#witnesses

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

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#before #behind #dance #far #far away

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

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#cannot #judges #knowledge #least #need

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

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