Quotes about Conversation

We need a global conversation because the Bible itself is global. God's Word has never been the exclusive property of the elite. God's Word is for the world. If anything, the Bible gives priority to the weak, the oppressed, and the poor and is tougher on privileged people who hold the reins of wealth and power but refuse to wield their advantages for the good of others.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.

Would you like a . . . a cup of cider?" She thought she heard him laugh. "A cup of cider? In the middle of the night?" She smiled, knowing he couldn't see her, but it felt good after a day spent worrying. "It's silly. I'm sorry. Never mind." "No! I'd like a cup of a cider. Or a cup of . . . anything . . . with you, ma'am.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

It does not take long to tell where a man's treasure is. In fifteen minutes' conversation with most men, you can tell whether their treasures are on the earth or in Heaven.