Converse Quotes (20 quotes)

“Art must state a link to the challenges of previous eras and the twinkles and heartbeats of the present moment to ensure a ‘trans historic’ bond with our living world where past and present can converse. ("When is Art?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bond, challenges, converse, era, heartbeats, link, present-moment, trans-historic, twinkels, when-is-art

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“We had an unspoken love for one another. Probably because she’d never talk to me or return my phone calls or texts. ”
― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

tags: communicate, communication, converse, dialogue, funny, humor, love, talking

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“Every friend was once a stranger and if you know this, you have to understand that conversations are the beginning of connection”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

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“It comes down to this: If you want to be seen, heard and understood in the most genuine way possible, be open to the possiblity of vulnerability. Allow yourself to be open. I know it’s a scary place, a place very few people dare to venture, but just try it. Try moving the masks away and really looking at a person the next time they engaged in conversation with you.”
― Leigh Hershkovich

tags: conversation, converse, engage, hearing-voices, listen, listening, masks, vulnerability

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“Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas along.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, conversation, converse, conversing, deceive, deception, deep, dictum, dictums, enjoy, enjoyed, enjoyment, epigram, epigrams, funny, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, man, maxim, maxims, men, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sex, sexual-intercourse, south-africa, south-african, speak, talk, thought-provoking, thoughtful, vagina, vaginas, woman, women

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“I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: active, actor, actress, aesthetics, applied-arts, art, art-criticism, art-history, art-quotes, artist, artwork, beauty, conversation, converse, craft, create, creative, creative-writer, creativity, criticism, critique, dance, dancer, drama, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, literature, music, novelist, paint, painter, painting, participant, performance, performance-art, performing-arts, poet, practice, practicing, quotes, sculpt, sculptor, sculpture, singer, skill, songwriter, study, technique, theatre, visual-arts, what-is-art, works, writer

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“To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: accept, acceptance, answer, ask, begin, better, betterment, compassion, compassionate, condition, conversations, converse, empathy, friend, friendship, good, hear, improvement, judge, judgement, judgment, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kind, kindness, know, knowledge, kojouri, listen, listener, love, love-quote, lover, mindful, mindfulness, ourselves, quote, quotes, reply, reserve, respond, self, self-help, self-improvement, self-love, sincerely

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“I try to think of things to say but nothing comes, and if something did come I probably couldn't say it. This is my great obstacle, the biggest of all the boulders littering my path. In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, it all collapses.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

tags: barrier, boulders, challenge, consider, conversation, converse, disabled, eloquence, eloquent, feelings, impediment, mouth, nothing, obstacle, path, ponder, say, speak, speech, talk, think, thoughts, unable, words

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“The boring thing with taking a walk with someone is that your thoughts are then dictated by the subject or subjects of your conversation; and that is made worse by the fact that most sane people are terrified of silence whenever they are with or near someone.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: bore, boredom, boring, conversation, converse, dictate, fear, meditate, meditation, phobia, ramble, ramblers, relax, relaxation, silence, talk, talking, unwind, walk, walker, walking, walks

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“However, create a limit for your communications and interactions with the opposite sex and respect that limit, else you tear away your delicate moral fabrics.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

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“Be a good listener. With rapt attention, let every communication or conversation you have with your mentor, friends or even strangers be well understood.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

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“Your conversations are the beginning of your connections; be careful of your communications. Talk politely to strangers; you have no knowledge about how many of them will become your close friends forever!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

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“We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: aphorism, aphorisms, conversation, conversations, converse, double-standards, gossip, humor, humour, hypocrisy, hypocrite, hypocrites, personal, personal-life, personal-lives, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, satire, speak, speaking, tabloid, tabloids, talk, talking

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“We almost always start a conversation, or sustain one, merely to cover the silence with, or merely to keep the silence covered by, the sounds of our words, which seldom form important statements or questions.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

tags: boredom, chat, chatting, conversation, converse, self-consciousness, silence, solitude, sound, talking

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“Most people rarely really want to converse. They usually merely want to be heard.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: communication, conversation, converse, ego, expression, narcissism, self-expression, talk, talking, vanity

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“Most people usually start a conversation when they are sick and tired of not having something to say.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: companion, company, conversation, converse, have-anything-to-say, have-nothing-to-say, shut-up, silence, talk-too-much, talking

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“Prayer is the ability to converse privately with the God who carries the power to answer you publicly.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man

tags: converse, gift-gugu-mona-books, gift-gugu-mona-quotes, god-quotes, pray, prayer-quotes, privately, publicly, spiritual-quotes

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“To converse is to risk the unraveling of the said and the unsaid.”
― Claudia Rankine, Just Us: An American Conversation

tags: converse, debate, free-speech, justice, liberty, risk, said, unraveling

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“You can’t dance for shit.” He dragged me along, his footing exact, his scowl growing.

“You can’t converse for shit,”
― Jane Washington, A City of Whispers

tags: banter, converse, dance, lol, shit

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“They won’t want to put themselves in my shoes because they have Chuck Taylors and Stan Smiths while I have Sams Clubs.”
― GLEN NESBITT, SUS: Short Unpredictable Stories

tags: converse, designer-clothes, empathy, poor, shoes

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