Your Voice Is Heard Quotes

#1. If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. If you are given only one opportunity to speak, be certain your voice is heard.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#3. Surely she'd heard voices like his, so low-pitched as to make every commonplace utterance seem of the deepest intimacy, every cliche a delicious secret.

Loretta Chase

#4. I heard an older, softer male voice say. I knew that voice had a name attached to it - Yoda? No, Yoda was from Star Wars. Star Wars was on my mind because of R2-D2.

Neal Stephenson

#5. The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is heard.

Alain LeRoy Locke

#6. 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

#7. I think it is important the communities are listened to and that their voice is heard, particularly with local government boundaries more than parliamentary boundaries, because you are talking very much about communities. It can be a very emotive thing.

Nicola Sturgeon

#8. Michael," he heard her say, her voice soft. "Please look at me and let me show you what love is.

Madeline Sheehan

#9. In the spring when the wind is in the new leaves the echo of her voice may still be heard by the fall that bear her name.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. She heard the very beginning of a smile in his voice
a fetal smile
and it very nearly killed her.

Rainbow Rowell

#11. On this show, your voice will be heard - in the form of my voice.

Stephen Colbert

#12. With Scarlett Johansson, I always thought she was pretty, but then when I heard her sing, there was just something about her voice that made her really, really attractive to me. And I think she would be fun to hang out with.

Cameron Monaghan

#13. Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.

Terry Tempest Williams

#14. Howard Dean dropped out of the race today. At least he can't claim his voice wasn't heard.

Jay Leno

#15. Tears began to surge up into her eyes, and she found herself doubling up her fists, with the thumbs inside, as she had done as a child; she felt her jaw wobble, and when she spoke her voice could hardly be heard.

Philip K. Dick

#16. Oh all the times I've listened, and all the times I've heard All the melodies I'm missing, and all the magic words, And all those potent voices, and the choices we had then, How I'd love to find we had that kind of choice again.

Harry Chapin

#17. {29:4} You will be brought low. You will speak from the ground, and your eloquence will be heard from the dirt. And, from the ground, your voice will be like that of the python, and your eloquence

The Biblescript

#18. Then I heard a voice: "Until you learn to be grateful for the things you have," it said, "you will not receive the things you want.

John Kralik

#19. People must be able to use their voice, tell their stories, have their experiences recognized and their voices heard.

Patricia Leavy

#20. In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

John Grisham

#21. I used to go into rooms of older executives and try to pitch talk show ideas and when I was writing as a journalist I would pitch ideas for my articles and I definitely understand that excitement of a pitch and what that is to be young and a woman and trying to make your voice heard.

Lily Collins

#22. They never spoke out, so they were never heard. Your voice is your identity. If

Rick Riordan

#23. You heard what the little filth said to me," Ury growled. "He'll be trouble. I say trench him now."

The other man spoke, his voice low and even. "I heard him, Ury. His mind is quick, and his Greek is good." He knelt down beside my head. "Your choice, boy. Decide now.

Patrick Bowman

#24. The point is to raise your voice and be heard to God. You really are just celebrating being in the presence of other people that believe the same things you believe.

Valerie June

#25. Bob," I asked. "What is all my stuff doing here?" "Oh," Bob said. "That. Well. Bianca got the idea, somewhere, that your stuff might explode if anyone messed around with it." I heard the wryness in my voice, though I didn't feel it. "She did, did she." "I can't imagine how." "I'm doubling your pay.

Jim Butcher

#26. An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try.

Joanne Woodward

#27. Some believe to be spiritual, is to be always loving and shit ...
Being spiritual is taking no shit, by believing that your voice deserves to be heard if the deed is not satisfying your soul.

Nikki Rowe

#28. You will always be a puppet on someone else's line if you don't care enough about the big picture to let your tiny voice be heard. When it is combined with the tiny voices of millions of others that is the real power.

Kenneth Eade

#29. Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail.

Saint Augustine

#30. YOU SHOULD KILL THEM. Vin looked up as she heard a pair of guards pass the door to her cell. There was one good thing about Ruin's voice - it tended to warn her when people were nearby, even if it did always tell her to kill them.

Brandon Sanderson

#31. True leadership is when you are willing to risk your power and voice so that all of ours can be heard.

Justin Timberlake

#32. Let your voice be heard, whether or not it is to the taste of every jack-in-office who may be obstructing the traffic. By all means, render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's - but this does not necessarily include everything that he says is his.

Denis Johnston

#33. Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#34. Many of the vagabonds found me. They despise the way the war is being handled. They see the way your agendas inhibit progress but had no way to let their voice be heard. I gave them a way.-Kara

S.M. Boyce

#35. New Yorkers your voices must be heard. Tell your state Congressmen to support same sex marriage bill. All you need is love

Madonna Ciccone

#36. No man is give leave of that voice. The kid spat into the fire and bent to his work. I aint heard no voice, he said. When it stops, said Tobin, you'll know you've heard it all your life.

