Quotes About Clamor

In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.

Men's minds are as variant as their faces," he wrote. "Liberality and charity . . . ought to govern in all disputes about matters of importance." On the other hand, "clamor and misrepresentation . . . only serve to foment the passions, without enlightening the understanding.

the haunts of certain nocturnal birds which during the day remain in their caves but at night come out to feed.… At nightfall these birds come out from their caves with such an outcry and varying clamor that one cannot help being afraid until one realizes the reason.

Thornton tenía la duda pintada claramente en el semblante, pero aquello despertó su espíritu de lucha, el que hace crecer al hombre ante las dificultades, le impide aceptar lo imposible y lo hace sordo a todo lo que no sea el clamor de la batalla.

What a Babel of voices it was, everybody directing everybody else, and everybody doing everything wrong!

En aquel momento yo sabía muy poco de mí y del mundo, no tenía sino una única frase en mi cabeza: «En la angustia clamé al Señor y Él me contestó desde el espacio en libertad».

En la angustia clamé al Señor y Él me contestó desde el espacio en libertad».

Tum plausu fremituque virum studiisque faventum consonat omne nemus, vocemque inclusa volutant litora, pulsati colles clamore resultant.

Avenue. The lobby was hushed as a library, but beyond those doors, she knew, were the cracked concrete sidewalks and the rush and clamor and ruthlessness of the city.

O amor é o grande manifesto; a urgência de ser, de ter alguma importância e, se a morte vier, morrer com valentia, com clamor — em suma, permanecer na memória.

The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.

Obviously we were having an effect, because all these people were clamouring to meet us. Like Muhammad Ali, for instance.

It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gibbering with palsied jawhasps, his hands putting back the night like some witless paraclete beleaguered with all limbo's clamor.

There were shouts.

The silence is screaming out for noise.

This is too busy a world for us to stop and wonder whether a man wants what he does not ask for. Too many are clamoring loudly for what we cannot give...

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right.

It's gone!" he shouted. "The brandy!" said Prudie, lurching to her feet. "'Ere, who's stolen it? 'Twas there an hour gone—" "Not all three kegs!" said Constable Vage, instantly alert. "Why we did oughter have heard them. They couldn't move three kegs without—" "Nay," said Ned Bottrell, shouting above the clamor. "Not the drink, the corpse!

No injury I could imagine would justify the repulsive clamor coming from the revelers. They sounded like sheep who had been lobotomized and then beaten with heavy clubs festooned with fishhooks.

Teams fail—and the failure rate has been high—primarily because they do not impose on themselves the self-discipline and responsibility that are required precisely because of the high degree of freedom team organization gives. No task force can be "permissive" and function. This is the reason why the same young educated people who clamor for team work tend so often in reality to resist it. It makes tremendous demands on self-discipline.

You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That's what it's like listening to you speak.

What in the hell is going on around here?" she yelled. "Could you guys keep it down to aircraft-carrier noise?

un hombre, por política, puede clamar contra el pecado; pero no puede aborrecerlo sino en virtud de una piadosa antipatía contra él. He oído a muchos clamar contra el pecado, en el púlpito, que sin embargo lo siguen albergando en el corazón, en su casa y en su conversación.

Loud sounds are everywhere.