#witness

Well, you know, one lawyer says I'm the only witness and I'm not credible. Another lawyer says this witness - there's tons of evidence that's been available for years. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#available #been #credible #evidence #i

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

#doors #education #excel #experience #how

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age. ↗

— Peter Akinola

#american #been #bury #church #deadly

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

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

We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#community #daily #effect #encourage #held

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#because #comes #examined #feminists #haven

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#chambers #class #europe #had #having