Talking

Famous quotes containing the word talking:

    In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power of being greatly useful.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won’t be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ironizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded.
    Socrates (469–399 B.C.)

    They said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?”
    Bible: New Testament, Luke 24:32.

    The Emmaus story.