Be Heard Quotes

What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?

Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.

He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

I heard you good with them soft lips.. Yeah you know word of mouth.

Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.

I'm proud, and Islam did it. And after these things that I heard in church, a preacher and watching this and that, I knew something was wrong but I couldn't pinpoint it.

The soft mellow warble of the bluebird, heard at its best throughout spring and early summer, is one of the sweetest, most confiding and loving sounds in nature.

I've never heard an agency say, 'Unless you industrialize I will not support you.'

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

Some people put us down. But I still haven't heard of any Americans trying to swim across the border into Mexico!

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.

I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided.

I've had experiences where people say, 'I hated jazz before I heard you guys!' I'm like, 'You didn't hate jazz before you heard us, you hated the idea of jazz.'

Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.

So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.

I heard the voice of Jesus say

When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.

Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.

I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven

When I heard the words, I felt as if the blood had been frozen in my veins, and that my lungs must collapse for the want of air. Mr. Lincoln shot!

Talk about sexist - have you ever, ever, heard someone come up to a woman and say 'find your masculine side?' And by the way women, if you find your masculine side - I'm not interested.

If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.

Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.

They can see their neighbors. Roosters and dogs can be heard from there. Still, they will age and die without visiting one another.

To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of respect. It makes people feel valued.

Ric Flair was so big I heard about him. I've read his autobiography and all that. He's huge.

Who would have guessed that the shots heard 'round the world 225 years ago would fall on deaf ears in a nation now more sympathetic to the gun-grabbing Redcoat than the gun-bearing rebel?

I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.

I've heard that story about kids are high naturally, but I've seen kids that aren't high, kids who've had the high taken out of them.

The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I’ve heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.

Things seen are mightier than things heard.

I've heard about my size all my life. It makes you work that much harder. It's gratifying to prove them wrong.

When I became successful as a model in the United States, I knew that my chance to be heard had come and so I took it.

We can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.

I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of an American.

Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center of the meadow and dart into the woods.

...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.

If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.

You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

I heard recently that I used to date Patrick Swayze.