#dialog

This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#decision-making #decision-making process #dialogue #founded #involves

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#fled #form #into #liberal #novels

And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

#comprehensive #connected #dialogue #discussed #embraces

The best sounds a kid will get is in a movie theater, with huge speakers, turned up loud. I always mix my music really loud. I don't care if you don't hear all the dialogue. The audience are not idiots. ↗

— John Hughes

#audience #best #care #dialogue #get

Listen, Nick; let me tell you what I said when she was born. Would you like to hear?” “Very much.” “It’ll show you how I’ve gotten to feel about — things. Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘all right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#dramatic-moment #beauty

Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#before #dialogues #experience #had #mermaid

I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to God. ↗

— Andy Dick

#been #call #day #developed #dialogue

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all. ↗

— Abba Eban

#any #between #chief #dialogue #distinction

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. ↗

— Truman Capote

#conversations #dialogue #due #few #good

I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths. ↗

— George Carey

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