A Quote by Fareed Zakaria

It's really difficult to have your voice heard and feared when you both speak softly and carry a twig.

Fareed Zakaria

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Fareed Zakaria
American - Journalist
Born: January 20, 1964

Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

Gerald R. Ford

Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.

Carol Gilligan

I really believe that actually Ahmadinejad undermines Iran far more than he enhances Iran's status. And I think we have to go back to what FDR said, you know, speak softly and carry a big stick. I think Iran under Ahmadinejad, they speak loudly and carry a small stick.

Karim Sadjadpour

My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Everyone's the anti-Teddy Roosevelt. Speak loudly and carry a brittle twig.

Alec Sulkin

There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.

Banksy

To make your voice heard is difficult. Sometimes we have to burn ourselves in order to be heard. It is out of compassion that you do that. It is the act of love and not of despair.

Nhat Hanh

I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night. I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to meet his eye.

Charlotte Bronte

Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

Isaac Watts

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Bella Abzug

If you want your voice to be heard, speak from your heart.

Wes Fesler

If you are given only one opportunity to speak, be certain your voice is heard.

Elizabeth Gilbert

At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just helps with your speaking voice also, when you connect your diaphragm and your breath.

Wendell Pierce

I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years ago in her groundbreaking book. Because if we try to speak in a voice that isn't ours, we lose our power.

Elizabeth Lesser

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