Top Witness Quotes
It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle.
Krist Novoselic
It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.
Robert Fisk
The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua.
Bernard Dowiyogo
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
William Godwin
It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
Ralph Steadman
Ibrahim Babangida 
Jack Kerouac 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
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William Blake 
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Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
John Hersey 
43% of people like this quote
Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.
William Hamilton Maxwell
42% of people like this quote
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.
Morris West
41% of people like this quote
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
Arthur Erickson
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