Voice Quotes - Page 22

• It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

  Robert Purvis

  Respect, Government, Strongest

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• We are moving away from the old idea of leadership - leadership has less to do (now) with heroism. We don't look for... unblemished omnipotent heroes, but leaders who are complex, dependent, changeable... We do not need one dominant authority structure telling all our inner voices to shut up.

  Walter Truett Anderson

  Moving, Hero, Ideas

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• The voice of an Angel, the Heart of a Lamb, the spirit of a Lioness, the presence of a Goddess, love you R.I.P Whitney Houston.

  Wyclef Jean

  Love You, Heart, Angel

  Twitter post from Feb 11, 2012

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• It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

  Betty Friedan

  Answers, Realizing, Frightening

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• There will always be dissident voices heard in the land, expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side and seeking influence without responsibility.

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility, Land, Faults

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• Are you becoming more sweet-spirited, more like Jesus? Are you looking soberly in the mirror each day and praying, ‘Lord, I want to conform to Your image in every area of my life’? Or has your bitterness taken root, turning into rebellion and hardness of heart? Have you learned to shield yourself from the convicting voice of God’s Spirit?

  David Wilkerson

  Sweet, Jesus, Taken

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• We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. Use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Reading, Tired

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.14, HarperCollins

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• We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

  Khalil

  Courage, Heaven, Causes

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• The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.

  Wendy Lesser

  Self, Greek, Doe

  Wendy Lesser (2014). “Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books”, p.98, Macmillan

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• Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.

  Horace Walpole

  Distance, Heart, Letters

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• Excitement radiates through your eyes, your face, your voice, your soul, and your whole personality.

  Dale Carnegie

  Eye, Personality, Soul

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• Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.

  B. W. Powe

  Religious, Government, May

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• I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs.

  Dolly Parton

  Love, Music, Song

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• If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.

  Johannes Tauler

  Heart, Men, Years

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• Voices surround us, always telling us to move faster. It may be our boss, our pastor, our parents, our wives, our husbands, our politicians, or, sadly, even ourselves. So we comply. We increase the speed. We live life in the fast lane because we have no slow lanes anymore. Every lane is fast, and the only comfort our culture can offer is more lanes and increased speed limits. The result? Too many of us are running as fast as we can, and an alarming number of us are running much faster than we can sustain.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Running, Husband, Live Life

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.63, Harper Collins

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• Aunt Lovey used to tell me that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed a writer's voice. 'Read,' she'd say, 'and if you have a writer's voice, one day it will shout out, 'I can do that too!

  Lori Lansens

  Aunt, One Day, Used

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.6, Vintage Canada

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• I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.

  Catherine the Great

  Loud Voices, Rewards, Praise

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• Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Kindness, Tone, Affection

  Lafcadio Hearn (2015). “Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan”, p.39, Routledge

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• A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Book, Trenches, Humane

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• A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.

  Frances O'Grady

  People, Giving, Rewards

  "A single mum and the first female face of trade unionism - meet Frances O'Grady, Queen of the TUC" by Kevin Maguire, www.mirror.co.uk. July 16, 2012.

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• The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God.

  Paul Tournier

  Block, Men, Self

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• The one thing that is said to have surprised God is that the voice of intercession had ceased. 'And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor' (Isaiah 59:16).

  Samuel Chadwick

  Men, Saws, Said

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• Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular political discourse.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Political, Analysis, Insight

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• The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

  Francis Quarles

  Humility, Silence, Rhetoric

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.91

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• Strive with all your hearts, raise up your voices and shout, until this dark world be filled with light.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Heart, Dark, Light

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