Top 52 Speak To Be Heard Quotes
#2. During the days that followed our return, we were all, I think, seized by a veritable delirium. We wished to speak, to be heard at last. And yet, it was impossible. We had hardly begun to speak and we were choking.
Robert Antelme
#3. He began to speak to me, not in the jocular way of visitors to the menagerie but rather as one speaks to the wind or to the waves crashing on a beach, uttering that which must be said but which must not be heard by anyone.
Daniel Quinn
#4. Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#5. It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.
Karen Marie Moning
#6. Whom do we speak to, and how do we encode our messages? How can we be heard or read, even after we are dead?
Ander Monson
#7. And when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive
Audre Lorde
#8. My playing had called to another human being at last. Surely, she could be no other than my own true love.
Slowly, I got to my feet.
Speak to me, I thought.
And as if she'd heard me, the young woman's lips parted and she spoke thus:
Have you lost your mind?
Cameron Dokey
#9. In order to be heard by the oppressing class, one must speak as a member of it. Not only the language, but the diction. The accusation of tyranny, however well-founded in fact, is dismissed unless it is delivered in the manner that power recognizes as powerful.
James S.A. Corey
#10. The law speaks too softly to be heard amidst the din of arms.
Gaius Marius
#11. If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.
M. Scott Peck
#12. I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.
Shakira
#14. Being safe is about being seen and heard and allowed to be who you are and to speak your truth.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#15. Suicide is unspeakable, and to speak it is somehow to bring it into a human, imaginable sphere, even if only in the moment of speaking. The need to tell is both a need to tell oneself and a need to be heard ... Telling and being heard are the first steps toward reconnection.
Victoria Alexander
#16. As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
Bernard Berenson
#17. It's said that actions speak louder than words," he went on, "but we still need words. We need to speak and we need to be heard.
Sylvia Day
#18. I would like to stay like this, lazy, warm, in the silence where only our regular breathing can be heard, without ever having to make gestures, speak words which sell us out and betray us; this moment is real and alive, I stretch it into eternity...
Albertine Sarrazin
#19. It is true that a writer writes first to please himself and that his own satisfaction with what he has done is perhaps his greatest satisfaction. But writing is a means of communication. It is not enough to speak; you must also be heard. The message must be received and understood.
Christopher Milne
#20. If you achieve a voice that will be heard, you should use it to speak up for the voiceless and oppressed. If you possess any power or authority, you must strive to use it to help and empower the powerless.
Craig Murray
#21. Isaiah 55:6-13 God's ways and thoughts are infinitely higher than those of the most brilliant human. Yet His words in Scripture communicate well enough to bring about supernatural change in those who hear its truth. The purpose of communication is not to speak, but to be heard and understood.
Sid Buzzell
#22. Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.
Wes Fesler
#23. When you want your message to be heard, always speak from your heart.
Molly Friedenfeld
#24. to speak to her. He was interested in his roses (which, she heard afterward, were to be sent to town to an invalid friend),
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#25. He is heard only when we hope to hear Him, and if, thinking our hope to be fulfilled, we cease to speak, His silence ceases to be vivid and becomes dead, even though we recharge it with the echo of our own emotional noise.
Thomas Merton
#26. There's such a stigma around girls' periods, and women's sexuality - girls can't speak out for themselves or be who they want to be. I think that coming from the social platform that I have, I try to be a positive influence, and this was something that I felt needed to be seen and heard.
Chloe Grace Moretz
#27. If you want your voice to be heard, speak from your heart.
Wes Fesler
#28. For every Aruna story we hear there are hundreds of thousands that will never be heard, swept under the great rug of shame societies have so eloquently woven. It is up to us to speak up, to lift this heavy rug and reveal the ugliness it conceals.
Aysha Taryam
#29. Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such conviction that those to whom we speak shall know of the strength of our feeling and the sincerity of our efforts.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#30. I'm a veteran, and I've earned the right to be heard. I'll lead by example and show that gay players are no different from straight ones. I'm not the loudest person in the room, but I'll speak up when something isn't right. And try to make everyone laugh.
Jason Collins
#31. If you are given only one opportunity to speak, be certain your voice is heard.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#32. It's not enough to listen to their words. You have to mine their silences for buried ore. It's often only in the lies that we refuse to speak that truth can be heard at all.
Karen Marie Moning
#33. If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.
Criss Jami
#35. If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.
Amy Poehler
#36. So here I stand, one girl among many. I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.
Malala Yousafzai
#37. If you want to be seen, stand up.
If you want to be heard, speak up.
If you want to be appreciated, shut up.
Bill Cosby
#38. Table talk, to be perfect, should be sincere without bigotry, differing without discord, sometimes grave, always agreeable, touching on deep points, dwelling most on seasonable ones, and letting everybody speak and be heard.
Leigh Hunt
#39. Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their silent cry of agony and let us all help that cry to be heard in the world.
Rukmini Devi Arundale
#40. Lips to lips, mouth to mouth, Comes the speaker of the shrouds, Suck in the spirit, speak the words, Let secrets of the dead be heard.
Yasmine Galenorn
#42. When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
Audre Lorde
#43. I don't speak just so I can be heard; I speak only when I find it absolutely necessary to do so.
Elizabeth Johnson
#44. I've been extremely fortunate in that my career allows me to be seen and heard by people all over the world and I know that my only option is to utilize this gift to speak for those who may not have the means, courage, or strength to speak out.
Sufe Bradshaw
#45. If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.
Peter Welch
#46. Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life."
"I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.
Jane Austen
#47. The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard
Henry David Thoreau
#48. Both love and democracy depend on voice
having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.
Carol Gilligan
#49. Speak life. Let your voice be heard around the globe. Speak into existence prosperity, peace, love, happiness. Allow yours words to transcend throughout space and time.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#50. Don't Expect Others To Read Or Hear your Thoughts.If You Want To Be Heard, Speak Up!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#51. Your heart always knows what's important. It always knows how to guide you. It's pure, and trustworthy
though it will never shout to be heard. it will never speak above a whisper. But if you learn how to heed it, how to hear it, you will never feel lost in the world.
Alyson Noel
#52. Yell to be heard and no one will listen, speak in whispers and all will strain to hear.
Marina
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