Loud Voices Quotes:

A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.

- Barry Neil Kaufman

source: Barry Neil Kaufman (1996). “Out-smarting Your Karma: And Other Preordained Conditions”, Option Institute

topic: Communication, Loud Voices, Self Improvement

Silence is a lie. Silence has a loud voice. It shouts, "Nothing important is happening - don't worry." So when something important IS going on, silence is a lie."

- A. M. Rosenthal

topic: Lying, Loud Voices, Worry

What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs.

- Jean de la Bruyere

topic: Powerful, Loud Voices, Long

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, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

source: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau: With the Reveries of the Solitary Walker. Translated from the French”, p.1

topic: Book, Loud Voices, Hands

An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: "Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink."

- Christopher Columbus

source: "Journal of the First Voyage". Book by Bartolomé de Las Casas. Entry for October 13, 1492,

topic: Men, Loud Voices, Sky

Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Thoughtful, Thinking, Loud Voices

The first time I felt I was famous was when I went to the movies with my mom. I had gone to the loo, and someone in the bathroom said in a very loud voice, Girl in stall No. 1 were you in Mystic Pizza? I paused and I said, yeah that was me.

- Julia Roberts

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. August 2, 1999.

topic: Girl, Mom, Loud Voices

There should be more on television that uplifts people and shows them how to better prepare themselves for earning a living. There still aren't enough people that say "this should not be." We just let it go. We need to raise a loud voice about our fellow human beings.

- Bill Cosby

source: Source: www.christianpost.com

topic: Uplifting, Loud Voices, People, Just Let It Go

As loud voices argue on, let us remember that those who advocate abortion have already been born!

- Russell M. Nelson

topic: Loud Voices, Abortion, Arguing

Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.

- Saadi

source: Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.160, Innovations and Information

topic: Loud Voices, Doors, House

If anybody could put themselves in that situation of feeling a giant loud voice saying you don't deserve the same rights, you are different and you are not equal, it feels really bad.

- Ellen DeGeneres

source: "Dancing with DeGeneres". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. November 21, 2008.

topic: Loud Voices, Rights, Feelings

Glee is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.

- Jack Antonoff

source: "fun. Interview with Jack Antonoff". Interview with Courtney Kenefick, www.seventeen.com. March 6, 2012.

topic: Gay, Loud Voices, People, Really Positive, Gay Community

actions speak louder than words

- Becca Fitzpatrick

source: Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom, Broken Promises, Influencing People

A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.

- Gloria Naylor

topic: Voice, Silence, Lasts, Loud Voices

I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.

- Carol Burnett

source: "Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character". PBS Interveiw, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2008.

topic: Voice, Goofy, Loud, Loud Voices

I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.

- Catherine the Great

topic: Voice, Rewards, Praise, Loud Voices

In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps unheard by and unknown to others - is the loudest cry that can penetrate Heaven

- Chiara Lubich

topic: Voice, Heaven, Suffering, Loud Voices

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.

- Betty Buckley

topic: Girl, Voice, Purpose, Loud Voices

Around us there is the presence of evil. The devil is at work. But in a loud voice I say: GOD IS STRONGER.

- Pope Francis

topic: Voice, Evil, Stronger, Loud Voices

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

- Susan Rice

source: "Susan Rice, limousine liberals and America’s Syria policy" By Lori Handrahan, www.foxnews.com. July 6, 2012.

topic: Voice, Action, Silent, Loud Voices

A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.

- Anya Seton

topic: Inspirational, Voice, Skins, Thick Skin, Loud Voices

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

- Billy Joel

source: Twitter post from Sep 27, 2011

topic: Heart, Voice, Musician, Quiet Heart, Pianist

All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. But we can give it to them only through the love that listens.

- Paul Tillich

source: Paul Tillich (1954). “Love, Power, and Justice: Ontological Analyses and Ethical Applications”, p.84, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Love, Voice, Giving, Loud Voices

As the LSD began to take effect, I suddenly said in a very loud voice, while pounding on top of a file, “Every psychiatrist, every psychoanalyst should be forced to take LSD in order to know what is over here.”

