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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela

Heart, Him, Language

Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
Amanda Peet

Beauty, Beautiful, Fun

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
Marilyn Monroe

Alone, Someone, Feeling

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Work, Peace, Enough

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
Dalai Lama

Best, Human, Down

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.
Bob Marley

Battle, Victory, Sweet

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Robert Frost

Forgive, Sense, Nonsense

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis

Mean, Words, Big

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Thomas Jefferson

Nothing, Question, Body

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Important, Far

The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
George Carlin

Reason, Accept, Whose

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
Thomas Jefferson

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde

Society, Here, Listen

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde

Music, Good, Bad

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller

Book, Friends, Here

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.
Eminem

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
John F. Kennedy

Politics, Women, Rather

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Carl Jung

Children, Educated

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Tony Robbins

Life, Live, Challenge

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan

Equality, Die, Common

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson

Wisdom, Listening, Lifetime

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
John Wayne

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Women, Impossible, Company

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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
Samuel Richardson

Great, Words, Eyes

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
Abigail Van Buren

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Robert Frost

Understand, Learn, Books

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert Frost

Money, Business, Poor

I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.
Marilyn Monroe

Friends, Here, Wonderful

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
Albert Camus

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.
Jane Wagner

God, Talks, Praying

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