#testify

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify. ↗

— Ramsey Clark

#duty #felt #i #me #testify

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic. ↗

— John A. Logan

#coming #cost #forgotten #free #generations

Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify. ↗

— Evan Davis

#consumption #element #enters #expensive #extra

It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree. ↗

— Joseph J. Ellis

#character #clinton #distinguished #had #history

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#am #challenge #comes #completely #consequences

I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify. ↗

— Jeff Gannon

#assume #back #called #honestly #i

The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life. ↗

— Anita Hill

#changed #experience #life #my life #testifying

I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#awareness #before #congress #funds #guy

Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#conflicts #conventional #dealt #disputes #except

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#freezing #melt #moment #mortality #mutability