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Quotes About Voice

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
~ Alexander Pope
No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.
~ Eugene V. Debs
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud.
~ Arlo Guthrie
How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
~ Isabel Allende
And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the blessed song of peace
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world.
~ Janine di Giovanni
and most of all she wondered about the man at the next table whose voice was like... like a dream which she did not know that she had dreamed.
~ Susan Glaspell
In today's America, intellectuals and nonintellectuals alike, whether on the left or right, tend to tune out any voice that is not an echo. This obduracy is both a manifestation of mental laziness and the essence of anti-intellectualism.
~ Susan Jacoby
Grone, please," Art said into the whistling microphone.
~ Susan McBride
Music is the language of the soul. Music captures our prayers and hopes and joys—and yes, our sorrows—and gives them voice, just as the paintings and the statues give them dimension.
~ Susan Meissner
Before you can learn anything else, your teachers must have taught you that your voice matters.
~ Susan Neiman
The library is a whispering post. You don't need to take a book off a shelf to know there is a voice inside that is waiting to speak to you, and behind that was someone who truly believed that if he or she spoke, someone would listen.
~ Susan Orlean
He also began writing his own column. He called it "In the Lion's Den" and wrote it in the voice of an opinionated English-speaking mountain lion.
~ Susan Orlean
You don't need to take a book off a shelf to know there is a voice inside that is waiting to speak to you, and behind that was someone who truly believed that if he or she spoke, someone would listen.
~ Susan Orlean
I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.
~ Susan Rice
She give me honey to make my voice sweet, but there never were a sweetness in me. I prefer a taste of rot.
~ Susann Cokal
I wanted to talk to him. To hear his dangerous voice, the voice that he used with women ('Hi, baby, how you doin'? Sittin' on the phone?' The 'hi' drawn out in a low, implicating whisper.) I wanted to hear the coldness that was so deep . . . That coldness of spirit that had made it so thrilling to get his attention.
~ Susanna Moore
you could use your mouth to speak rather than to inhale.
~ Susie Orbach
Here comes the bride. All dressed in white. For some reason, Chelsea could hear Bugs Bunny's voice in her head, singing the childish words that had been put to the tune. It would have been funny if she hadn't been so damn scared.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets," I say in my best seductive voice.
~ Suzanne Collins
I hear Peeta's voice in my head. She has no idea. The effect she can have. Obviously meant to demean me. Right? But a tiny part of me wonders if this was a compliment. That he meant I was appealing in some way. It's weird, how much he's noticed me. Like the attention he's paid to my hunting. And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either. The flour. The wrestling. I have kept track of the boy with the bread.
~ Suzanne Collins
Upon this crown my pledge I give, To my last breath,I hold this choice, I will your unjust deaths avenge, All here who died without a voice.
~ Suzanne Collins
Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice. That's how we met, with Finnick offering me sugar. Surrounded by horses and chariots, costumed and painted for the crowds, before we were allies. Before I had any idea what made him tick. The memory actually coaxes a smile out of me. "Here, it improves the taste," he says in his real voice, plunking three cubes into my cup.
~ Suzanne Collins