#versa

When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#depends #going #hear #hendrix #i

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#his #liar #loses #never #only

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#abolish #absolute #been #condition #death

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#any #being #cannot #capable #character

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life. ↗

— Akhenaton

#give #guide #hear #heart #heed

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#debate #feminine #masculine

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#audience #interested #just #keeping #reversal

I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation. ↗

— Carol Gilligan

#conversation #feel #feeling #found #i

Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#because #congress #experience #initiated #know

My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs. ↗

— David Bruce

#conversations #derived #entirely #health #knowledge