Quotes about Voice
There is a silence. But sometimes it's as dangerous not to speak.
- Margaret Atwood
They say: Speak for us (to whom?) Some say: Avenge us (on whom?) Some say: Take our place. Some say: Witness Others say (and these are women) Be happy for us.
- Margaret Atwood
He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncle — that should be his tone.
- Margaret Atwood
A faithless preacher with a good manner and voice will always convert more than a limp-handed long-faced fool, no matter how Godly.
- Margaret Atwood
It takes deliberate and continuous effort to carve out time in our overfull schedules to listen to the voice of God.
- Sheila Walsh
We aren't allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think.
- Anne Frank
You can't forbid someone to have an opinion, no matter how young they are!
- Anne Frank
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.
- Anne Lamott
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.
- Mark Twain
Cease, stranger, cease those witching notes, The art of syren choirs; Hush the seductive voice that floats Across the trembling wires. Music's ethereal power was given Not to dissolve our clay, But draw Promethean beams from heaven To purge the dross away.
- John Henry Newman
Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blest, beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed.
- John Mason Neale
Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.
- Audre Lorde