Witness Quotes - Page 28

• Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention. Don't look for quick results; there may be none within your noticing. Unknown to you, your psyche will undergo a change; there will be more clarity in your thinking, charity in your feeling, purity in your behavior. You need not aim at these - you will witness the change all the same. For, what you are now is the result of inattention and what you become will be the fruit of attention.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Thinking, Giving, Feelings

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• 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.

  Billy Graham

  Angel, Decisions We Make, Walking Through Life

  Billy Graham (2009). “Graham 2in1 (Angels/Peace With God)”, p.88, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you live with a single parent, you don't see compromise. You witness a grown person living in a world where they do what they want to do. When you are raised by two parents, you are constantly watching compromise take place. Just by observing that, it made me a better person.

  Chris Rock

  Two, Parent, World

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

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• Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

  Heinrich Heine

  Photography, Art, Opinion

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• Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal with a gorgeous genius for hope.

  Lionel Tiger

  Passion, Animal, Thinking

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• Easiest job you could ever have... whoever gets to put Michael Jackson in a witness chair and create reasonable doubt.

  Richard Jeni

  Jobs, Doubt, Chairs

  "A Big, Steaming Pile Of Me". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means a witness, a shepherd, an apostle on the move.

  Pope Paul VI

  Moving, Mean, Shepherds

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• Photography is very subjective. Photography is not a document on which a report can be made. It is a subjective document. Photography is a false witness, a lie.

  Robert Doisneau

  Photography, Lying, Made

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• If anything, I see myself as a witness. I'd also be pleased, if you'd call me an interpreter. I try to hear and see the message of a place and pass it on, into that other language, the universal one of images.

  Wim Wenders

  Trying, Messages, Language

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• I lost my virginity junior year of college, I was 21... I was awkward, and I was raised Jehovah's Witness so I thought sex was bad, I thought I was going to go to hell, and get AIDS immediately.

  Donald Glover

  Sex, College, Years

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• I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.

  Susan Meiselas

  Encounters, Tradition, Photograph

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• Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they were, or what they were. Like men in a dark room, they only felt their existence surging in the darkness of other creatures. We, however, have learned to see ourselves for what we are, as the sun sees us. The Kodak bears witness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dark, Men, Egypt

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• To me, photographs are like words and I generally will place many photographs together or print them one inside the other in order to construct a free-floating sentence that speaks about the world I witness.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Order, Together, Floating

  David Wojnarowicz (2014). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.81, Open Road Media

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• Look, I really do not care about you. What I care about is the worlds that you bear witness to. You are nothing more than a dog with a video camera strapped on its back. As you walk the streets looking for a place to mate or piss or eat, the camera is on and we will see the world because of you... You carry the camera and we enjoy the world. (On images as autobiography)

  Michael Lesy

  Dog, Video Cameras, World

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. September 16, 2003.

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• I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can't say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world. I had no good moral reasons: I just loved adventure, I loved the poetry of war, the poetry of chaos, and I found that there was a kind of grace in weaving between the bullets.

  Luc Delahaye

  Photography, War, Adventure

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• I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image.

  Raymond Depardon

  Ideas, Belief, Journalism

  "Artforum International" Interview with Miriam Rosen, February 2001.

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• Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.

  Martine Franck

  Photography, Hands, Talking

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• Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like a notebook.

  Mario Giacomelli

  Notebook, Photography, Earth

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• Whatever the aspect, I've tried to provide clear witness to what I've found, to resonate well enough with the harmonics of the place that the tuning can be felt in the pictures.

  Frank Gohlke

  Tuning, Enough, Aspect

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• Of course, the camera is a far more objective and trustworthy witness than a human being. We know that a Brueghel or Goya or James Ensor can have visions or hallucinations, but it is generally admitted that a camera can photograph only what is actually there, standing in the real world before its lens.

  Hannah Hoch

  Real, Vision, Lenses

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• Photography is the mirror, more faithful than any actual mirror, in which we witness at every age, our own aging. The actual mirror accompanies us through time, thoughtfully and treacherously; it changes with us, so that we appear not to change.

  Christian Metz

  Photography, Mirrors, Accompany Us

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• I believe photography is about choosing to live, being brave. Looking is an act of courage. It's terrifying. It's possible to see too much, to witness things that we cannot hold.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Photography, Believe, Brave

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• I bear you my witness that the Savior is closer to us than you have any idea. He will be close to you and the powers divine will be at your side when you have nowhere else to turn.

  Harold B. Lee

  Your Side, Ideas, Divine Will

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• When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed. Men and women changed for Christ will be captained by Christ. Their will is swallowed up in His will. They do always those things that please the Lord. Not only would they die for the Lord, but more important they want to live for Him. They stand as witnesses of God at all times, and in all things, and in all places. They have Christ on their minds, as they look unto Him in every thought. They have Christ in their hearts as their affections are placed on Him forever.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heart, Men, Forever

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• Honestly, working with Eddie Murphy was mind-blowing just in terms of the budget alone. To see the respect he commands, to witness his presence, you understand why he and people like Martin Lawrence are stars.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Stars, People, Mind Blowing

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. June 16, 2008.

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