#versa

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. ↗

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#brings #conversation #dearly #essentials #how

I want to keep a human mouth on my coffee table. It’ll be a great conversation starter. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#conversation #funny #human #mouth #weird

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#conversation #correspondence #did #ever #fbi

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#cure #endure #hope #ills #men

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist. ↗

— James Daly

#artists #conversations #down #got #greatest

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. ↗

— William Glasser

#intellectual #lack #relationship #school #students

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ↗

— George Eliot

#declared #election #foxes #interest #lives

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. ↗

— Anatole France

#frightens #his #madman #most #sane

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. ↗