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Witness Quotes (page 22)

Chuck Palahniuk quote: "(...) We're not here to witness anything. We're witch-hunters."
(...) We're not here to witness anything. We're witch-hunters. Chuck Palahniuk
Elaine Dundy quote: "I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance..."
I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance to sharpen my wits? It takes alot of training. Elaine Dundy
His defences were all in his wits and cunning, his very instincts of cunning, and when these were abeyance he seemed doubly naked and like a child, of unfinished, tender flesh, and somehow struggling helplessly David Herbert Lawrence
William Shakespeare quote: "Muster your wits; stand in your own defence..."
Muster your wits; stand in your own defence... William Shakespeare
Ram Dass quote: "Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to..."
Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it. Ram Dass
Alexander Pope quote: "Great wits are to madness near allied / And thin partitions do..."
Great wits are to madness near allied / And thin partitions do their bounds divide. Alexander Pope
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence. Alan Watts
His mother is dead, yet she has never not been, in theory, at his shoulder. He wants her not to have known and suffered or even witnessed all the things that followed her death. Including all this now. But that would be like wishing her dead. Merely dead. Graham Swift
Are you to be an individual, a trespasser in territory none else has had the wit or nerve to explore, or just another troublesome mosquito to be swatted by the authorities? Tom Robbins
You reason well, and your wit is bold, but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are, that some people see things that others cannot? Bram Stoker
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "I have taken to living by my wits."
I have taken to living by my wits. Arthur Conan Doyle
Confidential matters are not dealt with over the telephone, you'd better come here in person. I cannot leave the house, Do you mean you're ill, Yes, I'm ill, the blind man said after a pause. In that case you ought to call a doctor, a real doctor, quipped the functionary, and, delighted with his own wit, he rang off. The man's insolence was like a slap in the face. Only after some minutes had passed, had he regained enough composure to tell his wife how rudely he had been treated. Then, as if... Jose Saramago
When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative. Henri Nouwen
John Updike quote: "How many more, I must ask myself, such perfect ends of Augusts..."
How many more, I must ask myself, such perfect ends of Augusts will I witness? John Updike
You're a witness. You're always standing around watching what's happening, scribbling in your book what other people do. You have to get in the middle of it. You have to take sides. Make a contribution to the fight. Any fight. The one you believe in. Until you do, you'll never be a writer, Eugene. Neil Simon

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