#conversation

I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do. ↗

— Edward Norton

#another #average #conversation #day #head

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb? ↗

— Rudolf Nureyev

#dialogue #dumb #how #love #partner

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#conversational #criticism #essay #even #fiction

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation. ↗

— Anthony Sampson

#apt #britain #conversation #extension #history

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#amid #ask #conversation #divine #find

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. ↗

— O. Henry

#dough #existence #few #inject #into

Practicing the presence of God is not on trial. Countless saints have already proved it. Indeed, the spiritual giants of all ages have known it. The results of this effort begin to show clearly in a month. They grow rich after six months, and glorious after ten years. This is the secret of the great saints of all ages. 'Pray without ceasing,' said Paul, 'in everything make your wants known unto God.' 'As many as are led by the spirit of God, these are the sons of God. ↗

— Frank Charles Laubach

#practice-god-s-presence #age

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#conversation #hearing #listening #respect #art

Chivalry, stimulating conversations, everything is said to be a lost art nowadays. But nothing is a lost art, unless it’s a sunken statue—in a river of lava. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#chivalry #conversations #stimulation #art

A gossip is one who talks to you about others, a bore is one who talks to you about himself, and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself. ↗

— Lisa Kirk

#etiquette-and-attitude #manners #attitude