Witness Quotes

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Mind, Passion

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Two, Lovers, Gods

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
William Blake

God, Same, Against

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Before, Perfect, Whole

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson

Life, Love, God

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
Sophocles

Powerful, Conscience, Within

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
John Ruskin

Help, Wish, Suffering

But - but the greatest way to witness is by walking that straight and narrow and also realizing that you're going to mess up. That's what grace is for. We're going to fall, but we've got to get back up. And you've got to improve. And that's what I'm all about.
Tim Tebow

Greatest, Grace, Fall

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.
George W. Bush

Time, Taking, Thank

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana

Mind, Body, Reward

His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.
Charles Stanley

Voice, Bold, Timid

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Here, Again

We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.
Marco Rubio

America, Another, American

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.
Whittaker Chambers

Life, Faith, Challenge

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.
Pat Robertson

Enjoy, Pretty, Nation

My witness is the empty sky.
Jack Kerouac

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.
Louis C. K.

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.
Robert Byrd

Men, Law, Nation

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
Doris Lessing

Religion, Bear, Examined

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.
Jim Garrison

Money, Travel, Lie

Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.
Lenny Kravitz

Living, Getting, Times

The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.
Kathy Griffin

Great, Anger, Job

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
Arthur Erickson

Art, Energy, Building

As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear.
Eliot Spitzer

Help, Tell, Everybody

In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.
J. C. Watts

Marriage, Good, God

When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.
Hesiod

Brother, Deal, Pleasant

Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.
Jonathan Kozol

Change, Done, Write

We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way.
Lewis Thomas

Nature, Good, Until

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
Harold Pinter

Great, War, Second

I'm an expert witness in a case that's in appeal about a guy who allegedly misappropriated source code from a major, major company - he actually worked there and then apparently they found it on his laptop later.
Kevin Mitnick

Actually, Found, Guy

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