Quotes About Witness

Atticus sometimes said that one way to tell whether a witness was lying or telling the truth was to listen rather than watch.

Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food. Do it, and you'll often get an answer you don't want, an answer that might wreck your case.

around the house to get in, but he run out the front door just ahead of me. I sawed who he was, all right. I was too distracted about Mayella to run after'im. I run in the house and she was lyin' on the floor squallin'—" "Then what did you

Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food.

I proved him a liar but John made him look like a fool. All the time Ewell was on the stand I couldn't dare look at John and keep a straight face. John looked at him as if he were a three-legged chicken or a square egg. Don't tell me judges don't try to prejudice juries.

I was becoming nervous. Atticus seemed to know what he was doing - but it seemed to me that he'd gone frog-sticking without a light. Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food. Do it, and you'll often get an answer you don't want, an answer that might wreck your case.

The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring - and all of the acts carried out - on this earth. But the moon remained silent; it told no stories.

The ones who did it can always rationalize their actions and even forget what they did. They can turn away from things they don't want to see. But the surviving victims can never forget. They can't turn away. Their memories are passed on from parent to child. That's what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today

Preach the Gospels everyday & only if you have to...use words.

Preach the Gospel, use words when necessary.

Preach the Gospel, if necessary use words

I had no witness against me left but my own memory."..

savez-vous ce que c'est que de voir mourir quelqu'un ? Y avez-vous déjà assisté ? Avez-vous vu comment le corps se recroqueville, comment les ongles bleuis griffent le vide, comment chaque membre se contracte, chaque doigt se raidit contre l'effroyable issue, comment un râle sort du gosier...avez-vous vu dans les yeux exorbités cette épouvante qu'aucun mot ne peut rendre ?

People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.

We cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth.

If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?

Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.

But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me.

For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.

And even one life that bears witness to the truth of the prosperity law will quicken the consciousness of the whole community.

And the truth shall bear witness of itself.