Quotes of: Witness-stand Keyword

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alberto Salazar

He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him.

Bob Crosby

It takes nothing to join the crowd and takes everything to stand alone in front of the same crowd

SAMBAL CHAULAGAIN

Cayse you left a jagged hole. And I can' stand it any more.

Life

Cultures should not be like water that dissolves them evenly, but like colours that stand out distinctly.

Vinita Kinra

Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision.

William Hurt

I do have some viewers who know where I live, and they'll stand outside.

Zoe Sugg

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

Colin R. Davis

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.

Marilyn Monroe

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

William Gaddis

I've always looked to other women for inspiration and kicks. When a woman stands up and does her thing, it never ceases to excite and inspire me.

Neneh Cherry

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Khalil Gibran

Rebecca: Oh! It's that comedian I was telling you about. [she turns up the volume on her television, which is showing an odd-looking man performing stand-up comedy] Rebecca: See this bit, it's the absolute worst. Joey McCobb, the Stand Up Comic: [on ...

Ghost World

Other priests, he knew, found an intense pleasure in the raw, salty dialect of peasant conversation. They picked up pearls of wisdom and experience over a farmhouse table or a cup of wine in a workingman's kitchen. They talked with equal familiarity ...

The Devil's Advocate

The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when we think we are alone. Think of what they could tell us. They sit on the laps of presidents. They see acts ...

The Dogs of Babel

I've traveled all over the world for the Institute, but I never dreamed I'd meet someone like you." "Strong?" A chuckle escaped her. "Yes." "Handsome?" "Of course." "Sharp of wit and skilled with a sword?" "Absolutely." An other chuckle. "But I mean ...

The Darkest Night

It was not about physical strength, Wit reminded himself. It was 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical. That's what the SEAL instructors were looking for: men and women who could disregard the pleadings of the body. Pain was nothing, sleep was nothi...

Earth Awakens

The resurrection is the revelation to chosen witnesses of the fact that Jesus who died on the cross is indeed king - conqueror of death and sin, Lord and Savior of all. The resurrection is not the reversal of a defeat but the proclamation of a victor...

Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice should create in the discerning male reader a deeply rooted concupiscence for Elizabeth Bennet that springs not from her vivacity or from her wit but from her unerring instinct to follow the deeply moral directives...

Gospel Prism