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"I'm weary of my lonely but And of its blasted tree, The very lake is like my lot, So silent constantly-- I've liv'd amid the forest gloom Until I almost fear-- When will the thrilling voices come My spirit thirsts to hear?"
"She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom."
"What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything."
"Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds."
"In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices"
"The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?"
"The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true."
"The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the Kurdish people."
"Her voice is thin and her moan is high, And her cackling laugh or her barking cold Bring terror to the young and old. O Molly, Molly, Molly Means Lean is the ghost of Molly Means."
"Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night."
"Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty."
"Music is love in search of a voice."
"The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!"
"Somehow, somewhere, I know that God loves me, even though I do not feel that love as I can feel a human embrace, even though I do not hear a voice as I hear human words...God is greater than my senses, greater than my thoughts, greater than my heart. I do believe that He touches me in places that are unknown even to myself."
"I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press."
"The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever."
"One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found."
"It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known."
"Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it."
"I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying."
