#testimony

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it. ↗

#demands #dialectic #event #interpreted #meaning

Testimony gives something to be interpreted. ↗

First off, we've had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn't sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off, that they went off after the war in most cases and went off a lot. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#before #cases #first #had #lot

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#complications #events #faith #great #know

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#fundamental #give #honestly #i #i think

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. ↗

— Mark Strand

#american #been #i #personal #poetry

If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#country #court #directors #every #expert

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#masquerading #medicine #psychiatric #testimony

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm. ↗

— Gay Talese

#being #day #get #his #hope

Never mix business with religion, or you might end up losing your testimony when the business agreement is no longer something you or Christ would put up with. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#business #church #deals #greed #testimony