One no more owes one's beauty to a lover than one's wit to an echo
The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.
My message to France and Europe is that we will make sure Venezuela won't witness the rise of another Pinochet. And we will do it the democratic way.
There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seeing something unique or special. I don't really understand the psychology of it, to be honest.
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
The statements of four witnesses of unquestioned integrity, traveling with me that day, attest that such comments were never made and confirm that it simply did not happen.
I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts.
The heart of the gospel is that you don't know Jesus without the witness of the church. It's always mediated.
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
Feeling low is normal, or sometimes, healthy. A lot of great things this world has witnessed were kickstarted by men when they felt low.
As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere around me.
Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness. BLOG post-Perpetual Beginning-November 14 2011
When fully united, without ego or weakness, we become the greatest invisible force this world has ever witnessed.
And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb.
The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.
In AR, a falling tree makes no sound unless there is a witness to behold the event. Otherwise, it is only a changing pattern in a complex data-stream.
Poor or rich, black or white, quiet or naughty, mentally defective or sharp-witted, thin or fat, all children are great!
No one likes to admit they are racist or bear prejudices. Nor do they even like to be open and honest when they witness racist behaviour.
There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.
