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“Often, particularly with voices, you're hearing horrible things, demon voices, and voices telling them that they're not worth it or that they're going to kill somebody. In those moments, they're overcoming things.”

Moments Voice Overcoming Hearing Horrible Demon Worth It Horrible Things Not Worth It

Author:Eric McCormack

“From behind the shadow of the still small voice — more awful than tempest or earthquake — more sure and persistent than day and night — is always sounding full of hope and strength to the weariest of us all, Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

World Stills Night Voice Behinds Shadow Overcoming Awful Cheer Persistent Earthquakes Day And Night Tempest Small Voice Good Cheer

Author:Thomas Hughes

“We are so hard on ourselves, it is unbelievable sometimes. The things we say to ourselves or think about when we look in the mirror are so cruel. We have to look at the power we do have and use it to overcome that voice of insecurity.”

Thinking Looks Sometimes Hard Use Voice Overcoming Mirrors Insecurity Unbelievable

Author:Erin Willett

“I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the capital, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors.”

I Can President Voice Female Overcoming Males Snow Strongest Rebel Pool Seventies Fifth Reminders Tribute Voices In My Head President Snow Fifth Anniversary

Book:Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

“Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish when I would rather speak Spanglish, and as long as I have to accommodate the English speakers rather than having them accommodate me, my tongue will be illegitimate. I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.”

Feels Writing Long Made Stills Speak Voice White Silence Poet Tradition Overcoming Tongue Indian Code Ashamed Speakers Translate Accommodate Serpent Speak English

Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“Jewish cantors employ a peculiar art and method of singing in their delivery. They are unexcelled in the art of covering the voice, picking up a new key, in the treatment of the ritual chant, and overcoming vocal difficulties that lie in the words rather than in the music.”

Art Lying Voice Keys Singing Overcoming Difficulty Method Treatment Ritual Peculiar Vocal Covering Delivery

Book:Enrico Caruso: My Father and My Family

Source: Enrico Caruso: My Father and My Family

“In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to call the attention of the people to the crime and outrage which are about to be perpetrated on them.”

People Men War Faces Voice Attention Crime Men And Women Overcoming Madness Raises Disaster Protest Outrage

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole effect is more expressive of spiritual grandeur than anything I could have imagined. It makes the impression upon one that thousands of voices do, uniting in one unanimous simultaneous feeling of enthusiasm or emotion, which is said to overcome the strongest man.”

Source: Florence Nightingale on Mysticism and Eastern Religions: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale