Top 100 We Talk Quotes
#1. And now, a heap of roses
beside the sea, white rugosa
beside the foaming hem of shore:
brave,
waxen candles ...
And we talk
as if death were a line to be crossed.
Look at them, the white roses.
Tell me where they end.
Mark Doty
#2. As we talk with candour, we open the doors to new possibilities and new areas of cooperation in advance in democracy, in combating terrorism, in energy and environment, science and technology and international peacekeeping.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
#3. There's no need for us to talk. That's how it's like with us. We talk without speaking.
Yvonne Prinz
#4. We talk a lot about our right to freedom of expression, but we need to talk more about our responsibility to freedom of expression. We all want to be heard, but let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention
Monica Lewinsky
#5. It is more difficult to maintain friendship with people that you work with five minutes ago, than from many years ago. For some reason we've just remained friends, we talk to each other all the time. For a while, for years, we spent New Year together.
Ray Liotta
#6. It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.
Fred Ward
#7. Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power.
Erwin McManus
#8. I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.
Dolly Parton
#9. But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.
Laura Bush
#10. The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.
Peggy O'Mara
#11. Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves ... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
Harold Bloom
#12. You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things.
William Shawcross
#13. [T]he categories of intentionality are nothing more nor less than the metalinguistic categories in terms of which we talk epistemically about overt speech as they appear in the framework of thoughts construed on the model of over speech.
Wilfrid Sellars
#14. When Americans talks about Europeans, they are thinking Britain and the rest of Europe. When we [ Britains] talk about Europeans, we talk about everywhere else.
Steve Coogan
#15. The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.
Mike Rounds
#16. The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
Wayne Dyer
#17. Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet.
Neil Gaiman
#18. If you truly feel that self esteem and motivation have to happen first before you can make changes in your life, then we'll probably be sharing walkers at a retirement home as we talk over what might have been.
Shannon L. Alder
#19. These days when we speak of politics at all it is with indifference, anger, or "Please, could we talk about something that doesn't make us nauseous?" But there was a time when we could discuss government with hope, pride, and trust in our leaders, and that was when Corazon Aquino was president.
Jessica Zafra
#20. I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
Loretta Lynn
#21. No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.
Amitabh Bachchan
#22. Our reputations do not come from how we talk about ourselves. Our reputations come from how others talk about us.
Simon Sinek
#23. But do you know what: I am convinced that we underground folk ought to be kept on a curb. Though we may sit forty years underground without speaking, when we do come out into the light of day and break out we talk and talk and talk....
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#24. The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.
John Templeton
#25. If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?
Brad Thor
#26. We talk about what's important to Hispanics: education, family, creating an environment in which you can achieve what you want to achieve because there aren't going to be obstacles in your way.
Lionel Sosa
#27. We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.
Dave Obey
#28. Games are getting more interesting. I mean, when we talk about books, they can be anything from a summer blockbuster to 'War and Peace' - well, games are the same. I think the creative side is catching up with the technology.
Karen Traviss
#29. When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of the last 50 years.
Heinz-Otto Peitgen
#30. When we talk with our children about sexual abuse, we are not only taking a proactive step toward protecting them, we are building our relationship with them
grounded in honesty and trust. It's a win-win situation.
Carolyn Byers Ruch
#31. We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?
Lynn Swann
#32. It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
Raymond Carver
#33. Brooke, why don't we talk about you instead? You seem much more interesting." I started feeling frustrated. "I'm sure that's not true. Why are you so mysterious?
S. Walden
#34. What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell me you're wondering if people jump to their feet and shout stuff like 'It'll rain tomorrow if a polar bear eats the stars tonight!
Haruki Murakami
#35. This is the debate we have every time we talk about the minimum wage, that if we raise it even 50 cents, that it means employers are just going to shut down. It's not true.
Stephanie Cutter
#36. We talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us?
Herman Melville
#37. As we talk about devices, you should never forget that behind every one there is a person - a customer. Its not the Internet of Things, but the Internet of People - of customers. We are moving to one-to-one relationships.
Marc Benioff
#38. Very often we talk about India and China, but not really Malaysia and Indonesia. The potential in the shift to the East is going to be great and very important for this country.
Tariq Ramadan
#39. We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals ... The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.
C.S. Lewis
#40. When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on.
Antonio Damasio
#41. If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us.
Isidore Of Seville
#42. Chiron insisted that we talk about the Labyrinth in the morning which is like 'Hey, your life's in mortal danger. Sleep tight!
Rick Riordan
#43. We get along, we talk music.Lenny Kravitz took me to Harlem to see this little jazz show in the back of a church. It was just shitty fluorescent lights and a small stage piano, but this band tore it up.
Penn Dayton Badgley
#45. Look at the newborn baby. It struggles to breathe after living in the womb. And yet, growth comes as a result of struggle. Even when we talk about jihad. We need to attach consciousness to struggle. This struggle has to be both individual and collective.
H. Rap Brown
#46. Wait! I'm not ready.
Tough shit, Monroe. You had a year to get ready.
Can we talk about this?
I'm done talking. It's time to fuck.
B.B. Reid
#47. We talk about globalization today as if it's some great big new thing, that we've all just discovered. But there's really nothing new about it.
Jacqueline Winspear
#48. From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace ... War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated-ever.
Elie Wiesel
#49. In the writers' room, when we talk about each episode, we first talk about the character journey of the episode.
Marc Guggenheim
#50. The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue
Carlos Castaneda
#51. I love afternoons like that, like when we talk about things like metempsychosis, when we learn so much, and explore so much, and ideas grow and take flight, like the idea about the universe and the egg. I love being home-schooled, when we don't have to stick to subjects and timetables and rules.
