Quotes About Converses

#1. Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

Lord Chesterfield

#2. The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Many can argue - not many converse.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#4. The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

Honore De Balzac

#5. Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

Laurence Olivier

#6. How is your writing going, Michael?"
"Still from the top of the page on down, Mrs. Raglan.

Frederic Raphael

#7. In books I converse with men, in the Bible I converse with God.

William Romaine

#8. Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

Joseph Addison

#9. Laughing. A kind of laugh like every person you never had to know but did. You knew them. Knew them like the sound of someone moving furniture around the apartment above you. Simply through movement. Whole lives lived in movement and elsewhere.

Corey Zeller

#10. Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

William Temple

#11. Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#12. Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse

Amos Bronson Alcott

#13. Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.

Jeremy Taylor

#14. The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote)

Kurt Hahn

#15. One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization.

John Jay Chapman

#16. You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

Rachel Zoe

#17. Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers.

Karen Barad

#18. No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.

Thomas A Kempis

#19. Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.

Joseph Addison

#20. The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

Joseph Addison

#21. Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

Zaha Hadid

#22. I think it is not very difficult to discern by the duties and converses of Christians, what frames their spirits are under. Take a Christian in a good frame, and how serious, heavenly, and profitable, will his converses and duties be! what a lovely companion is he during the continuance of it!

John Flavel

#23. He that lacks assurance of God's love, converses too much with Satan

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#24. There is a moment in the history of every nation, when ... the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant ... with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.

Marsilio Ficino

#25. The friend of silence comes close to God. In secret he converses with him and receives his light.

John Climacus

#26. In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

Agatha Christie

#27. Only when people learn to converse will they begin to be equal.

Theodore Zeldin

#28. The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29. Holy Spirit. So how is it that, whenever a messenger brings

Anonymous

#30. A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.

Richard Steele

#31. Imagination is the organ through which the soul within us recognizes a soul without us; the spiritual eye by which the mind perceives and converses with the spiritualities of nature under her material forms; which tends to exalt even the senses into soul by discerning a soul in the objects of sense.

Henry Norman Hudson

#32. Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.

Alexander Pope