#dialog

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God. ↗

— Yann Martel

#dialogue #faith #god #ideas #life-of-pi

A two-headed man should have twice the IQ, and the ability to have internal dialogues externally.
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— Jarod Kintz

#external #head #intelligence #internal-dialogue #iq

Oh, go right ahead,' she replied. 'You seem to have such an affinity for canines.' 'Clearly,' he shot back, keeping his voice low so that Mary could not hear, 'they are not so different from women. Both breeds hang on my every word. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#humor #love

I watch silent movies on mute. But only for the dialogue.
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— Jarod Kintz

#movies #mute #silence #silent-movies #movies

No peace among the nations without peace among the religions. No peace among the religions without dialogue between the religions No dialogue between the religions without investigation of the foundation of the religions. ↗

— Hans Küng

#religion

And there are many people, both Moslem and Christian, who have a good grasp of each others0 conceptions of surrender to God an other principles. But the widespread existence of bias, misinformation and lack of knowledge (…) militate against the effectiveness of dialogue, (…) by the most subtle and one of the most effective of instruments, the subconscious, almost the subliminal, introduction of hostility. ↗

— Idries Shah

#dialogue #islam #jesus #mohammed #peace

This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human utterances. As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors, neither of an inquiry about ourselves and the world, nor of an accumulating body of information, but of a conversation, begun in the primeval forests and extended and made more articulate in the course of centuries. It is a conversation which goes on both in public and within each of ourselves. ↗

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

#dialogue #humanity #intercourse #body-image

Did you ever think about boys?' I say, staring up into the dark. 'There wasn't room,' she whispers, and her voice is unbelievably sad. 'At first, after Connor, I was just waiting. I was going to get a new boyfriend soon- as soon as I was prettier or better, more perfect. But after a while there was no room for anything else. If I though about kissing or sex, I just started feeling ugly, too awful for anything good. ↗

— Brenna Yovanoff

#boys #dialogue #eating-disorder #ghost #sad

I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable. ↗

— Adam Baldwin

#actor #always #because #behavior #dialogue

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#dialogue #i #i believe #i believe that #i see