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Quotes About Voice

I am alive in 21st Century America. I have a voice. Let it serve as a corrective to the violent and reckless power that stands against the force of love.
~ Tracy K. Smith
as Childs points out, we first need to hear the "discrete voice" of the OT, we must then go on to read the OT from a post-Christ perspective.
~ Tremper Longman III
Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.
~ Trevor McDonald
We learn we cannot form deep roots because we do not have the right to place or citizenship, and because we do not have citizenship to a place we do not have the right to a voice. We are alienated from our own past and from the future of the countries we live in. Where we are is the best we can hope for. We learn to be grateful.
~ Unknown
What's a nimposser?" asked another voice.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWK!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
No," Winter said in a bored voice. "He has a dragon-skull tattoo for every dragon he's ever killed," said Qibli. "He's covered in them." "Sounds a bit obvious." Winter yawned. "Why not just tattoo 'I'M TOTALLY MENACING' on his forehead.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
But then there will be dragons everywhere," he said. "Today the beach is all ours!" Clearsight gave a little shiver, and although he was trying not to listen, something fluttered through her mind: a whisper, an echo, his own voice shouting, "It's all ours! The whole kingdom is ours!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
There is always that little voice in your head saying, "What about me?" Sometimes that little voice drowns out the cry of the team, and the collective results of the group get left behind.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Harry's voice had matured like old port wine, it was deep and rich and liquid.
~ Unknown
It was the calm and tranquil voice of truth. That regardless of the cost there is an impulse in us that cries out to declare the truth. Or destroy ourselves.
~ Unknown
The moon's tip appeared above the sea. A gunboat fired: deep, booming note – the voice of an old solitary hound.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Tell the master, from me,' cried Jack, in a voice that reached almost to Cagliari, his face purple with effort and furious indignation, 'tell the master that he can take his man's toe and – with it.' He stumped below, £875 the poorer, and looking thoroughly sour and disagreeable.
~ Patrick O'Brian
The twenty years have nearly passed, and soon perhaps the voice of authority, speaking through Le Corbusier, will be heard: but so far the UNESCO picture is not looked upon as one of Picasso's successes.
~ Patrick O'Brian
You know, said Port, and his voice sounded unreal, as voices are likely to do after a long pause in an utterly silent spot, the sky here's very strange. I often have the sensation when I look at it that it's a solid thing up there, protecting us from what's behind. Kit shuddered slightly as she said: From behind? Yes. But what is behind? Her voice was very small. Nothing, I suppose. Just darkness. Absolute night.
~ Paul Bowles
There have been times, what with this and that, when the whisper of words was not enough. On some shelf of memory lies a misplaced summer, one not stored away for later savoring. Surely it ended early, with unexpected fogs, with the wind sliding past through unmeasured darkness. No voice could be enough, what with this and that, and the hours falling faster.
~ Paul Bowles
The hardest thing was simply to speak.
~ Pauline Réage
In a loud voice, he told her that he loved her. O, trembling, was terrified to notice that she answered "I love you," and that it was true.
~ Pauline Réage
Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.
~ Paulo Coelho
Only cowards hide behind silence.
~ Paulo Coelho
No es necesario hablar del amor, porque el amor tiene su propia voz, y habla por sí
~ Paulo Coelho
em," she said softly. "That guy with the sexy voice told 'em to get ready
~ Pearl Cleage
Nunca has pensado escribir?, tú hablas en poesía. ¿Lo sabes? A casi todas las locas enamoradas les florece la voz.
~ Unknown
We've raised a generation of girls to have a voice, to expect egalitarian treatment in the home, in the classroom, in the workplace. Now it's time to demand that "intimate justice" in their personal lives as well.
~ Peggy Orenstein