Tone Quotes

• We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relationship, Ideas, Voice

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• Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

  Josephine Baker

  Mean, Equality, Men

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• Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

  Hoda Kotb

  Listening, Important, Conversation

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• When I read the statements of Christ, there seems to be this urgency and intensity. I guess that's what I get out of it when I read the tone of the Scriptures, which is very different from
  the tone of our culture.

  Francis Chan

  Different, Culture, Scripture

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• The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Kindness, Eye, Voice

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• Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Personality, Pieces, Individual

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Argument, Temper

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.223, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

  Robert Frost

  Mean, Voice

  Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

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• When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.

  David Sanborn

  Play, Nuance, Acoustics

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• The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Character, Writing, Mind

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.

  Robert Holden

  Our Relationship, Boost Self Esteem, Boost Self Confidence

  Robert Holden (2011). “Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast”, p.72, Hay House, Inc

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• The calm and tolerant atmosphere that prevailed during the elections depicts the type of South Africa we can build. It set the tone for the future. We might have our differences, but we are one people with a common destiny in our rich variety of culture, race and tradition.

  Nelson Mandela

  Change, Destiny, Race

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.133, Pan Macmillan

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• Tone has the living soul.

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Soul

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• 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

  Lewis Carroll

  Mean Girls, Use, Wonderland

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 6

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• One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Opinion, Argument

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• Take the tone of the company you are in...

  Lord Chesterfield

  Advice, Conformity, Company

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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• Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

  Anthony Trollope

  Girl, Eye, Dark

  Anthony Trollope (1862). “Orley farm”, p.141

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• The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

  Truman Capote

  Malice, Quietness

  Truman Capote (2001). “In Cold Blood”, p.95, Vintage

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• I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

  Samuel Beckett

  Asking For Help, Helping, Groaning

  Samuel Beckett (1967). “Stories & Texts for Nothing”, p.62, Grove Press

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• Coming to appreciate your worth can, in some cases, dramatically improve your circumstances by changing the choices you make and the actions you take. And as you begin to treat yourself with more respect, other people begin to do the same, since we subconsciously "train" others how to treat us through messages we send through body language, tone of voice, and other subtle cues and behaviors. Discovering your innate worth and living from that place allows you to make more constructive choices-to choose the higher roads of life

  Dan Millman

  Self, Voice, People

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• The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

  Charles Colson

  Stories, Next, Firsts

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• Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivational Sports, Workout, Stress

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Effort, Mind, Body

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• I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.

  Sylvia Plath

  Famous Inspirational, Book, Skills

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• The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

  Henry Adams

  Summer, Sunny Weather, Sunny Afternoon

  Henry Adams (1946). “The Education of Henry Adams”

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