“ I say to you in all frankness, this is the only way forward for Northern Ireland,... I ask all of you, the people of Northern Ireland, that you give it a chance to work. ”
- Tony Blair- Copy
- 2.6K
“ An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say Gentlemen to the person with whom he is conversing. ”
- Alexis De Tocqueville- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue. ”
- Francis Ford Coppola- Copy
- 3K
“ I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people. ”
- J. Danforth Quayle- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound. ”
- Eduard Hanslick- Copy
- 523
“ When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 243
“ Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 2.5K
“ If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love. ”
- Harold Ross- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Recognizing what we have done in the past is a recognition of ourselves. By conducting a dialogue with our past, we are searching how to go forward. ”
- Kiyoko Takeda- Copy
- 615
“ I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world. ”
- Robert F. Kennedy- Copy
- 3.7K
“ An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 3.1K
“ It's not just a matter of meeting. It's a matter of engagement, of dialogue, of discussion, of discourse, of listening, and Sinn Fein is in a proactive listening mode. ”
- Gerry Adams- Copy
- 3.2K
“ This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil. ”
- George Whitefield- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you. ”
- Kin Hubbard- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts. ”
- Randall Wallace- Copy
- 698
“ As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. ”
- John Adams- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Essentially prayer is based on a relationship. We don't converse freely with someone we don't know. We bare our souls and disclose our hidden secrets only to someone we trust. ”
- Dean Register- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 161
“ It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
- 135
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