David Almond
#52. Everything we talk about is about beating the Packers, the Bears and the Vikings. Obviously there are other teams in the league, but if you can dominate and be on top of your division you are always in the playoff hunt. It's time for us to win that thing.
Steve Mariucci
#53. Dhoni Is My Hero. We talk a lot about Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, But this boy has as much talent as anyone in the game
Kapil Dev
#54. Highlight just hasn't proven to be very addictive to either me or my friends. We talk about it often. I keep running it.
Robert Scoble
#55. We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.
Joan D. Chittister
#56. Everything I've experienced, things that my friends have experienced and we talk about, things that are on the news - all aspects of life are in my message.
Damian Marley
#57. We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.
G.K. Chesterton
#58. I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important.
Eric McCormack
#59. When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of that sort, that a gene for anything may not have been a gene for that thing under different environmental conditions.
Richard Dawkins
#60. We can't make her see anything, Pyotr Alexandritch! We are simply done. We talk of one thing and she talks of something else.
Anton Chekhov
#61. But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.
Walker Percy
#62. I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
Naomi Scott
#63. Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
John Green
#64. I work with the president almost on a daily basis. I was with him until 6:30 last night. I'll be with him Thursday morning. We talk every day.
Dan Quayle
#65. All my friends are rock critics, so we talk about rock criticism a lot. Because of that, in order to be part of the conversation, you have to have an awareness of what the discussion is.
Chuck Klosterman
#66. When we talk, we express our preconceived thoughts, when we listen, we learn and give birth to new thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#67. We talk about Hollywood being pro-labor, yet about 70% of our industry has been farmed out to Canada, meaning we are losing jobs like crazy. Where's organized labor asking how we can allow such a thing to happen?
Danny Aiello
#68. Modern Western culture has become a mixture of paganism and Christianity. We are a blend of both. We talk of God, but we often act as though we are atheists.
Billy Graham
#69. I'm a friend of Colin Powell. We talk quite often.
Ariel Sharon
#70. Double-mindedness means the faculty of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind and accepting both of them. We talk out of both corners of our mouths at once.
Billy Graham
#71. I think it's very interesting how an American network chooses to tell this story. We don't name one country the good guy and the other country the bad guy. We talk about this co-responsibility that we share, in everything.
Demian Bichir
#72. The more we talk about our troubles and our fears, the more life we breathe into them. HS/el
Evinda Lepins
#73. I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.
Max Planck
#74. We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.
Robert D. Kaplan
#75. We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express ...
Julia Cameron
#76. In Beijing, we talk about air purifiers the way that teenage boys talk about cars.
Evan Osnos
#77. We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life.
Sheryl Crow
#78. In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the history books.
Colum McCann
#79. I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons.
James Inhofe
#80. And getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it
Charles Bukowski
#81. the phrase "stay-at-home mom" is patronizing and faintly derogatory, like "stick-in-the-mud mom" or "sit-in-the-corner mom." Do we talk about a "chained-to-the-desk mom" or a "stuck-in-traffic mom" or a "languishing-in-meetings mom"?
Anthony M. Esolen
#82. When we talk about climate, we need to do everything we can to set the stage before the actors come on. And they may only have one chance at success. We should keep thinking: How do we maximize that chance of success?
David Titley
#83. The more we talk of Jesus, the more of His matchless charms we shall behold.
Ellen G. White
#84. I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute. We talk about things like, maybe my character can't afford these Christian Louboutins.
Rachel McAdams
#85. We don't really communicate [ ... ]. We talk all right, talk in that strange language we've evolved for the purposes of avoiding communication. That non-language we've created. Perhaps it's a sign that civilisation is regressing. Something is anyway.
Irvine Welsh
#86. There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be.
Allan Houston
#87. You learn in America to speak two ways. You learn in public discourse not to be very specific about your religious life. Or, if we talk about it, we'll find a secular way of doing it that will not be offensive to people of non-belief. So, that you go through life with these alternate voices.
Richard Rodriguez
#88. Business needs to move to adopt much more scalable pull platforms. When we talk about pull platforms, often people focus on one level of pull, which is what we call access. It's simply, if I have a need, I can make a request, get the resource or the information I need when needed.
John Hagel III
#89. We talk a lot here about grit and self-control. The kids know what those words mean
Malcolm Gladwell
#90. We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
Walid Jumblatt
#91. We talk of humans behaving indistinguishably from animals; this view is an insult to animals, as they would not treat other creatures of their own kind the way we at times behave towards each other.
George Korankye
#92. From the time we open our eyes, we live in a Steadicam form, and the only editing is when we talk about our lives or remember things.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#93. Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great. We are talking of only a painting.
Joseph Heller
#94. Verity, you have a choice," he said gently. "We eat, we talk, we pass the evening with an attempt at civility. Or we fuck. It's up to you.
Anna Campbell
#95. We talk of high philosophies and our ancient greatness but act in narrow grooves and show intolerance to our neighbour. These are basic questions for us to keep in mind, for our future depends on the answer that we give to them.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#96. It's odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there's barley any separation between who we are and who they are.
Penelope Douglas
#97. We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that's exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it's awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.
David Icke
#98. We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into this concept. We soon discover that John Calvin did not invent it.
R.C. Sproul
#99. But when we talk about God, we're talking about the very straightforward affirmation that everything has a singular, common source and is infinitely, endlessly, deeply connected.
Rob Bell
#100. Our faith is really proven in the way we talk to ourselves. The loudest human voice you will listen to is your own. Choose your words wisely.
Christine Caine
