conversation

It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance that knows what you know. I see so many of these new folks nowadays, that seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

Genuine people never seems to be in rush. In their conversation they make the other person feel special.

Three-Step Method for Making Stronger Connections: Take the Triangle Talk approach to connecting and reaching agreement with others: You, Me, Us. First refer to their interest, then yours - and then note how your interests coincide. This approach enables diverse people to gain traction sooner toward a common goal.

He was through with this conversation. As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are we?" and "Do our lives have meaning?" The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both of them.

He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have acquired an entirely different kind of culture, literary or artistic, for which their professional specialisation has no use but by which their conversation profits.

Words were few and failing between them as though the silence that sat with them had laid its old lips on theirs and sucked them dry of speech. For where could one begin? With the weather? But here there was no weather. These few sad rooms were the old man's world. His horizons were all walls.

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.

Conversation is the Best Content.

She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly.

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.

The difference between educated people and uneducated people is that educated people have been opened up to the notion that you can disagree without fighting; whereas uneducated people, in conversation, seek to always agree--everybody agrees and agrees and that's considered basic social libation.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change.

I cherish genuine conversation, where people actually care what someone else has to say.

It__ no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,_ she muttered.

It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment.