Witness Quotes

My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

And even one life that bears witness to the truth of the prosperity law will quicken the consciousness of the whole community.

What an incredible witness it is to a lost and fearful society when the Christian acts like a child of God, living under the loving sovereignty of the Heavenly Father.

I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.

Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them.

The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.

Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes.

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.

As God is my witness, the more I deal with women, the more I like my cat.

Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

I think this generation can play a very important role. If we act now, this could be the first generation to witness universal education.

It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.

I revere the fullness of His Scripture, in which He manifests to me both the Creator and creation. In the gospel moreover, I discover a Minister and Witness of the Creator, even His Word.

Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.

When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.

These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history.

When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

The end of foreign occupation is one of the pre-requisites if we are to witness any progress in our efforts to help Iraq go forward.

There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy failure.

A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a sort of witness to what is going on in our organisms.

Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.

There are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place. This is one of those moments. This is one of those times.

I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history.

When we go... to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves.

We are flattered to witness the response generated by the beta program and are working towards accommodating all pending sign up requests as soon as we launch live.

I'm angry at what's happening to America and angry with myself that I can't do more. I would be miserable if I couldn't bear witness.

Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is watching, and His angels are interested spectators too.

Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses who would have had their throats slit.

A hero is someone who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it.

Dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith.

Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.

Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.

I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about.

We need to be willing to witness ourselves in all the shades of our humanness, and to come into the heart space daily and just hold ourselves with love and compassion.

We can witness it, but we stay in a space within ourself that is connected to a more authentic part of ourselves. That is what the warning is about.

Just witness yourself with your human part and hold yourself with love, if you can, or at least acceptance.

History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.

Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.

I was very thrilled to witness the workby my ol' buddy Jim Widner whose expertise in the field of jazz education proved invaluable in putting this masterful CD (Yesterdays & Today) together.

Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness.