Quotes of: Wits Keyword

Surround yourself with the right people and witness what happens

Batya Maman Sabag

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

Corazon Aquino

I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me.

Dominick Dunne

The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.

James Garner

The Holy Spirit is faithful to empower you to carry out your witness of Jesus.

Jim George

Andrew Wyke: Wit in the face of adversity! Good! You've learned something from the English.

Sleuth

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

William Godwin

The act of witnessing is important to me; somebody's got to tell the truth, you know what I mean?

Athol Fugard

Mr. Myers: I hope we are not to be deprived of the learned and stimulating company of Sir Wilfrid?

Witness for the Prosecution

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

Charles Brenton Huggins

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Antoine Rivarol

Anybody with a sharp brain and a mic can become a comedian, but there's a need to move beyond it. The audience wants to witness the marriage of theatre, comedy and something more.

Vir Das

A common and highly effective method for challenging a statement is to compare it to the previous statements of the witness for consistency and to compare it with the physical evidence.

Robert P. McCulloch

Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.

William Gurnall

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

W. Somerset Maugham

As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.

Yo-Yo Ma

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

Evelina

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

Donald Barthelme

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Alexander Pope

Great wits are to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Absalom and Achitophel

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

Killosophy