| "A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper." »Barry Neil Kaufman |
| "We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice-that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'" »Sydney Harris |
| "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." »Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| "The voice of the people is the voice of God." »Alcuin |
| "Our American past always speaks to us with two voices the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him Citizens ask, What do they mean to us Historians are trained to seek the original meaning all of us want to know the present meaning." »Daniel J. Boorstin |
| "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking." »H.L. Mencken |
| "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice." »Anonymous |
| "The Soul is the voice of the body's interests." »George Santayana |
| "The Negro says, 'Now.' Others say, 'Never.' The voice of responsible Americans ... says, 'Together.' There is no other way." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "Three things you can be judged by your voice, your face, and your disposition." »Ignas Bernstein |
| "Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave." »John Ruskin |
| "To be positive To be mistaken at the top of one's voice." »Ambrose Bierce |
| "If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done." »Peter Ustinov |
| "Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving." »Penn Jillette |
| "Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world." »Giuseppe Mazzini |
| "'I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice 'Only today I happen to have a headache.'" »Mae West |
| "There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger." »Saul Bellow |
| "We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar." »Edward R. Murrow |
| "You have all the characteristics of a popular politician a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner." »Aristophanes |
| "Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'" »Carl Gustav Jung |
| "Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning." »Bertha Flowers |
| "When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "'A merry Christmas, uncle God save you' cried a cheerful voice. 'Bah' said Scrooge. 'Humbug'" »Charles Dickens |
| "Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph." »Haile Selassie |
| "If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes." »Mickey Spillane |
| "No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk-handsome, twentytwoyearold." »Vladimir Mayakovsky |
| "Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it." »James Truslow Adams |
| "Human beings are full of emotion, and the teacher who knows how to use it will have dedicated learners. It means sending dominant signals instead of submissive ones with your eyes, body and voice." »Leon Lessinger |
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