Witness Quotes - Page 25

• I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode. Interest in the land and concern about how we are polluting the air and water of the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic time-to witness the shaping of the earth before man.

  Maya Lin

  Cutting, Men, Land

  Quoted in Smithsonian Magazine, Aug. 1996

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• Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how different--and how awful--life is for those who live in North Korea. The devil is in the details here, for her gritty narrative focuses on everyday events to reveal how repression shapes daily life, even for the most privileged. Yet Kim also bears witness to that part of the human soul that no oppressor can ever claim.

  Carlos Eire

  Korea, Soul, Everyday

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• I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.

  Athol Fugard

  Thinking, Play, Events

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• When you talk about presidents, loyalty is a great thing until it becomes a bad thing. Witness once again Watergate.

  Monica Crowley

  Loyalty, President, Great Things

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• So this bloke says to me, "Can I come in your house and talk about your carpets?" I thought "That's all I need, a Je-hoover's witness".

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, House

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• A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the truth that she discovers is profoundly political.

  Dacia Maraini

  Political, Firsts, Telling The Truth

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• 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.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Writing, Different, Bearing Witness

  Interview with Christopher Adamson, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have to make to these climate changes, and so it's extremely important to bear witness to what's happening.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Important, Climate, Bears

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• There are landscapes and species that are not going to be here a hundred years from now, fifty years from now. One gift we as writers give to the world is to bear witness to these landscapes and species as we have experienced them.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Years, Giving, World

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• The world is going to be less biologically rich for quite some time in the future. We are always weeping that we live in such a diminished world, but we are experiencing a biologically rich world compared to what the future will look like. Bearing witness to that is a beautiful gift.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Beautiful, Looks, World

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present.

  Jose Parla

  Wall, Past, Bears

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Privilege, Moments

  Barack Obama's remarks on Egypt at the White House in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 11, 2011.

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• 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.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Profound, Way, Mortality

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• That happens a lot when people become parents, too. There's just so much at stake suddenly, and you're also witness to the total miracle of birth, and stuff like that. So I started reading tons of religious texts and checking everything out. One of the things I wanted to make sure of on the record is that it still has a "searching" vibe rather than an authoritative vibe.

  Mason Jennings

  Religious, Reading, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the word starts to spread and it gains momentum year after year.

  Darren Criss

  Years, People, Trying

  "Inside Darren Criss' Plan to Create an Annual Music Festival With Broadway Performers". Interview with Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 26, 2015.

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• It's always a mystery to me, I have to confess. I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there's nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there.

  Paul Auster

  Ideas, Able, Next

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men

  William Inge

  Animal, Men, Fields

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• It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride.

  John Piper

  Self Esteem, Humble, Biblical

  John Piper (2004). “The Supremacy of God in Preaching”, p.35, Baker Books

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• Lifting one's gaze to the living God, the guarantor of our freedom and of truth, is a premise for arriving at a new humanity. Nowadays, in a special way, the world needs people capable of proclaiming and bearing witness to God who is love, and consequently the one light which in the end, illumines the darkness of the world and gives us strength to live and work

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Light, Giving, People

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• [When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

  John Wesley

  Generosity, Thieves, May

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• You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage-Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to. But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof, and bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.

  Abigail Adams

  Family, Country, Sweet

  Abigail Adams (2016). “Abigail Adams: Letters”, p.376, Library of America

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• The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it.

  Michael Howard

  Hands, Bravery, Important

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• I couldn't have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of a personality. It was a kind of biological component for me that had to come first. My children gave this other window on the world.

  Carol Shields

  Mother, Children, Unique

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• Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ.

  John Piper

  Humble, Hands, Suffering

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.4, B&H Publishing Group

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• There was just too much evidence, from too many witnesses, pointing too many fingers at Ryan and his colleague for either defense team to have been able to portray it as a coincidence or a witch hunt or anything short of widespread corruption. And that's why we see this verdict.

  Andrew Cohen

  Team, Defense, Able

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