Quotes About Clamor

Those that clamor loudest for Columbus to be erased from the pages of American history do so far more because of their hatred for America than their love of the Indians.

The day counts on labor; the night counts on thinking. Clamor is useful for the first; silence for the second.

And what happens if we don't remember? What happens if we never knew? Too many of us are here in the dark because in the rush and clamor of blood the third reptilian brain takes over, the one that says I do not recognize anything of myself in you, and so you are less than nothing.

Whenever a clamor is raised, and idle men get to work, it is highly necessary to examine facts carefully, and without unreasonably suspecting men of falshood, to examine, and enquire attentively, under what impressions they act.

la oración contestada no es privilegio de los que tienen algún gran nombre o que pertenecen a alguna élite espiritual. Es la herencia de todos los que claman al Señor.

These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound.

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

It's the noisiest thing I've ever experienced.

Dusty rarely barks, but did she ever send up a clamor now, barking like there was no tomorrow.

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you.

the hills like poets put on purple thought against the magnificent clamor of day tortured in gold

Om vijf minuten voor twaalf klonk er buiten een luid gebrul, gevolgd door een gerinkel als van oorlogvoerende steelpannetjes.

Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere

I come from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its terrible wreckage and ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamor for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or the son of some poor widow - who will have to do the fighting and dying.

There's a clamor among the Salvadoran people to combat corruption.

I imagined a dark world where the stars clamor to be inside us. Whatever we invent becomes the history we have to live. In truth, it takes only a handful of history's shadows to commandeer our dreams It takes a famine of the heart to empty the streets of our words. It takes an imaginary terror to rid ourselves of imagination. from "Involuntary Beginnings

The city had grown larger and had changed in every way, had in fact become one of the civilized cities, bearing the contradictory characteristics of large cities in every way: in the absurd and the beautiful, and in its clamor and strange and extraordinary ways, where the new and the old merged, and where strangers, with their different customs, had multiplied, while it was in a state between opening out, disintegrating, conserving, and taking root.

Noise: a stench in the ear.

No voice, no brains; just break up a meeting that they have not the wit to address. The electors will know how to deal with a party whose only weapon is idiotic clamour.'143