"There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river."
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"The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles."
"It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it."
"Donald Trump is brash and loud and courts a lot of media attention."
"The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness."
"As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget."
"Oh, and just so you know, before we go out to the field we all get into a huddle and yell 'Go Queers!' really loud."
"But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous."
"I'm not going to be murdered," Harry said out loud. "That's the spirit, dear," said his mirror sleepily."
"Loud threats often indicate deep fears"
"He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times."
"The biggest misconception is that sometimes activists have to be loud and are radical to get their message across."
"My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud."
"I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf."
"You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing."
"Pride is never so loud as when in chains."