#voices

In nations where the voices of intolerance are most visible and momentarily powerful, it is in our long run interests to remain firm in our clear articulation that the use of violence in response to speech is to be condemned. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#clear #condemned #firm #interests #intolerance

The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#closing #command #could #desperately #him

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say? ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#hear #more #people #say #than

I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry. ↗

— Matt Dillon

#hearing #i #my own #only #other

Time has a way of stripping everything that is apparent about a thing away, leaving the Perception of a thing unrecognizable. But in the process, Time bares the true essence and beauty of the thing. ↗

— Vivian Marie Feggans

#women-writers #beauty

The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth. ↗

— Benjamin Whichcote

#longest #lungs #measures #most #strongest

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#being #create #hear #i #knack

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#coming #concerning #contemporary #diverse #evolve

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#faithfully #hear #listen #more #outside

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#bother #calling #hear #life #middle