C Quotes
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“Conversation accelerates change when the people who are talking to each other are getting better—and I don’t mean human beings getting better at science and technology; I mean human beings getting better at being human. The gains in rights for women, for people of color, for the LGBTQ community, and for other groups that have historically faced discrimination are signs of human progress. And the starting point for that human improvement is empathy. Everything flows from that. Empathy allows for listening and listening leads to understanding. That’s how we gain a common base of knowledge. When people can’t agree, it’s often because there is no empathy, no sense of shared experience. If you feel what others feel, you’re more likely to see what they see. Then you can understand one another. Then you can move to the honest and respectful exchange of ideas that is the mark of a successful partnership. That’s the source of partnership.”
Source: The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
“Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.”
“Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.”
“Conversation between a princess and an outlaw:
"If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bait--dragon bait--what do you stand for?"
"Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night."
"Franky, it seems to me that you've turned yourself into a stereotype."
"You may be right. I don't care. As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve."
"Well, you may get off on being a beautiful stereotype, regardless of the social consequences, but my conscience won't allow it."
"And I goddamn refuse to be dragon bait. I'm as capable of rescuing you as you are of rescuing me."
"I'm an outlaw, not a hero. I never intended to rescue you. We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.”
“Conversation between Marsha Carol Watson Gandy and her Father: Captain Samuel Marshall Watson: "Daddy, do you believe in flying saucers?" Her father replied: "I sure do.”
“Conversation can be a learning experience for everyone. I never hesitate to reach out when I'm in over my head, and I'll never hesitate to return the favor.”
“Conversation creates a new kind of network within organizations. Current networks are used for competitive advantage, but conversation is focused on encouraging people to realize their potential.”
“Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.”
Source: Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk
“Conversation doesn’t have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it’s enough that it helps people get used to one another”
Source: Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.”
“Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another with sympathy and enjoyment, a field for the finest amenities of civilization, for the keenest and most intelligent display of social activity. It is also our solace, our inspiration, and our most rational pleasure. It is a duty we owe to one another; it is our common debt to humanity.”
“Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.”
Source: The Cornish Trilogy
“Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?”
“Conversation, indeed!" said the Rocket. "You have talked the whole time yourself. That is not conversation."
"Somebody must listen," answered the Frog, "and I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.”
“Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.”
“Conversation is a catalyst for innovation”
“Conversation is a game of circles.”
“Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.”
“Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.”
“Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade drops at once: and this is the reasonwhy travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,--owing to their [the natives'] suspicionthat there is nothing to be extracted from the conversationworth the trouble of their bad language.”
“Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.”
Source: Table-talk
“Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.”
Source: The Conduct of Life
“Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.”
Source: The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author
“Conversation is good - you might not agree with everyone, but at least it gives you a chance to contemplate someone else's ideas.”
“Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.”
Source: The Intellectual Life: With a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, etched by Leopold Flameng
“Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.”
“conversation is like a dear little baby that is brought in to be handed round. You must rock it, nurse it, keep it on the move if you want it to keep smiling.”
Source: The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield
“Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position for the one who must hit it - while in conversation you must try to put it where it will be easy to hit.”
“Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.”
Source: Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats
“conversation is now pretty well a lost art.”
Source: The reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill
“Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.”
“Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey and winnowed their wisdom for years.”
Source: How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game
“Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.”
“Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.”
“Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.”
“Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.”
Source: Desultory Thoughts and Reflections
“CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change.”
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“Conversation is the wall we build between ourselves and other people, too often with tired words like used and broken bottles which, catching the sunlight as they lie embedded in the wall, are mistaken for jewels.”
Source: Faces in the water
“Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.”
“Conversation makes one what he is.”
Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir
“Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.”
Source: Sketches of art, literature, and character [orig. publ. as Visits and sketches at home and abroad].
“Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion”
“Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.”
Source: The Guardian
“Conversation of the Day -
He: How do you describe yourself in two words?
Me: You don't.”
“Conversation often becomes mere verbal performance and oral horseplay rather than fair-minded communication. (“Juicy rumours “)”
“Conversation on the page should reflect what the story is about. It doesn't have to be "realistic" in the sense that it's something you heard and plugged into a story.”
“Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds them up to a light that discovers those latent flaws which would probably have lain concealed in the gloom of unagitated abstraction.”
Source: Fitzosborne's Letters on several subjects ... Eleventh edition, with the Dialogue on Oratory [translated from Tacitus]: to which is prefixed a life of the author
“Conversation shortens distance.”