Quotes About Voice
His larger argument was that a president should not simply defer to the will and wishes of the Congress or the judiciary. Instead, Jackson was saying, the president ought to take his own stand on important issues, giving voice as best he could to the interests of the people at large.
~ Jon Meacham
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the working class who fight all the battles, the working class who make the supreme sacrifices, the working class who freely shed their blood and furnish the corpses, have never yet had a voice in either declaring war or making peace," Debs said. "It is the ruling class that invariably does both. They alone declare war and they alone make peace.
~ Jon Meacham
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The world in which Alex is a leading voice — a loose collection of internet conspiracy theorists and nationalists and some racists — suddenly had a name: the "alt-right movement.
~ Jon Ronson
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To, ?e milcz?, nie znaczy, ?e nie mam nic do powiedzenia.
~ Jonathan Carroll
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He had shining dark eyes and an oboe voice and mink-soft hair and could seem, even to Gary, more sentient animal than little boy.
~ Jonathan Franzen
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Silence, however, is a useful statement only if someone, somewhere, expects your voice to be loud.
~ Jonathan Franzen
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It is the comfortable people, by and large - those like the Reading Teacher - who make the decisions in our society. It is the people who those decisions are going to affect who are expected to stand quietly, and watch patiently, and wait.
~ Jonathan Kozol
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It's so hard to express yourself.' I understand this.' I want to express myself.' The same is true for me.' I'm looking for my voice.' It's in your mouth.' I want to do something I'm not ashamed of.' Something you are proud of, yes?' Not even. I just don't want to be ashamed.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
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His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
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E asa de greu sa te exprimi. - Eu inteleg. - Eu vreau sa ma exprim. - La fel si eu. - Imi caut vocea. - E in gura ta.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
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Stephen Hawking won't come to Israel? I'm not one to punch a quadriplegic with glasses, but I'm sure he won't mind if we ask for his voice back—you know, the one that was created by Israeli engineers.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Of all man's instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something else altogether: the book is an extension of memory and imagination.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
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Mindig azt mondtam a tanítványaimnak, hogy ne csináljanak bibliográfiát, ne olvassanak kritikákat, olvassák magukat a m?veket; lehet, hogy keveset fognak belÅ'lük érteni, de élvezni fogják az olvasást, és mindig hallani fogják valakinek a hangját.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
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Vi alguna lágrima. El hombre alzaba o alejaba la voz y los acordes casi iguales eran monótonos o, mejor aún, infinitos. Yo hubiera querido que el canto siguiera para siempre y fuera mi vida. ...
~ Jorge Luís Borges
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There is no poet who is the total voice of love, hate, despair. That is, the great verses of humanity have still not been written. This imperfections should raise our hopes.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
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The voice of the Lord answered from a whirlwind: Neither am I anyone; I have dreamt the world as you dreamt your work, my Shakespeare, and among the forms in my dream are you, who like myself are many and no one.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
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Quando leggiamo versi davvero straordinari, davvero buoni, tendiamo a farlo ad alta voce. Un buon verso non si lascia leggere a bassa voce o in silenzio. Se ci riusciamo, non è un verso efficace: il verso esige di essere declamato. Il verso non dimentica di essere stato un'arte orale prima di essere un'arte scritta, non dimentica di essere stato un canto.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
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Lidah boleh dipercaya waktu merasa; wajar dicuriga sebaik bersuara.
~ A. Samad Said
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First don: O cuckoo, shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice? Second don: State the alternative preferred, With reasons for your choice.
~ A.E. Housman
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I don't know what to say.' 'That's okay. Sometimes talking is like singing in a storm.' 'Like when you're scared?' 'Exactly.' 'Or when you're sad?' 'That too. A voice can be reassuring.
~ Élise Turcotte
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The voice of a Muslim woman is also 'aura. Not only because the sweet words coming from her mouth must be heard only by her husband and master, but because the voice may create a disturbance and set in train the cycle of zin?.
~ Abdelwahab Bouhdiba
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So I smiled and began to talk in what I hoped was a genial and friendly voice, but as soon as I started I could hear resonances of my teacher tones: informative, seeking to persuade, holding things back. I pressed on. I was a teacher, that was what I was. I was unfulfilled.
~ Abdulrazak Gurnah
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
~ Aberjhani
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