Quotes About Voice

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Finally, and most notably, the ever-present tremble gave A.P.'s voice a slight quaver, so that when he spoke, it was like a ripple on a pond, and when he sang, it was faster, like the shimmering rush of a mountain creek over mossy rocks below.

For the age of the voice is over and we in the age of the written mark. The word on stone, the word on parchment, the word on cloth, the word that is even greater than the glyph, for the word provoke a sound in the mouth.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

Those that are elected to take part in the communal council are called voceros (spokespeople) because they are the voice of the community, and when they cease to be so, because the community no longer feels they are adequately transmitting the ideas and decisions of the community, these people can and should be recalled.

If anyone that Sunday suggested that there was an element of the sacred to her ritual, she likely would have disagreed. There was no open Bible. No sanctified cloth. No preacher or even professors substituting for a divinely inspired voice. Not even a candlestick before her. This ceremony was liturgy of a different order. If her desk were indeed an altar, it was a shrine not to God, but to words.

I was unimpressed, having heard ART's "villain of a long-running mythic adventure serial" voice before, but all the humans got quiet. Amena shifted uncertainly and looked at me. Then Ratthi whispered, "Was that a subtle threat?" I said, "No. It wasn't subtle.

Nobody fucking listens to me.

I meant to wait until I was back up to at least 90 percent performance reliability but I heard Amena say, "There's no weapon, you got the wrong ship." The fear in her voice was more obvious and I was suddenly in the room. (Impulse control; I should try to write a code patch for that.)

Spurred on by those in public life, the ordinary bigots seemed to find a voice.

Prefer the active voice unless there's a good reason for using the passive

Therefore the Law finds man not only unwilling but also unable to do what the Law demands. Thus he says here in the text that on the day of the assembly the people refused and could not hear the voice of the Law, and that therefore they asked for another teacher, one who would speak to them a word they could bear.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

His soft voice was his trademark and he had a saying: You can do more with a soft voice than a big stick.

But what he really liked about Marie Carter was her quietness. She had a quiet voice and a quiet nature.

His [Death] voice is cold at first, John. It seems unfeeling. But if you listen without fear, you find that when he speaks, the most ordinary words become poetry. When he stands close to you, your life becomes a song, a praise. When he touches you, your smallest talents become gold; the most ordinary loves break your heart with their beauty.

The tongue am I of those who lived before me, as those that are to come will be the voice of my unspoken thoughts. And so who shall be applauded if the song be sweet, if the prophecy be true?

In the Afghan parliament, apparently, they disconnect the mics when they don't want to hear the women speak).

Na literatura da Antiguidade, a autoridade da profunda voz masculina, por contraste com a feminina, é constantemente realçada. Tal como um tratado científico da Antiguidade afirma de modo explícito, uma voz grave indica coragem viril, uma voz aguda e feminina, cobardia.

The voice broke. Sobbing echoed off the cavern walls. Not a little boy. He stuck his head over the cavern entrance. "A woman?" Rafe spoke aloud. Trying to believe his own ears. The words echoed into the depths. There was no response, only sobs. But it was not his imagination. There really was