Dialogue Quotes - Page 19

Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference.

Frederick Salomon Perls

Appreciation, Fighting, Two

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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Mr. Justice Brandeis, Great American". Book by Irving Dilliard, 1941.

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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Andre Gide

Amplify, Argument, Quarrels

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Mark Twain

Communication, Resolution, Win Win

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I am in favor of increased communication and cooperation between countries, but it is more important that each country becomes responsible for its own actions, its own communities, its own economies, before starting to integrate in large regional or global supranational organizations.

David Korten

Country, Communication, Responsibility

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Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue

Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion, Ideas, Design

"Karl Lagerfeld to Launch Affordable Collection for Internet Customers", www.foxnews.com. October 25, 2011.

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If you were only to listen, it becomes meditation. Without meditation you cannot hear. What is the meaning of meditation? Meditation exists only where mind is not; where the internal dialogue is gone.

Rajneesh

Meditation, Mind, Gone

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If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.

Wendell Berry

Winning, Assumption, Resolution

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Help each other to live and to grow in the Christian faith so as to be valiant witnesses of the Lord. Be united, but not closed. Be humble, but not fearful. Be simple, but not naive. Be thoughtful, but not complicated. Enter into dialogue with others, but be yourselves.

Pope Benedict XVI

Christian, Humble, Thoughtful

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Screw the dialogue, let's wreck some cars.

Hal Needham

Bad Ass, Car, Wrecks

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It's a one-to-one dialogue. You open your mouth and you're talking to 6 million people.

Derek Jameson

Funny, Talking, People

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The characters are so flat and the dialogue so dull you expect it to be one of those movies whose existence is justified by a big final twist. But it's three days after the screening, and still no twist. Maybe it's coming in the mail?

Kyle Smith

Sarcastic, Character, Twists

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If you must have a rule to follow, I would suggest cultivating a dialogue with your inner voice... If you listen to the clues your own images offer, the resulting work will be fresh, and authentic. Fall in love with your world.

Jane Fulton Alt

Falling In Love, Freedom, Love You

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When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue.

Jeet Aulakh

Mysterious Things, Serendipity, Void

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[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the "school" to which the geologist belongs and on the objectivity of his investigations. Hans Cloos called this way of interrogation "the dialogue with the earth," "das Gesprach mit der Erde."

Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

School, Science, Objectivity

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I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense.

Lynda Benglis

Art, Believe, Doe

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Dialogue is the only way to end war and terror. We need practical solidarity with those who are weaker and diplomacy from below.

Luisa Morgantini

War, Needs, Way

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Ever since I became NATO Secretary General, I have emphasised the need for enhanced political dialogue among the Allies. And I am glad that, over the last few years, we've had more regular, and increasingly constructive, political discussions in NATO on a wider range of issues.

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

Communication, Years, Issues

Speech at NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Madeira, www.nato.int. May 25, 2007.

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Life for the Christian is a dialogue with God.

J. H. Oldham

Christian, Spiritual

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I think that the best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue. For me the best way to fight against terrorism and extremism... just a simple thing: educate the next generation.

Malala Yousafzai

War, Fighting, Simple

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In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

Diane Johnson

Character, Thinking, Crafts

"In the Writing #4: Why Justified ‘s Dialogue is Best-in-Television" by Jesse Damiani, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.

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Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Years, Trying

Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

Elizabeth Bowen

Character, Fiction, Crafts

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James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to said, replied, asked, and answered and only when absolutely necessary.

Anne McCaffrey

Writing, Verbs, Limits

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Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.

Jack Woodford

Writing, Flow, Action

Jack Woodford (2012). “Trial and Error”, p.177, askmar publishing

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