Conversation Quotes - Page 6

There's a lot of people that I disagree with that I think I could have interesting conversations with. What I don't want to get into is manufactured conflict. I would much rather talk to someone like Dr. Rhonda Patrick or Randall Carlson and be mesmerized by information. I guess in a way that's selfish, or maybe not objective of me. The older (and hopefully wiser) I get the less interested I am in conflict. I don't mind disagreeing with people in a civil way, but I definitely don't want to go out of my way to have an argument unless it's a really important subject.

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

[If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in five weeks of conversations. It's basic.

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

I've had some pretty stimulating conversations about where we are politically as a result of this movie [Snowden], but then there are a lot of questions just about that sensationalism of it.

There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.

The best of life is conversation.

Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

A true leader is not the one with the most followers, but one who creates the most leaders.

Talking is good. Conversations have to be forever.

No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.

To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.

In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.

His attention caught, her companion raised his eyes from the book which lay open beside him on the table and directed them upon her in a look of aloof enquiry. 'What's that? Did you say something to me, Venetia?' 'Yes, love,' responded his sister cheerfully, 'but it wasn't of the least consequence, and in any event I answered for you. You would be astonished, I daresay, if you knew what interesting conversations I enjoy with myself.

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

I'm attracted to guys who are really confident and make conversation.

Your ignorance cramps my conversation

politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.