#witness

I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#becoming #before #gore #i #life

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#cruel #ends #germany #how #italy

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#alcoholism #alienation #dependency #human #incidence

I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home? ↗

— Brian Celio

#dies #does #door #god #goes

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#becomes #fail #hitters #i #superior

A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#fact #incidental #man #only #primarily

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work. ↗

— Eduardo Chillida

#between #comes #himself #implacable #man

I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying. ↗

— Rachel Corrie

#destruction #feel #horrifying #i #i feel

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#part #possess #something #take #witness

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#great #privileges #terrace #witness