#witness

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#consistent #dead #dealt #even #gone

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'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

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

— Jean Giraudoux

#great #privileges #terrace #witness

The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua. ↗

— Bernard Dowiyogo

#destruction #nations #people #stand #united

We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence. ↗

— John Fiske

#constructive #endure #foundation #god #harmonize

A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence. ↗

— John Foxe

#accuser #against #allowed #every #evidence