Voice Quotes
6428 Voice quotes by 3648 unique authors
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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices…
— Khalil Gibran
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Make time in your life to listen to your own voice. Do not let it get drowned out by others. Your voice is yours and…
— Maria Shriver
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Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach…
— George Eliot
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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.
— George Washington
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While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE...
— Jeremiah Denton
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Foreign policy always has more force and punch when the nation speaks with one voice. To remain secure, prosperous, and free, the United States must…
— Lee H. Hamilton
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History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus, and provide leadership, the American…
— Chuck Hagel
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I knew I had to have a hit. I would get no more chances. Analyzing what they had in common I discovered they had many…
— Neil Sedaka
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It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if…
— James Madison
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Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge,…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can…
— George Washington
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
— John Donne
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We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead…
— Herman Melville
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave…
— James A. Baldwin
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She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life…
— James A. Baldwin
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The last song was so deep and raw and pure that I could not escape. It was as if the people were singing in between…
— Anne Lamott
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I can't write from the subconscious actually, because a lot of the time when I co-write with other people, I'm writing for them as opposed…
— Unknown Author
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There really are two different schools of songwriting-American and Canadian. It's interesting. You guys have this history of guys like Paul Williams and Jimmy Webb,…
— Fred Eaglesmith
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All songs are living ghosts. And long for a living voice
— Brendan Kennelly
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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
— Carly Simon
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When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get…
— Lauryn Hill
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I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of voices and songs…
— Hanif Kureishi
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During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board…
— Kate Millett
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