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Quotes About Voice

The cure for the ills of Democracy is more Democracy.
~ Jane Addams
In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.
~ Jane Fonda
and my professional idol Vanessa Redgrave. There is a quality about Vanessa that makes me feel as if she resides in a nether-world of mystery that eludes the rest of us mortals. Her voice seems to come from some deep place that knows all suffering and all secrets. Watching her work is like seeing through layers of glass, each layer painted in mythic watercolor images, layer after layer, until it becomes dark—but even then you know you haven't come to the bottom of it.
~ Jane Fonda
Wisdom I who have decided to love mankind instead of men, to love life's contradictions, impossibilities. I who have grown into a fine old philosopher, when suddenly the telephone rings, his voice prickling the length of my neck. Or he teases me, calls me sweet little goose and my heart careens. What we love in another is the life in that person; that is why we must never seek to possess him. sweet little goose
~ Janice Kulyk Keefer
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
Suddenly you're scrounging for your next meal, but "say, do you want to make a deal?" There's fear in that line, in that melody, in that voice.
~ Jann S. Wenner
Death has no repeal. It is a brute ending that leaves us the legacy of an inscrutable silence. Therefore, I understand the voice of mercy very well.
~ Janny Wurts
Los hombres tenemos la capacidad de meter miedo a las mujeres con una mera inflexión de la voz o una frase amenazadora y fría, nuestras manos son más fuertes y aprietan desde hace siglos.
~ Javier Marías
Rabbi, Rabbeinu Tam, states that: the soul is the knower of the known.  In other words, the soul is the small voice beyond the mind that impels the conscious mind to think, feel or act.
~ DovBer Pinson
Jesus comes to you in the midst of the struggle, when the battle is almost unbearable and the circumstances look impossible. With the voice of absolute certainty and strength, He speaks to you
~ Dr. David Jeremiah
divine-human partnership in which God provides the wisdom, direction and power, and we supply the body and voice. His is the Kingdom, power and glory. Ours is the asking.
~ Dutch Sheets
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses
~ E.E. Cummings
love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun more last than star
~ E.E. Cummings
Even if the voice is relevant to the situation at hand, it will interpret it in terms of the past. This is because the voice belongs to your conditioned mind, which is the result of all your past history as well as of the collective cultural mind-set you inherited. So you see and judge the present through the eyes of the past and get a totally distorted view of it.
~ Eckhart Tolle
preocu-parse". A veces esta pista de sonido va acompañada por imágenes visuales o "películas mentales". Incluso si la voz es relevante para la situación del momento, la interpretará de acuerdo con el pasado. Esto se debe a que la voz pertenece a su mente condicionada
~ Eckhart Tolle
Even if the voice is relevant to the situation at hand, it will interpret it in terms of the past. This is because the voice belongs to your conditioned mind, which is the result of all your past history as well as of the collective cultural mind-set you inherited.
~ Eckhart Tolle
All day long you sit and sew, Stitch life down for fear it grow, Stitch life down for fear we guess At the hidden ugliness. Dusty voice that throbs with heat, Hoping with your steel-thin beat To put stitches in my mind, Make it tidy, make it kind, You shall not: I'll keep it free Though you turn earth, sky and sea To a patchwork quilt to keep Your mind snug and warm in sleep!
~ Edith Sitwell
But it was one of those moments when neither seemed to speak deliberately, when an indwelling voice in each called to the other across unsounded depths of feeling.
~ Edith Wharton
Sir Helmsley imparted this information in a loud, almost challenging voice, as he always did when he had to communicate anything unexpected or difficult to account for. Explaining was a nuisance, and somewhat of a derogation. He resented anything that made it necessary, and always spoke as if his interlocutor ought to have known beforehand the answer to the questions he was putting.
~ Edith Wharton
Norton was supremely gifted as an awakener, and no thoughtful mind can recall without a thrill the notes of the first voice which has called it out of its morning dream.
~ Edith Wharton
Instead of listening to the voice of ambition, Theodosius resolved to imitate the moderation of his grandfather, and to seat his cousin Valentinian on the throne of the West.
~ Edward Gibbon
At times I like it when he is just a deep echo, one utterance after another filling every crevice of the room, a voice that sounds like it's never been an infant's whimper, a boy's whisper, a young man's mumble, a voice that speaks as if every word it has ever uttered has always been and will always be for me.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Taking turns, they exchanged tales quickly, the haste in their voices sometimes blurring the words, for greater than their desire to be heard was the hunger to tell. One could hear it in the fervor of the declarations, the obscenities shouted when something could not be remembered fast enough, when a stutter allowed another speaker to race into his account without the stutterer having completed his.
~ Edwidge Danticat
When Heckel spoke, his voice emerged from a miniature pipe organ projecting from the top of his helmet. He had to keep making adjustments to knobs in his chest area to stop the voice becoming too shrill or deep.
~ Alastair Reynolds