Witness Quotes

My witness is the empty sky. (Jack Kerouac)
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe. View quote
Harriet Martineau
To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal. View quote
Larry Niven
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians. View quote
William Blake
Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. View quote
Ezra Pound
For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
In order to change a way of thinking, it is necessary to undergo profound internal changes and to witness profound external changes, especially in the performance of our duties and obligations to society. View quote
Che Guevara
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor. View quote
Nikola Tesla
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. (Paul)
Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life. View quote
Peter Zumthor
Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one. View quote
Junot Diaz
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it. View quote
Arthur Erickson
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. View quote
John Hersey
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience. View quote
John Updike
We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations, as with individuals, our interests, soundly calculated, will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties; and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is taken on its word, when recourse is had to armaments and wars to bridle others. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences. View quote
Whittaker Chambers
I was a mere tourist with no part whatever in this great conflict; but it was my rare privilege, through an unusual train of circumstances, to witness the moving scenes that I have resolved to describe. In these pages I give only my personal impressions; so my readers should not look here for specific details, nor for information on strategic matters; these things have their place in other writings. View quote
Henry Dunant
The way in which I know Christianity is true is first and foremost on the basis of the witness of the Holy Spirit in my heart. And this gives me a self-authenticating means of knowing Christianity is true wholly apart from the evidence. And therefore, even if in some historically contingent circumstances the evidence that I have available to me should turn against Christianity, I do not think that this controverts the witness of the Holy Spirit. View quote
William Lane Craig
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may. (Charlotte Brontë)
Some wonder why I have such a feeling of concern over the imposition of the death penalty. I ask those who wonder how would you feel if you defended a man charged with murder, who was as innocent as any hon. member in this House at this very moment, who was convicted; whose appeal was dismissed, who was executed; and six months later the star witness for the Crown admitted that he, himself, had committed the murder and blamed it on the accused? That experience will never be effaced from my memory. View quote
John Diefenbaker
I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it; that they may weave its warp, but cannot break it. Yet they should never give up, because there is always hope, though they know not the end and more towards it along roads which cross one another and as yet are unexplored; and since there is hope, they should not despair, no matter what fortune brings or in what travail they find themselves. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity. View quote
Cicero
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer. View quote
Viktor Frankl