497 Quotes About Dialogue

I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.

[M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly overt, partly internal, with others.

I am not a neurotic!""You're trembling with nerves and sensibility—""Of course I am, I'm an artist!

Do you think she'll change?""Hope nothing.""Is there a cure?""Only art. Or more love.""I should die of more love.

Where there is a readiness for dialogue, there is a chance for peace.

I see you want us all to go. I don't know what you want to do.""I want to be alone," said Isabel.

I feel I'm at the end of something — everything is going to be different — and terrible.""That doesn't sound like you, you ride every wave.""There is one that will drown me.

So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?

When people challenge your ideas, they help you (whether they know it or not).