Cormac McCarthy

#37. The biggest thing is to let your voice be heard, let your story be heard.

Dwyane Wade

#38. Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God ... [The heart] is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.

John Eldredge

#39. I heard my grandfathers voice. What do they think
the storms will never come? You build a house on the sand, the sand shifts eventually ... Remember that.

Lisa Wingate

#40. It took greater energy to be able to focus when heard
the voice of wisdom in a hustle bustle than in serenity.

Toba Beta

#41. I think that I am willing to do anything. I like to collaborate. If my voice will be heard, than I will do some research and think about it.

Skylar Astin

#42. The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#43. His voice had changed again. He liked this. He liked seeing her squirm. He was absorbing her fear like a succubus. Lydia heard an echo of the last words Paul Scott had ever spoken to her: Tell me you want this.

Karin Slaughter

#44. The voice without a body went on singing, and certainly Raoul had never in his life heard anything more absolutely and heroically sweet, more gloriously insidious, more powerful.

Gaston Leroux

#45. His eyes closed for a split second and he sank against Armand's shoulder, feeling Armand's hand on his back. Far away he heard Armand's voice: What do I do with you, my beloved? Especially now, when I myself am so afraid.

Anne Rice

#46. Brianna," I heard a sweet voice call to me from somewhere above the clouds. "Brianna Valente, this is your captain calling," came that sweet voice again.

Giselle Fox

#47. Women's voices aren't heard often enough. Congress should reflect the population, but with only 20 percent women in the Senate and 18 percent in the House, it just doesn't.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#48. Before I succumbed to the sweet lull of his voice, I made one last request. "Stay".
I was asleep before he could answer, but in my dreams I heard him reply forever.

S.L. Naeole

#49. I have always heard the sacred voice. Now I know it is the voice of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#50. What is your name?" I asked, voice hoarse.
"Alexandria," she repeated in a soft voice I'd never heard Alex use in real life.
"And who am I?"
"Aiden." She smiled, and I flinched. "You are my Master.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#51. I was reaching for one of the handles when I heard Heidler's voice from behind me. 'It would not be wise to enter. It is a bad time to disturb the dead.

Micheal Rivers

#52. The demons in my mind are far away, and there is only her sweet voice, singing a song I've never heard...

Ella James

#53. Part of what my music represents is to stand up and be the voice of those who feel like they are not heard and want to be treated with respect regardless of race, color, orientation - android, cyborg, whatever.

Janelle Monae

#54. The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.

Carol Gilligan

#55. I never heard any angel voice but yours.

Julie Berry

#56. A little light in the dark night
A faint voice is calling you
This way! This way!
This flickering, wavering little voice
Like dew, like a bonfire
The voice of insects
the sound of the water
You can never lose them
once you've heard them ...

Natsumi Mukai

#57. It was really weird when I heard my voice coming out of a fish.

Alexander Gould

#58. I'm definitely happier dancing in Germany; in the U.S., there's a different level of competition. I find in general that I try to get my voice heard about protecting women. It comes from everything I've been through personally - I'm opinionated, and that doesn't make it that easy.

Sarah Hay

#59. Whoa. I've never heard him sing, not even in the shower, ever. I frown. He has a lovely voice - of course. Hmm ... has he heard me sing?
He wouldn't be asking you to marry him if he had! My subconscious has her arms crossed and is wearing Burberry check ... jeez.

E.L. James

#60. Kate heard the bravado in her friend's voice and saw it in her eyes. "I prayed for you." "You did?" Tully asked. "Wow. Thanks." Kate didn't know what to say to that. To her, praying was like brushing your teeth before bed, just something you did. Tully

Kristin Hannah

#61. No," he heard a voice on the wind say. "If I had told you, you wouldn't have seen the Pyramids. They're beautiful, aren't they?

Paulo Coelho

#62. And if you have found your voice, you can be heard

Jeanette Winterson

#63. I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old.

Caroline Norton

#64. It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.

Keith Jarrett

#65. It was defiantly the most gorgeous voice i'd ever heard. It belonged to The rudest Most Despicable Boy I've Ever Met.

Diane Messidoro

#66. Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

Steve Earle

#67. It was a voice she had heard before, deep and raspy. It made her bones crack and splinter, made her feel the astonishing cold of a winter long since passed.

Sarah J. Maas

#68. I am very timid about speaking for the collective. I can say what I see, I can say what I've heard, I can say what I feel, but I can't speak for - no one can speak for - 10 million people, and it takes away something from them if you make yourself their voice.

Edwidge Danticat

#69. Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.

Paul Morabito

#70. I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot be heard.

Donatella Versace

#71. I told her yeah, but there was no skin on my voice and she heard the bones in my words like I did. And I knew.

Cath Crowley

#72. I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good.

Lil' Wayne

#73. We must help women in every society to have their voices heard.

Madeleine Albright

#74. I can feel you
staring at me," he said in the softest wake-up voice I'd ever heard. "I only
hope you're a girl and not one of the drunken guys.

Piper Shelly