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Quotes About Voice

That soft but penetrating voice that caressed your ears and climbed through your brain like a vine.
~ Ryu Muramaki
My love consumes me. Only my voice is left, a voice which has fallen in love with you whispers to you everywhere that I love you. Oh! Does it weary you to hear this voice? Everywhere it enfolds you; like an inexhaustible, shifting surround, I place my transparently reflected soul about your pure, deep being." —Johannes the Seducer, from_Either/Or_
~ Soren Kierkegaard
But but but what is the point of giving persons Freedom of Speech,' declaimed Butt the Hoopoe, 'if you then say they must not utilize same? And is not the Power of Speech the greatest Power of all? Then surely it must be exercised to the full?
~ Salman Rushdie
Enough of invisibility, silence, timidity, defensiveness, guilt! An invisible, silenced man was an empty space into which others could pour their prejudices, their agendas, their wrath. The fight against fanaticism needed visible faces, audible voices. He would be quiet no longer. He would try to become a loud and visible man.
~ Salman Rushdie
learning the knack of disconnecting her sense of smell, until she could switch it off like a radio and in the bland silence of its absence could drown in the sound of Nazarébaddoor's hypnotic voice without having her reverie interrupted by the scent of sheep shit or Nazarébaddoor's own frequent and extraordinary buffalo farts.
~ Salman Rushdie
The story of ten-year engagement and of Ormus' consequent oath of celibacy spreads quickly; and this, too, makes Ormus and Vina irresistible. The new band takes off almost at once, and the force of its ascending shakes the land. Starting at oddities, ther grow quickly into giants. At once conqueror and celebrant, Ormus storms the citadels of rock, and Vina's voice, as Yul Singh oversaw, is his weapon. Her voice is the servant of his melodies, his singing the servant of her voice.
~ Salman Rushdie
My father watched football with the sound off because he lived in fear of hearing the voice of Howard Cosell.
~ Rita Rudner
Sports plays an interesting role in society. The greatest sportsmen have platforms to speak out on issues and really affect how the public thinks about some very critical issues facing the world.
~ Hakeem Olajuwon
We must believe in the power and strength of our words. Our words can change the world.
~ Malala Yousafzai
I'm one of those people who feels like I have to be strong for those people who may not be able to find that strength. I feel like I have to speak up for those people whose voices go unheard.
~ Ibtihaj Muhammad
When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.
~ Chenjerai Hove
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery, and you shall live a life uncommon.
~ Jewel
If I'm able to use my voice to do good in the world then I definitely want to do that.
~ Demi Lovato
It's nice to be given a role where you can really find the strength from within, as a woman, and to be heard.
~ Nicky Whelan
The strongest words can be said in the softest voices and still be resonant.
~ Erin Finnegan, Sotto Voce
My friend,' said Maximilien, 'the voice of my heart is sad indeed and promises only misfortune.' 'Only a weak spirit sees everything from behind a dark veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is overcast, and that is why the sky seems stormy to you.
~ Alexandre Dumas
For Milady was well aware that her most seductive power was in her voice, which could run skilfully through the whole scale of tones, from mortal speech, upwards to the language of heaven.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Speak on, madame, speak on, Queen, said Buckingham; the sweetness of your voice covers the harshness of your words.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The softness of your voice covers the hardness of your words. You speak of sacrilege, but the sacrilege is in the separation of hearts that God has formed for each other!
~ Alexandre Dumas
man whom God made in His image, man to whom God gave this first, this sole, this supreme law, that he should love his neighbour, man to whom God gave a voice to express his thoughts – what is man's first cry when he learns that his neighbour is saved? A curse. All honour to man, the masterpiece of nature, the lord of creation!
~ Alexandre Dumas
The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.
~ Alice Hoffman
He spoke with a raven's voice, old and wise and far above the cruelty of the human race.
~ Alice Hoffman
Now Jet could hear his voice when the wind carried as he recited a quote from Cotton Mather. Families are the Nurseries of all Societies: and the First combinations of mankind.
~ Alice Hoffman
You're not invisible if you talk.
~ Alice Hoffman