Pastoral Resources

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex.

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic.

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock.

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.