Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?'
'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.
Tags: stupidity conversation slander talking rumours stupid-people chatting
Don't underestimate her ability to talk, it's her superpower.
Carrie VaughnTags: talking superpower
Let me alone," said Mildred
"Let you alone!" He almost cried out with laughter. "Letting you alone is easy, but how can I leave myself alone? That's what's wrong. We need not to be let alone. We need to be upset and stirred and bothered, once in a while, anyway. Nobody bothers anymore. Nobody thinks. Let a baby alone, why don't you? What would you have in twenty years? A savage, unable to think or talk--like us!
Tags: books thinking alone talking savage bothered
Talking is not easy. Talking intends to convey what you mean. Lying is easy, not talking. When one lies, one does
not care, and that’s the easy part.
Tags: inspirational lie lying talking
The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.
Ariel GoreTags: silence talking introverts socialization
But there is saying, and there is doing, and almost always people do something better than they can talk about it, as though the minded body defeats every attempt to select out only the mind part as deserving sole responsibility for the success.
Alice KollerTags: success solitude mind heart doing talking
Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.
Shannon L. AlderTags: compassion communication jealousy hatred understanding anger games cruelty competition listening sisters talking pity fake reaching-out mental-disorders hurting-people fake-christians family-members no-communication no-talking passive-agressive-behavior
They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.
Gloria WhelanTags: doing change-the-world artistic talking bohemian visonary
I don’t care too much about talking, but I don’t like being alone.
Ida LøkåsTags: life friendship alone talking
We had an unspoken love for one another. Probably because she’d never talk to me or return my phone calls or texts.
Dark Jar Tin ZooTags: humor love communication funny talking dialogue communicate converse
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