Witness Quotes - Page 30

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

  Christine McCormick Day

  Acceptance, Humans, Ifs

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• You truly need to witness me goo-gooing and coo-cooing and making up goofy little songs to glean a full appreciation of how nauseating I can be. This is another instance where things seemingly don't add up - how can this vile, hateful, violent, misogynist, racist, loathsome, repugnant, worthless, reprehensible subhuman be so insanely tender and kind to little doggies and kitty-cats?

  Jim Goad

  Song, Appreciation, Cat

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship...I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.

  Akbar Ganji

  Dream, Hunger Strike, Paradise

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When the prisoner is brought down from Death Row he steps from the elevator directly into a "holding" room that adjoins the witness room. There are two cells in this "holding" room, two, in case it's a double execution. They're ordinary cells, just like this one, and the prisoner spends his last night there before his execu­tion in the morning, reading, listening to the radio, playing cards with the guards.

  Truman Capote

  Morning, Reading, Night

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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• It's like they talk about how American actors have the method and English actors just kind of switch views faster. And John [Hurt] is telling me the story as he's sitting in that witness chair, and they're putting the final touches of makeup on. And he goes, "Hold on a second," to stop his story so he can do the take. And he does this incredible take. They go, "Cut." And then immediately John goes, "Anyways, so Alec, he's playing the chess." And I'm just going, "Holy crap." You get whiplash from those kinds of quick turns!

  Judd Nelson

  Hurt, Cutting, Makeup

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [Charles ] Kushner engaged in a conspiracy, with co-conspirators, to hire prostitutes to entice witnesses who were cooperating with the federal investigation.

  Jared Kushner

  Conspiracy, Investigation, Conspirators

  Source: www.npr.org

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• One of the series of decisions that the great screenwriter John McNamara made was about who to depict. [Ronald] Reagan had a role in HUAC, he was a friendly witness, but never went over-the-top about it.

  Jay Roach

  Decision, Friendly, Roles

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• When I did "Seven Easy Pieces," I actually re-performed the performances of other artists. It was such difficult work because I had to really go through the documentation, look through the sources, to ask the witnesses who saw it.

  Marina Abramovic

  Artist, Difficult Work, Looks

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Become a witness to your thoughts.

  Tara Brach

  "The stress of the holidays — and 2016 — may make this the perfect time to try meditation". www.washingtonpost.com. December 20, 2016.

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• The key is Jerusalem. If it is divided even a portion given to Palestinians - we will witness God's wrath outpoured in a measure unknown to mankind. If the US sponsors or demands such a move, America will be in a financial depression worse than the 1930's.

  David Wilkerson

  Moving, America, Keys

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• Another problem about writing about politics in the "age of globalization" is that so much of the violence in the form of war and also in the forms of institutional violence - sweatshops, child labor, victimization of people economically - happens elsewhere and out of sight. And when we do know about it and need to witness it, it's always mediated by images of one kind or another, so you're kind of stuck trying to write about what it's like trying to be you living your life thinking about and experiencing this stuff in that way.

  Robert Hass

  Children, War, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Based or our baptism, all are called to a mystical life, to communion with God. We need to claim that, to taste it and feel it, to trust that the deeper we live this communion, the more our behavior will witness to the truth.

  Henri Nouwen

  Baptism, Needs, Taste

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even though what they have done is heroic - is to distinguish them from the civic duty they performed, and excuses the rest of us from the same civic duty to speak out when we see something wrong, when we witness our government engaging in serious crimes, abusing power, engaging in massive historic violations of the Constitution of the United States. We have to speak out or we are party to that bad action.

  Edward Snowden

  Hero, Party, Sacrifice

  "Edward Snowden: A 'Nation' Interview". Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• We know from many forms of suffering that what is important first is a witness - people want to know that someone else knows what's happening, that they're not alone - and someone who listens to what is needed and tries to help.

  Gloria Steinem

  People, Suffering, Important

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I'm not the only one: witness Pokemon! They still keep coming up with this stuff that just rivets us in unexpected areas.

  William Gibson

  Pokemon, Stuff, Unexpected

  Source: craphound.com

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• I've lived long enough to see the triumph of zealots and absolutists, to watch money swallow politics, to witness the rise of the corporate state. See the party of working and poor people become a sycophant of crony capitalism. Watch the union of church and state become fashionable again. Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn't drift; I moved left just by standing still.

  Bill Moyers

  Wall, Party, Long

  Source: progressive.org

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• I think artists are going to express things from an emotional point of view, that's their job, to suggest and interpret, and report what they witness. That's their job as artists, you're looking for the rub, where's the rub, you're a storyteller, you're looking for the rub, not necessarily the solutions, or you're not necessarily educated, you're not the winner of a debate contest, a national debate contest, you're not necessarily a person who has a doctorate in anything.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Jobs, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: voidau.com

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• I don't really drink, but I've been around a lot of drinking and, at 18, when you start playing in bars, you start to witness the good, the bad and the ugly of alcohol as a source of escape. I wrote about it because I witnessed its use as a means of medicating - a lot of people using it to medicate themselves from hurt.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Hurt, Drinking, Mean

  Source: www.npr.org

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• As a kid growing up and seeing so much strife taking place in society, and particularly on Blacks and people of color, I had an opportunity as a young man to witness the change that was taking place in Harlem, the exodus of white folks leaving Harlem, which I thought was a very cohesive situation. But they felt that they needed to leave.

  John Carlos

  Growing Up, Kids, Opportunity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Once I became an adult and started to pursue writing as a professional career, I realized my main characters were always young people. My stories naturally center around children and teenagers. I think it's because I have worked with youth for about twelve years. The pains and joys of adolescents are moments I witness on a daily basis, so their stories are always with me as I write.

  Renee Watson

  Children, Pain, Teenager

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We may be sinking in the North Atlantic in the most famous ship disaster of all time, but God can still use us to reach out and save others through our witness.

  Mark Dever

  Use, May, Ships

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Advice on evangelism needs to be tailored to individual situations. For instance, I know someone who needs to be encouraged to speak less and work more. That would be a better testimony for him because he has certainly let his work colleagues know about Jesus. It's not that I don't want him to witness about Jesus, but I have a lot of sympathy for his employer. He is paying for work to be done.

  Mark Dever

  Jesus, Speak Less, Advice

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• We can't know at any given time how God will bless our faithful witness. So the apparent numerical growth of the church is never a good guide to how faithful we have been in evangelism.

  Mark Dever

  Faithful, Growth, Church

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• This whole [presidential] election is being rigged. These lies, spread by the media, without witnesses, without backup or anything else.

  Donald Trump

  Lying, Media, Presidential

  Source: time.com

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• I feel a responsibility, as I get older, to be responsible to what I've experienced, to what I've lived and been in a position to witness. I realize now that as a consequence of having lived the life I have, quite apart from the one, as I understand it, lived by most American writers, maybe I now know some things and have some stories to tell that others don't know about or wouldn't be able to tell. Maybe there's an intrinsic value in that lived experience and knowledge, though of course what you do with it is everything.

  Francisco Goldman

  Responsibility, Realizing, Responsible

  Source: therumpus.net

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