#voice

A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists. Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#chorus #choruses #cooperation #free #free-speech

We spend our lives asking the question, ‘What do people want me to do? Who do they want me to be?’ But this is a betrayal of our inner truth. We should be investing our lives in the pursuit of discovering who we are and what we were created to do. ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#be-true-to-yourself #follow-your-heart #inner-voice #inspiration #motivation

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness. ↗

— Alcuin

#close #crowd #god #keep #listened

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#deeper meaning #down #human #human voice #infuse

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. ↗

— Aharon Appelfeld

#civilization #his #individuality #narrow-minded #situation

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection. ↗

— Bea Arthur

#estate #gifts #important #important thing #lasting

Maybe I have just a younger voice than many other directors. ↗

— Michael Bay

#i #just #many #maybe #other

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am? ↗

— Annette Bening

#am #around #authentic #find #get

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#feel #increased #lost #miseries #now

It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did. ↗

— Wes Borland

#find #happy #i #long #long time