#voices

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#civil #civil society #international #nations #new

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

Always gotta keep busy or the voices start telling me to do wild things. ↗

— Steve Brown

#busy #gotta #keep #me #start

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent. ↗

— Robert Redford

#mechanism #new #started #sundance #talent

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego. ↗

— William Kennedy

#cry #ego #empty #literature #music

We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#before #believe #bridges #building #earth

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique. ↗

— Jane Rule

#artists #bearing #because #each #every

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#commands #condemning #day #got #know

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance. ↗

— Eric Sevareid

#after #constant #grasped #i #never

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power. ↗

— Erika Slezak

#because #earth #hop #just #know