"Small talk is the biggest talk we do."

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Source : Susan RoAne (2009). “Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

Susan RoAne

#Talking Quotes #Small Talk Quotes

“How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.”

Source : Stephen Leacock (2012). “Feast of Stephen”, p.105, McClelland & Stewart
“I did my own thinking. I have never given it out to be done by others as one gives out washing.”

Source : "Sir William Mulock Reviews the Past". The Newmarket Era, pp. 1-2, news.ourontario.ca. April 06, 1934.
“I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could stop them.”
“Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.”
“We don't want to merely obey God: we need to catch His heart. It is then we will glimpse the wisdom behind His directives, and not just see them as laws.”

Source : FaceBook post by John Bevere from Aug 27, 2016
“People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to direct yourself. There's no middle man, you know.”
“I would say emotionally we've all turned into these sort of toxic, shallow, angry, polarized demons screaming at each other from across echo chambers. My whole thing is that I'm trying to get underneath the anger into the truth that's underneath it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The Bible doesn't sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it.”

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