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I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.
— Oscar Wilde
We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn't wicked.
— RC Sproul Jr.
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
Crawl underneath the hood of any growing church that is actually growing from the unchurched, and you will find that the number one reason newcomers attend is that they were invited by a friend. Churches grow from the unchurched because their members and attendees talk about it to their unchurched friends. It comes up in their conversations like the mention of a good movie, a favorite restaurant or a treasured vacation spot. There is a culture of invitation.
— Thom Rainer
But why do we talk and gossip so continually, seeing that we so rarely resume our silence without some hurt done to our conscience?
— Thomas a Kempis
We like talking so much because we hope by our conversations to gain some mutual comfort, and because we seek to refresh our wearied spirits by variety of thoughts. And we very willingly talk and think of those things which we love or desire, or else of those which we most dislike.
— Thomas a Kempis
I appreciate my my sleep In sleep my conversation is witty My home is dusted My office work is up to date The dog is even well behaved And food is on the table on time But then when I'm asleep I don't have you to clutter and confuse My hungry heart
— Nikki Giovanni
Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking.
— Nikki Giovanni
T?cerea face parte din conversa?ie.
— Cicero
When I have my interview with God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics that matter in measuring my life.
— Clayton M. Christensen
A good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
— Virginia Woolf
The human frame being what it is, heart, body, and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well
— Virginia Woolf