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Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.
by Jane Rule (Author, Canadian , born in 1931) keywords: artist, artists, bearing, because, each, every, extent, job, live, seems, some, think, unique, us, voices, witness , world If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.
by Jane Rule (Author, Canadian , born in 1931) keywords: bear, citizens, had, individuals, instead, life, presence, right, sacrificed, silence, speaking , witness Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
by John Ruskin (Writer, English , born in 1819) keywords: assistance, cursing, hand, help, inflict, invoking, make, only, other, spirit, statement, suffering, swearing, wish , witness There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.
by Zoe Saldana (Actor, American , born in 1978) keywords: against, am, ass, become, comes, comfortable, day, everything, god, going, keep, long, nature, possibly, skin, together, try, without, witness , your I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.
by Jan Schakowsky (Politician, American , born in 1944) keywords: american, coalition, coordinated, darfur, disaster, found, humanitarian, jewish, june, mobilize, ongoing, organizations, proud, response, save , witness Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down.
by Michael Schiavo (Celebrity, American , born in 1963) keywords: death, down, even, everybody, family, going, happen, home, living, make, need, paper, piece, talk, will, witness, write , your Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.
by Vernon L. Smith (Economist, American , born in 1927) keywords: care, dawned, day, every, excitement, fresh, hard, hours, learn, life, long, much, new, old, parents, seven, six, witness, world, year , yes Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.
by Terence Stamp (Actor, British , born in 1939) keywords: bore, career, first, influence, lived, peter, positive, real, really, said, them, things , witness It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
by Ralph Steadman (Cartoonist, British , born in 1936) keywords: become, desperately, how, just, makes, our, sad, witness, world , wretched I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
by Pierre Trudeau (Statesman, Canadian , born in 1919) keywords: bear, boat, drafted, fact, go, government, heads, meet, motions, nato, objective, only, others, principal, reading, rocking, solemn, speeches, state, tedious, through , witness I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.
by Francis Walsingham (Celebrity, English , born in 1530) keywords: anything, bear, call, done, god, honest, man, nor, nothing, person, place, private, public, unworthy , witness My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand.
by Damon Wayans (Comedian, American , born in 1960) keywords: father, hand, jehovah, raised, strict, under, us, very , witness None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
by Morris West (Writer, Australian , born in 1916) keywords: against, any, corruption, failure, failures, follies, going, guaranteed, human, kind, moment, nature, none, us, witness , world Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.
by Dar Williams (Musician, American , born in 1967) keywords: fine, forgiveness, myself, need, nights, only, see, sometimes, truth, whole , witness Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
by Woodrow Wilson (President, American , born in 1856) keywords: bread, business, daily, empty, everything, fact, first, god, his, including, life, lord, love, national, neighbor, our, petition, prayer, spiritual, stomach, underlies, witness , worship The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists.
by Ernst Zundel (Activist, German , born in 1939) keywords: anarchists, back, being, chair, communists, courtroom, full, his, jewish, judge, lobbyists, questioned, sitting, stand, these, towards, turned, while, whole , witness
