Isaac of Nineveh Quotes

If you cannot close the mouth of one who reviles his brother, at least avoid conversation with him.

Isaac of Nineveh

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• Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Different
  • Country
  • Real

• What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nothing
  • Conversation

• Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • End
  • Conversation

• I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Sleep
  • Conversation
  • Weakness

• Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

  

  O. Henry
  • Existence
  • Conversation
  • Few

• A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Girl
  • Interesting
  • Sexy

• I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Great
  • Conversation

• On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Up
  • Day
  • Car

• An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Done
  • Job

• 'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Old
  • Conversation
  • Looking

• I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Small
  • Talk
  • Hide

• I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don't know on the surface of the moon or something.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Trying
  • Single
  • Wonder

• I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Fame

• If anything is naive and lightweight, it's the traditional political conversation.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Political
  • Conversation
  • Naive

• A woman doesn't find it contradictory to complain about not having anything to wear and about not having enough closet space in the same conversation. You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

  

  Marie Stopes
  • Soul
  • Beautiful
  • Space

• To me it was just incomprehensible... I have never been in trouble before... I will go miles away to avoid confrontation. I really don't like it,

  

  Peter Buck R.E.M.
  • Trouble
  • Avoid
  • Miles

• The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Way
  • Evil
  • Avoid

• The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

  

  Aristotle
  • Pain
  • Wise
  • Pleasure

• Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Conversation

• I have a radar built inside me to avoid punches.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Built
  • Avoid
  • Radar

• When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Business
  • Serious
  • Audience

• The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • Suffering
  • Fool
  • Foolish

• If you cannot close the mouth of one who reviles his brother, at least avoid conversation with him.

  

  Isaac of Nineveh
  • Conversation
  • Avoid
  • Reviles