Conversationally Proficient Quotes

#1. In 2012, an estimated 14,827 persons were murdered in the United States.
-- Federal Bureau of Investigation

Gennaro F. Vito

#2. Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?

Khaled Hosseini

#3. What people do in the name of religion is not necessarily religious. It often has baser reasons behind it.

Matthew Reilly

#4. Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#5. Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

Sue Townsend

#6. Nobody's going to tell me that my dog doesn't love me. That's crazy talk.

Carrie Underwood

#7. Exhausted after a full day of treating patients, William Carlos Williams angrily answered the phone. "Doctor," said a woman's voice, "my child has swallowed a mouse." "Then get him to swallow a cat," he replied, and slammed down the receiver.

Ross Wetzsteon

#8. Too often we want to take stands to elevate us rather than elevate a cause.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#9. Peace is first of all the art of being.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#10. After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

Daniel Kahneman

#11. I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.

Richard Dawkins

#12. Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.

Kate Winslet

#13. It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination.

Judy Blume