lot more often, and that's "what are you reading?

I used to say that the greatest gift you could ever give anyone is a book. But I don't say that anymore because I no longer think it's true. I now say that a book is the second greatest gift. I've come to believe that the greatest gift you can give people is to take the time to talk with them about a book you've shared. A book is a great gift; the gift of your interest and attention is even greater.

reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose -- electronic or printed or audio -- is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in the human conversation.

That's one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we don't want to talk about ourselves.

Mom agreed but pointed out that she'd been doing the same with others too—talking about books with my sister and brother and some of her friends. "I guess we're all in it together," she said. And I couldn't help but smile at the other meaning of the phrase. We're all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

We've reached a point in American history when death has become almost the last obscenity. Have you noticed how many of us refuse to say 'he or she died'? We're far more likely to say 'she passed away,' as though death were a sterile process of modest preparation, followed by shrink-wrapping, then rapid transit—where? Well, elsewhere. In short, it's the single thing we're loath to discuss in public.

And more than anything, we are a pretty awkward society when it comes to talking about dying. It's supposed to happen offstage, in hospitals, and no one wants to dwell on it too much.

That's one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we don't want to talk about ourselves." Mom

We're all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

I used to say that the greatest gift you could ever give anyone is a book. But I don't say that anymore because I no longer think it's true. I now say that a book is the second greatest gift. I've come to believe that the greatest gift you can give people is to take the time to talk with them about a book you've shared.