Voice Quotes - page 12

The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the Kurdish people. (Jalal Talabani)
For my own part I have never been able to understand how he [Hitler] was capable, with his unmelodious and raucous voice, with his crude, often un-Germanically constructed sentences, and with a conspicuous rhetoric entirely at odds with the character of the German language, of winning over the masses with his speeches, of holding their attention and subjugating them for such appalling lengths of time. View quote
Victor Klemperer
He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine. View quote
David Weber
The poetry I love is written with someone's voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone's voice. And the human voice in that sense is not electronically reproduced or amplified. View quote
Robert Pinsky
When you listen to the voice in your head, listen to it impartially. That is to say, do not judge. You'll soon realize: there is the voice, and here I am listening to it, watching it. This I am realization, this sense of your own presence, is not a thought. It arises from beyond the mind. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
I speak and speak, ... but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. ... It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. View quote
Marco Polo
Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. View quote
William Shakespeare
Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once. View quote
William Shakespeare
And when love speaks, the voice of all the godsMakes heaven drowsy with the harmony. View quote
William Shakespeare
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God. (Mark Twain)
My voice is not so much 'bel canto' as 'can belto'. View quote
Harry Secombe
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice that is, until we stop saying 'It got lost,' and say 'I lost it.' View quote
Sydney J. Harris
It is a bad sign when a new-born babe has not lungs enough to make itself heard over the whole house. It is equally a bad symptom when the new convert is born dumb, and cannot find his voice to praise God audibly. View quote
Theodore L. Cuyler
The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. View quote
John Milton
The voice of Nature loudly cries, And many a message from the skies, That something in us never dies. View quote
Robert Burns
Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud - We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily... View quote
Wilhelm Reich
The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns The voice of one for millions, In whom the millions rejoice For giving their one spirit voice. View quote
George Meredith
The old laws of England - they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo - Liberty! View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A hymn is the praise of God with song; a song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks. View quote
Randall Jarrell
Images are books for the illiterate and silent heralds of the honor of the saints, teaching those who see with a soundless voice and sanctifying the sight. View quote
John of Damascus