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Quotes About Voice

Inside a tent her voice was shrill enough to sour yak butter. She was no longer gasping, which I missed because the pauses gave my ears a chance to rest. I
~ Roland Smith
We spend our days badgered by voices that tell us to judge others, fear others, harm others, or harm ourselves. But we are not obligated to listen to those voices, or even to take responsibility for them. They may be where we come from, but they are not where we are going. There is another voice, a voice that shines. Ahimsa is the practice of listening to that voice of lightness, cultivating that voice, trusting that voice, acting upon that voice.
~ Rolf Gates
quand je serai grand j'écrirai moi aussi les misérables parce que c'est ce qu'on écrit toujours quand on a quelque chose à dire.
~ Romain Gary
Seul l'Océan dispose des moyens vocaux qu'il faut pour parler au nom de l'homme.
~ Romain Gary
Foarte aproape de noi, p?durea râdea uneori cu o voce un pic ascuÈ›it? de feti?? È™i apoi se aÈ™ternea o t?cere îndelungat? È™i era greu s? nu o b?nuieÈ™ti de un s?rut, sau chiar mai r?u. Era totuÈ™i o p?dure foarte demn? È™i chiar afectat?, care avea mai multe titluri de nobleÈ›e.
~ Romain Gary
A society has many pasts from which it chooses those that go into the creation of its history. The choice is made by those in authority—the authority being of various kinds—although occasionally the voice of others may be heard.
~ Romila Thapar
Nuestras vidas empiezan a acabarse el día en que guardamos silencio sobre las cosas importantes MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR
~ Ron McMillan
Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't.
~ Ron Wyden
We fail to recall that the one gift we have to offer the nation is not a partisan vote, but a consistent moral voice grounded in the perfect love and perfect righteousness of God.
~ Ronald J. Sider
The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter
~ Rosa Luxemburg
Women are the greatest wronged and still-suffering majority in the history of the world, and we can never say that loudly or long enough.
~ Rosalind Miles
each person's truth is of equal value. No one gets to speak for anyone else or dismiss an opinion just because it's not shared by the people who have the most power.
~ Rosalind Wiseman
But the central self is open and aware because it need only be the unique voice that it is, an expression that transcends the personality that got it out of childhood alive.
~ Rosamund Stone Zander
Her voice was often heavy with dismissed hope.
~ Louise Erdrich
Who but an NDN would know that some days truth is a ghost who shouts in the voice of no one in particular and other days it is a secret nostalgia poured into the coffee cups of the living?
~ Louise Erdrich
Still what? I made my voice grating and sarcastic. I was never like so many Indian boys, who'd look down quiet in their anger and say nothing. My mother had taught me different.
~ Louise Erdrich
Who but an NDN would know that some days truth is a ghost who shouts in the voice of no one in particular and other days it is a secret nostalgia poured into the coffee cups of the living? —Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
~ Louise Erdrich
Conscience is the voice of God.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Certainty is as it were a tone of voice in which one declares how things are, but one does not infer from the tone of voice that one is justified.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
A certeza é por assim dizer um tom de voz em que alguém declara como são as coisas, mas não se infere desse tom que tem razão.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
I say, William, have you a word that rhymes with jewel?" Hamlet asked with the hoarsened voice of one who had bellowed one too many battle cries. And William, who never had any words to utter that weren't variations on some curse or another, said helpfully, "Ah," then promptly fell silent. "Try fool," Richard muttered. "And be certain to apply it to me.
~ Lynn Kurland
It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent
~ Madeleine K. Albright
Someone said, 'It's all been done before.' Yes, I agreed, but we all have to say it in our own voice.
~ Madeleine L'Engle