#witness

It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that. ↗

— Wendie Malick

#became #ever #feeling #group #helpless

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

These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#almighty god #american #been #every #express

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. ↗

— Margaret Millar

#delivered #monologues #most #presence #simply

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#becomes #conscience #evil #his #ideal

Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#bears #good #good art #however #i

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. ↗

— George Santayana

#function #instrument #mind #operation #reward

As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create a better life for themselves, their families, and future generations. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#better #better life #come #create #families

I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#coalition #coordinated #darfur #disaster #found

Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#events #few #few men #history #how