Voice Quotes
We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds.
Sigmund Freud
I have one thing in common with the emerging black nations of Africa: We both have voices, and we are discovering what we can do with them.
Miriam Makeba
We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part.
Margaret Chan
You know how bad my voice sounds - well it feels just as bad.
George Herbert Palmer
So planning something big." "If this is the work of the Overtakers, we've never seen anything like it." "It is," a voice said behind them. Maybeck slipped in alongside of them. "You about scared the pee out of me!" Charlene complained.
Ridley Pearson
In television, the creator is really the voice...
Tony Goldwyn
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
William Wordsworth
After Bill Shawn was fired, I was going to the YMHA Young Men's Hebrew Association on the Upper East Side to do a talk on free speech.I went into a coffee shop to get a piece of pie and a coffee, and I was reading a paper and I hear a voice. And it was -it was not a voice I was familiar with, but I looked across the table and I saw Lilian Ross.And sitting next to her was William Shawn - no tie, needed a shave. His voice was kind of coarse and rather loud. He wasn't drunk, but I was just stunned.
Nat Hentoff
The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?
Francis Bacon
His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.
William Shakespeare
The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence.
Brassaï
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
Charles Robert Maturin
If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
Joanne Rowling
Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.
Isaac Watts
In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others.
Katherine Howe
The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
William Ellery Channing
...and she felt the words come from some iron place within her that hadn't existed an hour ago. She didn't speak loudly, but there was such a change in her voice. Coming from that iron place, it was heavy and true; it wasn't persuasive, or desperate, or antagonistic. It just was.
Laini Taylor
The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.
Mahatma Gandhi
