Voice Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• 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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• 'It only put me in Gryffindor,' said Harry in a defeated voice, 'because I asked not to go in Slytherin...' 'Exactly' said Dumbledore, beaming once more. 'Which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.'

  J. K. Rowling

  Life Lesson, Choices, Different

  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ch. 18 (1999)

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• Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

  Carolyn Forche

  Soul, Singing, Whispering

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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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• 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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• 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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• I ask for a stonger and more devoted voice... a voice for good, a voice for the gospel, a voice for God.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Devoted, Asks

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• You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.

  Bruce Springsteen

  People, Listening, Use

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• After about three lessons [my] voice teacher said, "Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way. You're a song stylist. Always do it your way."

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Teacher, Three

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• As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

  Federico Fellini

  Good Man, Silhouettes, Directors

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• As I look back I know that most of the mistakes I have made have come when I didn't listen to myself, when I didn't trust my instincts... I believe you need to listen, carefully, to hear your inner voice. And then, you have to do what it says.

  Christine Todd Whitman

  Mistake, Believe, Needs

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• Writing is a voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out of the corner of our eyes when we think no one is looking, the longing that breaks our hearts even when we think we should be happiest, and to which we cannot give a name.

  Judy Collins

  Dream, Heart, Eye

  Judy Collins (2005). “Morning, Noon, and Night: Living the Creative Life”, p.30, Penguin

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• Whether your purpose for writing is artistic expression, communication with friends and family, the healing of the inner life, or achieving public recognition for your art - the foundation is the same: the claiming of yourself as an artist/writer and the strengthening of your writing voice through practice, study, and helpful response from other writers.

  Pat Schneider

  Art, Communication, Healing

  Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.22, Oxford University Press

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• There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The more open our inner senses, the more we understand the voice of everything.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Character, Secret, Doe

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• We can't win friends with a scowling face and an upbraiding voice.

  Dale Carnegie

  Winning, Faces, Can't Win

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• In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it, even though it has caused so much grief and havoc, and I think that is the only answer.

  Alice Walker

  Grief, Thinking, Answers

  "Alice Walker: 'I feel dedicated to the whole of humanity'". Interview With Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2013.

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• How many times... have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens inward. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Doors, Mind, Inward

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• The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.

  John Henry Newman

  Heart, Mean, Men

  John Henry Newman, Gerard Tracey (1999). “The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman: Tract 90 and the Jerusalem Bishopric, January 1841-April 1842”, p.555, Oxford University Press

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• Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire for rest, for friendship, for the sound of human voices? Could I now reclaim a single hour spent talking to my brother, Philip, and give it to Ken Daggart? Who made it our duty to accept, as the only reward for our work, the gray torture of pretending love for those who roused nothing but contempt?

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Giving Up, Talking

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• The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of the murderer in his own soul and hears the murderer's voice as his own, is at the next moment one and indivisible as the judge, and scuttles back into the shell of his cultivated self and does his duty and condemns the murderer to death.

  Hermann Hesse

  Self, Judging, Soul

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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