Quotes About Voice

I hurried after Sam, calling, "You might wait for us!" The last word, though it was but one syllable, covered two octaves, for my voice broke, as it had been doing lately with alarming frequency. Sam turned back with a mischievous grin on his face. "Was that your voice cracking, or were you attempting to yodel?

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.

I was named for flying—after those great birds we see over Sumer. Instead here we are, buried. I'd brought celebratory drinks, but come, let's toast irony instead.' 'I'm not going to celebrate this.' Mithila's voice shook. 'We can celebrate trying.

If you speak, you die. If you keep quiet, you die. So, speak and die.

Ad hominem and brutality are the voice and expression of logic and reasoning of impotents and inferiors.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.

His voice, what he said, remains, and it is here, all of those voices are here, in what I am telling you. If in the beginning there was the word, then perhaps, with humility at the smallness of our powers, in words a small part of us can return.

An announcement from a distant, guilty pulpit somewhere in his head told him this was God's punishment for unnatural acts. Another, quieter voice asked 'What's unnatural about loving someone?

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

3At each and every sunrise you will hear my voice As I prepare my sacrifice of prayer to you. Every morning I lay out the pieces of my life on the altar And wait for your fire to fall upon my heart.

each and every sunrise you will hear my voice As I prepare my sacrifice of prayer to you. Every morning I lay out the pieces of my life on the altar And wait for your fire to fall upon my heart.b

A woman needs fatalism more than a man. A woman's role in life is to listen, and when I listen I never hear anything but the howl of the wind. I prefer the sound of my own voice.

it sometimes seems that the quality of your work has less value than the volume of your voice.

it sometimes seems that the quality of your work has less value than the volume of your voice. And

I've felt sometimes like I'd be less trouble if I'd just sit back and be quiet. But dreams are too important. We can't just let our dreams dry up and die, because then our hearts would break.

I could hear the exasperation in her voice, so beautiful and familiar, but sad, too, like hearing church bells right before your funeral.

Peter stood, cleared his throat, and began to hum softly, then sing, slowly building up the song as his voice cleared. He found the old tune, the song of the Sunbird. And as he sung, as his rich voice echoed off the tall cliffs, the birds and the faeries lent him their voice and soon the tune drifted throughtout the garden.

come to feel that the voice of the

To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic.

for we have had our say, our words, our time for speaking, our moments of light

In speaking of these wondrous things I shall use my own words, though you may think they are the words of scripture, words spoken by other Apostles and prophets. True it is they were first proclaimed by others, but they are now mine, for the Holy Spirit of God has borne witness to me that they are true, and it is now as though the Lord had revealed them to me in the first instance. I have thereby heard his voice and know his word.

We must search the scriptures, accepting them as the mind and will and voice of the Lord and the very power of God unto salvation.

Some things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry — which is happening as I write — is one of them. It is the strongest means I have for raising my voice in opposition to those who continue to push us backwards instead of forwards.