Quotes About Voice

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

Nothing is so hateful to the philistine as the "dreams of his youth." ... For what appeared to him in his dreams was the voice of the spirit, calling him once, as it does everyone. It is of this that youth always reminds him, eternally and ominously. That is why he is antagonistic toward youth.

Silence and tacit consensus always, without fail, protect privilege. That is why the privileged are characteristically silencers.

It is evident that immunity to any transcendent voice and disregard of neighbor leads finally to the disappearance of passion. And where passion disappears there will not be any serious humanizing energy.

4. There is a text that looms in resilient power. There is a waiting congregation, perhaps not tired out, but too sure of self, pretending buoyancy where there might have been transformation. There is the voice that takes the old script and renders it to evoke a new world we had not yet witnessed (cf. Isa. 43:19). The fourth and final partner is this better world given as fresh revelation.

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing.

Sarah's lips curl..."That's not my kind of action." Still, there is a trace of hesitation in her voice, as if she's bidding farewell to a cherished dream, having found its price.

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

There is no necessity for a technique or formula for meditation. Inner feeling, or inner knowing, is the silent voice of inspiration.

Judging by the trace of accent in her voice, she had attended one of the Eastern colleges that teach women how to wear Harris tweed and talk with their teeth clenched.

He has the gift of a voice and I have the gift of the grateful ear, and God has brought us together. It is a sharing of wealth, is it not? But if you do not get that, what you do is you fall into resentment, envy, and comparison. The spirit of comparison is evil.

The more time you spend in the Word of God, the more easily you will recognize the Spirit of God's voice when He speaks to you. It may not be audibly, but you will sense the convicting hand of God upon your heart.

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The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.

I started yelling in a loud voice, "Dignity!" What did we want after dignity? We didn't know. But we knew that we needed more than just food.

I didn't know it would be so cold." Though he remained unbending, poised as if to flee, Kris's voice was melodic. Sweet. Thorne's stomach clenched. Listening to him was like music.

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

I change from present to past tense and back again, and use an annoying passive voice throughout the whole thing.

The suppression of doubt contributes to overconfidence in a group where only supporters of the decision have a voice.

suppression of doubt contributes to overconfidence in a group where only supporters of the decision have a voice. The main virtue of the premortem is that it legitimizes doubts.

tu sais le pauvre parle fort, c'est une de ses caractéristiques, un invariant historique et géographique, il parle fort depuis toujours et dans le monde entier, il parle d'autant plus fort qu'il est entouré de pauvres, le pauvre, et qui parlent fort eux aussi, pour se faire entendre, comprends-tu? Le pauvre a la cloison mince. Et il jure beaucoup, c'est vrai, mais sans penser à mal, rassure-toi...

La nostra voce è la musica che fa il vento quando ci attraversa il corpo (be', quando non esce da sotto).

Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you'll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you'll be tempted to say to the people around you, "how can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?

her little cat voice.