- John C. Lilly

topic: Order, Voice, Lsd, Loud Voices

The Great Spirit is everywhere; he hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.

- Black Elk

topic: Heart, Voice, Mind, Loud Voices

If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple.

- Russell Simmons

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Rap, Writing, Simple, Loud Voices

So your strength is failing you? Why don't you tell your mother about it? ... Mother! Call her with a loud voice. She is listening to you; she sees you in danger, perhaps, and she-your holy mother Mary-offers you, along with the grace of her son, the refuge of her arms, the tenderness of her embrace ... and you will find yourself with added strength for the new battle.

- Josemaria Escriva

topic: Christian, Mother, Son, Mother Mary, Loud Voices

But what I would like to say is that the spiritual life is a life in which you gradually learn to listen to a voice that says something else, that says, "You are the beloved and on you my favour rests."... I want you to hear that voice. It is not a very loud voice because it is an intimate voice. It comes from a very deep place. It is soft and gentle. I want you to gradually hear that voice. We both have to hear that voice and to claim for ourselves that that voice speaks the truth, our truth. It tells us who we are.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Christian, Spiritual, Voice, Loud Voices

All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.

- William S. Burroughs

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Honesty, Pain, Voice, Blind Spots, Bovine

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the dignity that accompanies it, how much a free man feels like a king, the perpetual inner light that is produced by decorous self-awareness and realization, perhaps there would be no greater friends of freedom than those who are its worst enemies.

- Jose Marti

topic: Kings, Men, Light, Loud Voices

The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had no voice in being carried into the South, but he will have a very loud voice in any attempt to put him out.

- Timothy Thomas Fortune

source: Timothy Thomas Fortune, Seth Moglen (2007). “Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South”, Simon and Schuster

topic: Men, Voice, Driven, Loud Voices

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

- Stephen King

topic: Writing, Voice, Stories, Loud Voices

I look back with gladness to the day when I found the path to the land of heart's desire, and thank Fate ceaselessly with a loud voice that she did not permit the town to sap all the years away while the heart was turning to wind-voices and flower-faces and the hands of kindly earth.

- Marion Dudley Cran

topic: Flower, Heart, Fate, Loud Voices

I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

- George Lucas

topic: Education, Teacher, Teaching, Loud Voices

Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality - it's just a different morality than the loud voices of the Christian morality.... I can't tell you how many films I've turned down because there was an absence of morality. And I don't mean that from any sort of Judeo-Christian-Muslim point of view. I'm not saying they're wrong and can't be made. But, fundamentally, I'm such a humanist that I can't bear to make films that make us feel humanity is more dark than it is light.

- Rachel Griffiths

topic: Christian, Strong, Buddhist, Very Strong, Christian Morality

There is surely no more unselfish person than the anthologist. For while all we others are striving to ensure our own immortality with eagerness, beguilements, buffooneries, loud voices, 'the sound of battle and garments rolled in blood,' the anthologist is quietly ensuring the immortality of somebody else.

- Mary Webb

topic: Blood, Voice, Battle, Loud Voices

late news was suicide of w:Jan Masaryk - In my view, Jan Masaryk was thoroughly corrupt, who bumped himself off because he saw at last where his moral cowardice and ideological 'Playboyery' had led him. I vividly remember visiting him in Washington, fat, slightly tight, coming into the room looking like a broken-down butler with his master, the little Communist, Clementis, [-] and saying in a loud voice -'Has anyone seen an Iron Curtain? I haven't.' Well, he has now.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

topic: Suicide, Views, Voice, Iron Curtain, Broken Down

... men... who say that there is no one in our times and in our midst who is able to keep the Gospel commandments and become like the holy Fathers? To them the Master rightly says with a loud voice, 'Woe to you scribes and Pharisees (Mt. 23:13)! Woe to you, blind guides of the blind (Mt. 23:16), because you do not enter into the kingdom, and you hinder those who wish to enter' (Mt. 23:13).

- Symeon the New Theologian

source: Saint Symeon (the New Theologian) (1980). “Symeon New Theologian”, p.312, Paulist Press

topic: Christian, Father, Men, Scribes, Pharisees