| "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 |
| "Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance." »Unknown |
| "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 |
| "The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination." »J. R. R. Tolkien |
| "Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all." »Matthew Arnold |
| "So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinite in all directions, not only above us in the large but also below us in the small." »Emil Wiechert |
| "The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." »Napolean Hill |
| "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 Negro says, 'Now.' Others say, 'Never.' The voice of responsible Americans ... says, 'Together.' There is no other way." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "The Soul is the voice of the body's interests." »George Santayana |
| "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 |
| "To be positive To be mistaken at the top of one's voice." »Ambrose Bierce |
| "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 |
| "Three things you can be judged by your voice, your face, and your disposition." »Ignas Bernstein |
| "Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world." »Giuseppe Mazzini |
| "Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving." »Penn Jillette |
| "'I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice 'Only today I happen to have a headache.'" »Mae West |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "You have all the characteristics of a popular politician a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner." »Aristophanes |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
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