Quotes of: Witness-stand Keyword

He who really wants to die will not complain if he is buried standing up.

Mexican

Love's night and a lamp Judged our vows: That she would love me ever And I should never leave her. Love's night and you, lamp, Witnessed the pact. Today the vow runs: "Oaths such as these, waterwords." Tonight, lamp, Witness her lying - In other arms...

The Poems of Meleager

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

The Quotable Fulton Sheen: A Topical Compilation of the Wit, Wisdom, and Satire of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.

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

I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the ...

Patrick Carney

The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each m...

Cormac McCarthy

...The words testament and covenant are virtually synonymous in their theological usage, the Latin definition of testamentum being "a covenant with God, holy scripture." Thus, the Old and New Testaments, as we commonly refer to them, are written test...

Jeffrey R. Holland

[as the trolls are roasting half a dozen of the dwarves on a spit over a fire] Bilbo Baggins: Wait, wait! You are making a terrible mistake! Bert Troll: Eh? Dori: You can't reason with them, they're half-wits! Bofur: Half-wits? What does that make us...

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.

Suzy Kassem

I stand for something. I stand for light. Even when I sleep!

Matthew Maher

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.

Bob Marley

An empty sack can't stand up; a full sack cannot bend.

Virgin Islander

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

Stan Laurel

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Peter Marshall

When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.

Barbara Mikulski

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

Marian Wright Edelman

Men are by wits not by dicks

Himmilicious

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

Margaret Cavendish

The cheese stands alone The cheese stands alone Heigh-ho the merry-o The cheese stands alone

Robert Cormier

True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness set...

An Essay on Criticism

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day-if you live long enough-like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.

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