Browsing Topic Best Talking Quotes

I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for the teen to have sex. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, the more children learn abour sexuality from talking with their parents and teachers and reading accurate books, the less they feel compelled to find out for themselves.

The guy [Joe Biden] can barely remember what he’s talking about while he’s talking.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

I love therapy! There’s nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life.

If you think communication is all talking, you haven’t been listening.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

I am so close, I may look distant. So completely mixed with you, I may look separate. So out in the open, I appear hidden. So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

A lot of people think this is a goodie two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rather than celebrating who we are. I learned at my mother’s knee it’s better to appreciate what’s happening… I think we kind of talk ourselves into the negative sometimes.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Stockholders are used to a certain kind of global capitalism. This version is very hard on the environment and very hard on people below a certain fiscal level. It is a calculated, systematic weakening of people. Many labour, a few benefit. Try talking about cleaning up the place with these people. The hostility is incredible.

If I am gonna do all the talking, likely I am amongst dead people.

You shouldn’t speak until you know what you’re talking about. That’s why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I’m a f***ing actor! They hand me a script. I act. I’m here for entertainment, basically, when you whittle everything away. I’m a grown man who puts on makeup.

In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates’ debating skills have gone rusty. When you’ve been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently – let alone entertainingly – inevitably wanes.

You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don’t have to.

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it’s because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.

My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips, she’d be like, ‘Stop singing. Be quiet, you’re talking just to hear yourself speak.’ It was probably true. I like to ramble on, which is probably why I’m well suited to interviews. You know, there’s no other forum where you’re literally supposed to sit down and just talk for hours about yourself. I love it.

Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers.

Now let’s get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can’t, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.

I’ve never been very good talking about myself.

The government is a functionary of the corporations – and there’s nothing new about that. You can find people in the 1930s talking about the army basically working for Wall Street in all of these countries [it invades].

What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

The talking shows allow me to come out of my cave and that’s why those shows go on for so long. I hate walking off stage. Sometimes I walk off and I miss them as I’m walking off the stage. I wonder if they’ll let me go another hour. That’s why I do it: to communicate, to get points across.

How time flies when you’re doin all the talking.

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.

Most people don’t put things together. Geologists study the surface of the earth and geological phenomena. Meteorogists study the weather. That isn’t science. Science is the study of all things that affect human beings. They have to be together! A meteorologist has difficulty talking with a sociologist, because they don’t understand each other. You can’t teach sciences in ‘bits’; you have to bring it all together. Science is a way of thinking – a way at arriving at conclusions without your own opinion in it.

The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.

In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.