"There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation."

-- Robert Breault

#Silence Quotes #Embarrassing Quotes #Conversation Quotes

“When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often accepted at face value, whereas evidence that contradicts them is critically scrutinized and discounted. Our beliefs may thus be less responsive than they should to the implications of new information”

Source : Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.50, Simon and Schuster
“I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.”
“Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.”

Source : Charles Templeton (1955). “Life Looks Up”, New York : Harper
“Mendanbar took a deep breath. You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me. This wasn't coming out at all the way he had wanted it to, but it was too late to stop now. He hurried on, As Queen of the Enchanted Forest, if you think you would like that. I would.”
“Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.”
“It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.”
“I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.”

Source : They're not laughing now ..., www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.
“I've always known where I wanted to go in life.”

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