Voice Quotes - Page 24

• Learn the richness of solitude & quiet. That still small voice is yearning to be heard.

  Susan Jeffers

  Meditation, Solitude, Quiet

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• There is nothing as relaxing as being out on the open sea, listening to the waves and the wind and the sails and voices downstairs yelling "HOW DO YOU FLUSH THESE TOILETS?"

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Yelling, Wind

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.90, Crown Archetype

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• My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

  Beverly Sills

  Careers, Long, Bed

  "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women". Book by Rosalie Maggio, 1992.

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• Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Stories, Success In Life

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story”, Simon and Schuster

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• . . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; . . .

  Marsilio Ficino

  Writing, Men, Feet

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• This pen is my only outlet, my only voice, because I have no one else to speak to, no mind but my own to drown in and all the lifeboats are taken and all the life preservers are broken and I don't know how to swim I can't swim I can't swim and it's getting so hard. It's getting so hard. It's like there are a million screams caught inside of my chest but I have to keep them all in because what's the point of screaming if you'll never be heard and no one will ever hear me in here. No one will ever hear me again.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Taken, Broken, Swim

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• I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.

  Catherine McCormack

  Tired, Listening, Lasts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic.

  Will Friedle

  Games, Fans, Video

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• In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Years, Data, Games

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• Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Boss, Owners, Wells

  "Diva Cecilia Bartoli". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. November 9, 1998.

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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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• Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

  Alcuin

  People, Vox Populi, Crowds

  Letter 164 in 'Works' (1863) vol. 1, p. 438

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• Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy.

  St. Jerome

  Christian, Boys, Men

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• Your demons are always with you, Skale answered. His voice seemed even raspier than the day before. Don't you understand that by now? Always with you, impossible to escape. But you never can guess how they might manifest themselves.

  James Dashner

  Life, Might, Impossible

  James Dashner (2013). “Mortality Doctrine: The Eye of Minds”, p.230, Random House

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• The NBA has a voice that's why they have a lockout. The NFL has a voice that's why they had a lockout. Boxing is the only sport that's individually represented the individual people - Managers, Promoters and Boxers.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Sports, Motivation, Nba

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• All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Mean, Fate, Echoes

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• When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Lying, Passionate, Gloves

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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