Witness Quotes - Page 21

• We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment of self-government by India as soon as hostilities are over. I repeat that that is beyond doubt.

  Stafford Cripps

  Opportunity, Government, Self

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• When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries.

  Kirstie Alley

  Loss, Weight, Week

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• I am an expert witness because I say I am.

  Don Henley

  Experts, Egotism

  Song: The Garden of Allah

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• In TV, kid roles are like this: You're either in a couple minutes of an episode playing somebody's kid, or you get in these procedurals where you're crying or you're playing a witness or you're playing a crazy person. Every once in a while you get a big guest star role, but there's a formula to those TV shows.

  Kyle Gallner

  Stars, Couple, Crazy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

  Adam Hamilton

  Jesus, Sick, Vision

  "The Bible and Congressman Broun" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2012.

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• I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Risk, Celebration, Kind

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• The world is like a courtroom, with God as our judge. We are called upon to fulfill our covenant with God, who asked, "Am I not your Lord?" To which we answered, "Yea." And since here on earth we are on trial, our every word and action form the witness to and the evidence of that agreement.

  Rumi

  Covenant With God, Agreement, Judging

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• It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

  H. G. Wells

  Historical, Facts, Palestine

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• The main difference is, in 'Cold Case,' the victim sometimes had been dead for decades - you didn't have the advantage of being able to interview the victim. You had to piece together the circumstances surrounding the crime from witnesses and other evidence. 'SVU' is much more immediate in that you can talk to the victim.

  Danny Pino

  Differences, Together, Able

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• I always tell myself that when you're playing a character, pretend they're on trial and you're giving the best witness of their life. You really need to think about every element of the character and represent them properly, as if they were a real person. You want to give 100 percent of what they're worth and what they deserve as people.

  Pauley Perrette

  Real, Character, Thinking

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• There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.

  Zoe Saldana

  Long, Skins, Trying

  "Exclusive: Star Trek's Zoe Saldana Wears Men's Underwear" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. April 24, 2009.

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• I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.

  Francis Walsingham

  Men, Done, Bears

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• The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.

  Janet McTeer

  Order

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I know there are different kinds of actors, but I tend to have less effective relationships with actors who have a very private process - who really need to do lots of internal work, so that I become merely a witness until they're ready to share.

  Joe Mantello

  Different, Needs, Actors

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• In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Memories, Two, Imagination

  "Touched with fire" by Angela Lambert, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2002.

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• The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Tanks, World

  "N.T. Wright: On Jesus and Writing". Interview with Marcia Z. Nelson, www.publishersweekly.com. November 23, 2011.

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• The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists.

  Ernst Zundel

  Judging, Lobbyists, Sitting

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• Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should not intermeddle with the particular dogmas in which all religions differ, and which are totally unconnected with morality.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Reading, Reflection, Bears

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.281, Cambridge University Press

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• I have not been the witness I wanted to be.

  Joan Didion

  Wanted

  Joan Didion (2011). “A Book of Common Prayer”, p.272, Vintage

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• When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Heads Or Tails, People, Going Away

  "Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Diary entry of Tuesday, 30 January, 1938.

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• May the Santo Niño continue to bless the Philippines and may he sustain the Christians of this great nation in their vocation to be witnesses and missionaries of the joy of the Gospel, in Asia and in the whole world.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Joy, World

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• I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magisterial use of reason occurs when reason stands over and above the gospel like a magistrate and judges it on the basis of argument and evidence. The ministerial use of reason occurs when reason submits to and serves the gospel…. Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Thinking, Judging

  "Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics". Book by William Lane Craig, p. 36, 1994.

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• When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dimensions, Consciousness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.19, New World Library

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• The Church, wherever it is, is not only Christ's witness to its own people and nation, but also the home-base for a mission to the ends of the earth.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Home, People, Church

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• Sometimes it's interesting to see something that you're not used to seeing, which is the main ingredient of life, and it's removed from the usual entertainment. I think it's important to give the opportunity to people to witness the life of somebody who was not public.

  Michel Gondry

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

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