Voice Quotes - Page 27

• Intimacy is not trapped within words. It passes through words. It passes. The truth is that intimates leave the room. Doors close. Faces move away from the window. Time passes. Voices recede into the dark. Death finally quiets the voice. And there is no way to deny it. No way to stand in the crowd, uttering one's family language.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Moving, Dark, Doors

  Richard Rodriguez (2004). “Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez”, p.40, Bantam

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• It takes intentional effort to tune out every voice except God's.

  Henry Blackaby

  Effort, Tunes

  Henry Blackaby (2006). “Called to Be God's Leader: How God Prepares His Servants for Spiritual Leadership”, p.69, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Children, Men, Air

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• Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they no longer feel the aliveness within them. To be unable to feel the life that animates the physical body, the very life that you are, is the greatest deprivation that can happen to you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Body, Deprivation

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.152, Penguin

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• The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Real, Silent

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “Life of the Beloved”, Hachette UK

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• Seeds carry life from generation to generation without end. Through the seeds speak the voices of the ancestors. Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.

  Kenny Ausubel

  Generations, Speak, Plant

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• Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.

  Ha Jin

  Writing, Cogs, Machines

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• Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."
  
  [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

  Desmond Tutu

  Addresses, Foundation, November

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• Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Silence, Sensitive

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• Even if you think you're doing well and have it all figured out, there is a voice you will always inevitably hear at some point which nags at you and says "but wait..." Don't ever dismiss it, listen to what it has to say. Life will never be close enough to perfect, and listening to that voice means stepping outside of yourself and considering your own wrongdoings and flaws.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Mean, Thinking, Perfect

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• Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice.

  Khalil Gibran

  Giving, Ears, Give Me

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Music is love in search of a voice.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Music, Music Is

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• Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Events, Reform, May

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• Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and blessing, as well as responsibility!

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Book, Reading, Responsibility

  Interview with Rachel Barenblat, www.pifmagazine.com. August 1999.

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• When you worry, there is static coming through your mind radio. God's song is the song of calmness. Nervousness is the static; calmness is the voice of God speaking to you through the radio of your soul.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Song, Worry, Soul

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• Everyone has choice when to and not to raise their voices: It's you who decides.

  George Harrison

  Choices, Raises

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• The mighty hunter," I quipped as we snuck out the backdoor, escaping into the yard. "He can take down vicious rabids and rampaging boars, but one old lady can make him flee in terror.""One scary old lady," he corrected me, looking relieved to be out of the house. "You didn't hear what she told me when I got up - you're so cute I could put you in a pie. Tell me that's not the creepiest thing you've ever heard." His voice climbed a few octaves, turning shrill and breathy. "Today for dessert, we have apple pie, blueberry pie and Ezekiel pie.

  Julie Kagawa

  Cute, Escaping, Apples

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• Now, now," said Vale in a sickeningly sweet voice reminiscent of a nursery nanny. "I already gave him a drubbing for courting Emmie."Reynaud raised his eyebrows. "You did?""He did not," Hartley said even as Vale nodded happily. "I threw him down the stairs."Vale pursed his lips and looked skyward. "Not my recollection, but I can see how your memory of the event may've become hazy.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Sweet, Memories, Eyebrows

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• His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid rose and fellHis troubled voice: he did the business well.(First verse of Died of Wounds)

  Siegfried Sassoon

  White, Nurse, Rose

  Siegfried Sassoon, “Died Of Wounds”

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• Where was I?""A different island," said old Tallow. Her voice was stern, but there was an ache in her look that Omakayas had never before seen. "An island called Spirit Island where everyone but you died of the itching sickness- you were the toughest one, the littlest one, and you survived them all.""You were sent here so you could save the others," she said. "Because you'd had the sickness, you were strong enough to nurse them through it. They did a good thing when they took you in, and you saved them for their good act. Now the circle that began when I found you is complete.

  Louise Erdrich

  Strong, Islands, Circles

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• Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than to peek into the delivery room when the light was on. From the dormitory, they could hear Dr. Larch's reading voice. Although Candy held tightly to his hand, Homer was inclined to hurry - in order not to miss the bedtime story.

  John Irving

  Reading, Light, Hands

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• It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet has become a lifesaver for me. My ability to think and write have not been affected. And on the Web, my real voice finds expression.

  Roger Ebert

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  "Remaking my voice". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• After my divorce, I was struggling to find my own voice. Through reading, I gained my power back.

  Halle Berry

  Struggle, Reading, Divorce

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• Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.

  Lech Walesa

  Fire, Burning, Want

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• Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique.

  Willa Cather

  Unique, Mind, Quality

  1936 Not Under Forty, 'Miss Jewett'.

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