870 Quotes About Conversation

The most meaningful conversations are the ones you don’t expect to have.

Actual conversation is still okay... to a writer who types all day, texting is like never leaving work.

On Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday:"These two simply appreciate one another more than either of them appreciates anyone else, and they would rather be appreciated by one another more than by anyone else. They just are at home with one another, whether or not they can ever live together under the same roof -- that is, ever find a roof they can live together under.

Some people seem to see a conversation as a competition to see who can talk the longest and the most often.

Leadership is a conversation.

Protecting our kids from sexual abuse is not accomplished in a single conversation, but in ongoing conversations grounded in honesty and trust.

Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be their hero.

Atwork, you’ll have to be patient at the risky enterprise of talkingto other people; so little progress in this since the Pleistocene.

Sometimes I hesitate to use the term sexual abuse. It conjures up worst-case scenarios in our minds, and we think, "That will never happen to my kids." And we never begin the conversation regarding sexual abuse with our children. But one violation left in secret can cause significant pain.