#witnesses

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

They've got him - credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an open-and-shut case. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#credible #documents #else #got #heaven

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#makes #nothing #proper #resist #set

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#deaths #existence #feel #friends #look

It is often much harder to get rid of books than to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and oblivion we make with them, witnesses to a moment in our lives we will never see again. While they are still there, it is part of us. ↗

— Carlos María Domínguez

#life #moments #need #soul #witnesses

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it. ↗

— Mark Udall

#deeply #deny #despite #documentation #holocaust

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial. ↗

— Bill McCollum

#criminal #involves #matter #trial #true

The more I read my Bible the more I veered away from the Jehovah's Witnesses. ↗

— Cliff Richard

#bible #i #jehovah #more #read

Our religion, then, rests on the credit due to these witnesses. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#due #our #religion #rests #then

Do you know how marriage was defined in ancient Greece? Noel said in a calmer tone. Its really simple. A virgin goes to mans house with the family gathered as witnesses. The virgin and the man share a fire, a meal, and a bed. If the girl wasn't a virgin in the morning, then the couple was considered married. That's it ↗

— Josephine Angelini

#couple #family #girl #marriage #witnesses