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Letter "W" » witnessing
«I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.»
Author: Carlos Castaneda
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Beauty,
Carpe Diem,
Life,
Literary
| Keywords:
count, in fact, marveling, marvels, Too Short, warrior, witnessing
«Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.»
Author: Franklin P. Jones
(Businessman)
| Keywords:
bringing, bringing up, proper, resist, sound, temptation, values, witnesses, witnessing
«Life without a friend is like death without a witness»
«Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come: / That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
witnessing
«Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Silence
| Keywords:
bear, potential, sculpture, sculptures, silent, wit, witness, witnessing
«The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
allegation, allegations, assembly, at long last, a few, brought, each week, established, evidence, evidences, fact, few, has-been, historical, in evidence, in no time, in order, last, longer, no longer, once, order, Orders of, out in, out of order, over, repeated, support, take orders, The Last, This Week, times, weeks, week after week, witnessed, witnessing
«Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Sports
| Keywords:
boastfulness, bound up, disregard, Fair Play, in other words, minus, minuses, sadistic, shooting, sport, witnessing
«I'm a word man. See, there's this theory about the nature of tragedy, that Aristotle didn't mean catharsis for the audience but a purgation of emotions for the actors them selves. The audience is just a witness to the event taking place on stage.»
«As to the juror or the witness, bribe both»
«But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.»
Author: William Carlos Williams
(Poet)
| Keywords:
array, close set, detail, in detail, lifting, One The, The Nose, The Walking, witnessing, witness stand
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