Witness Quotes - Page 32

• The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Jobs, Artist, History

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• The more I read my Bible the more I veered away from the Jehovah's Witnesses.

  Cliff Richard

  Jehovah

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• 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

  Law, Bears, Stealing

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• Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Courage, Perfect

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, no. 216, 1665.

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• Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Perfect, Would Be

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• Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Courage, Perfect, World

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

  Marco Rubio

  America, Century, Decline

  "Rubio eyes 'a new American century'" by Scot Wong, www.politico.com. June 14, 2011.

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• I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.

  Ja Rule

  Children, Years, Church

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

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• My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?

  Ja Rule

  Spiritual, Practice, Long

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

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• 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

  Funny, Hands, World Suffering

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

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Opportunity, Art Is

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

  George Santayana

  Get Well, Mind, Body

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.15, Рипол Классик

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• I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Organization, June, Proud

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• We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Regret, Missing, Enemy

  "Counsels and Maxims" by Arthur Schopenhauer, vol. 2, ch. 26, sect. 311a, 1851.

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• I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.

  Jill Scott

  Grandmother, Men, Color

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• My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away but what I can say is that the Jehovah Witnesses took very good care of her up until she died.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Mother, Dad, Church

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• In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Powerful, Color, Smell

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• 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

  Years, Tape, Pressure

  "All Police Interrogations Should Be Tape-Recorded". Article by Eliot Spitzer, www.slate.com. October 08, 2012.

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• 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

  Fall, Grace, Way

  "Tim Tebow Discusses Faith and Football in the No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. June 3, 2011.

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• 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

  Thinking, Water, Privilege

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• I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Reading, Government, Speech

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau, C. David Crenna (1987). “Lifting the Shadow of War”, McClelland & Stewart

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• It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

  Mark Udall

  Holocaust, Documentation, Horror

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• 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

  Men, Color, Diversity

  "J.C. Watts: Bringing Diversity and Faith to Washington". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.

  Ellen G. White

  Joy, Holy, Chiefs

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• I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt towards the central government when I got here on January 1, 1970 has pretty much dissipated at the hands of the government.

  George Will

  Government, Hands, Years

  "George Will's Libertarian Evolution". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch, reason.com. December, 2013.

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