Quotes with talks

  • Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
  • Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
  • He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
  • True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
  • Unfortunately, with fertility, time is not your friend. People are waiting longer to get married and longer to have kids, and so many more people are experiencing fertility issues. But no one ever talks about it.
  • Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.
  • He's dangerous because when God talks to him Bob will do whatever God asks him to do at great cost, even if no one agrees, if it's contrary to the way the stream is going, if Bob feels God is in it he will do it.
  • Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
  • When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is a wonderful genre because it is usually a story of a lone hero fighting against corruption in a dangerous world.
  • Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
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  • Carl Sandburg The machine yes the machine
    never wastes anybody's time
    never watches the foreman
    never talks back.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Harold Pinter The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.
    Harold Pinter
    English playwright, screenwriter and director (1930 - 2008)
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  • Lao-Tzu A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Samuel Johnson A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • W. H. Auden A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Frank Dane Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Samuel Johnson Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Mark Twain Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Brenda Blethyn Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.
    Brenda Blethyn
    English actress (1946 - )
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  • Norman Douglas He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Oscar Wilde He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Hybels He's dangerous because when God talks to him Bob will do whatever God asks him to do at great cost, even if no one agrees, if it's contrary to the way the stream is going, if Bob feels God is in it he will do it.
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Josh Billings I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Thomas Szasz If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Bertil Ohlin In 1922, I got a small stipend from the Swedish-American Foundation and went to Cambridge, England, for a few months and thereafter to Harvard University. In the summer, Cambridge was rather empty, but I am grateful for many pleasant talks about economics with Austin Robinson who, in the summer of 1922, seemed to be about as lonely as I was.
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Oscar Wilde Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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