I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
— Khalil Gibran
Stunning Talkative quotations
Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.
In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative.
But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.
A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God.
A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of that silence where the Lord dwells, is quite out of the question. A soul that has never tasted the sweetness of inner silence is a restless spirit which disturbs the silence of others.
The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking.
And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.
Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure.
For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.
I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.
I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic, talkative child. And that was part of my mother's creative solution - to put me in workshops and classes and children's theatre programmes.
When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.
They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism.
Error is always talkative.
Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late;
look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.
How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!
Love is talkative passion.
One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.
I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
Those social networks, there's something sad about them.
Is it because they don't have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don't understand it. It's like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
As people, [my parents were] very colorful, very talkative, passionate, they really loved each other. But that also meant heated, it meant there was a lot of drama in the house. Which is good for a filmmaker, I think.
Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.
I learnt silence from the talkative
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person.
Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.
I'm not usually in a talkative mode.
A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.
When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole wilderness is unity and interrelation, is alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly.
The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.
I always chose talkative people. And Viva, who was my first wife - we started making films together because she was extraordinarily creative. I was drawn to those people who tended to talk or act differently. The nice thing about using your friends as actors is they trust you. I wouldn't use footage of people that was destructive to them.