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Wits Quotes (page 27)

The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. William Shakespeare
He sat beside me pleasantly and played his sweet music to me, and in the end he foretold things that put drunkenness on my wits. Lady Gregory
The realistic style is easy to abuse: from haste, from lack of awareness, from inability to bridge the chasm that lies between what a writer would like to be able to say and what he actually knows how to say. It is easy to fake; brutality is not strength, flipness is not wit, edge-of-the-chair writing can be as boring as flat writing; dalliance with promiscuous blondes can be very dull stuff when described by goaty young men with no other purpose in mind than to describe dalliance with... Raymond Chandler
Joseph Ratzinger quote: "Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and..."
Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering. Joseph Ratzinger
I am sure that deep down Ikhmenev was in a state of turmoil and pain as he witnessed the tears and torment of his poor wife; I am sure it was more agonizing for him than for her - but he could not control himself. This is what happens sometimes even with the most kind-hearted of people, who are nevertheless weak-willed, and who, despite their kind-heartedness, are apt to get carried off into a state of ecstasy when unburdening themselves of their grief and anger, even at the expense of... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Leo Tolstoy quote: "No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is..."
No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit Leo Tolstoy
as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow. Anne Rice
God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down. C. S. Lewis
Plato quote: "An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the..."
An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers. Plato
Ray Bradbury quote: "I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the..."
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored. Ray Bradbury
At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down. Margaret Atwood
It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle. Nick Hornby
Simone de Beauvoir quote: "It must feel wonderfully strange when, like Manette, one..."
It must feel wonderfully strange when, like Manette, one stands there, the only witness to a vanished world. Simone de Beauvoir
I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time." "Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance. Jane Austen
The thing can never be separated from someone who perceives it; nor can it ever actually be in itself because its articulations are the very ones of our existence, and because it is posited at the end of a gaze or at the conclusion of a sensory exploration that invests it with humanity. To taking up or the achievement by us of an alien intention or inversely the accomplishment beyond our perceptual powers and as a coupling of our body wit the things. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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