Quotes of: Witness-stand Keyword

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

We bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on to the next atrocity. There is always more atrocity.

Roxane Gay

The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003.

Dave Eggers

On the morning of September 11th, I was literally about 18 blocks from the World Trade Center. I witnessed in person what a lot of people witnessed in person, but what the world really saw on the television screen, I saw it with my own eyes that morn...

Steve Tisch

There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.

Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.

The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer

Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. That's not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it's a witness...

Tullian Tchividjian

Plainly it is not every error made by a witness which affects his credibility. In each case the trier of fact has to make an evaluation; taking into account such matters as the nature of the contradictions, their number and importance, and their bear...

H.C. Nicholas

San Francisco Cop: [identifying a body] The fruit was walking home with his trick when they were jumped. Name's Robert Hillsborough. Did you know him? Harvey Milk: He used to come into my shop. Are there any witnesses? San Francisco Cop: Just the tri...

Milk

An empty sack cannot stand up.

Haitian

Jesus emerges not as the cultural captive of any one group of people, but as the promise of salvation to all believers and as the foundation of liberation in this life.

My Soul Is a Witness: The Message of the Spirituals in Word and Song [With CD]

Your desire and willingness will call forth witnesses to Awakening, and there is nothing in form that can speed up Awakening – for form but witnesses to the desire within.

Unwind Your Mind Back to God: Experiencing A Course in Miracles

Two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind—politics and religion. He doesn’t want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

I promised never to let the Rwandan Genocide die because I knew the Rwandans didn't have much power internationally and certainly didn't have the resources. I felt it was my duty having witnessed it, and having stayed to witness it, that I had to tal...

Romeo Dallaire

In Ferguson, there are witnesses who say Brown had his hands up when he was shot. That should be enough probable cause to go to trial to then determine if Officer Wilson is guilty or not. It is at trial that he can then defend himself and his attorne...

Al Sharpton

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

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