#witness

You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#missing-out #new-york-city #witnessing-history #new-york-city

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls. ↗

— Heraclitus

#eyes #people #poor #souls #witnesses

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears. ↗

— Heraclitus

#exact #eyes #more #than #witnesses

A writer's work is to witness things. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#witness #work #writer

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

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#away #character #done #during #i

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