Witnessed Quotations

We've all been affected by divorce in one way or another, whether we've experienced it personally, or witnessed family or friends go through it.

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.

I've been supporting Help for Heroes for many years - I actually rode in their first-ever official fundraiser back in 2008. I have witnessed the great work that Help for Heroes do to support those who have suffered life-changing injuries and illnesses, and I want to do all I can to help raise as much as possible.

Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.

I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.

In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the government-approved Social Realist style. Zhang Xiaogang, Huang Yong Ping, Ai WeiWei, Yue Minjun, and Wang Guangyi were among the first group of artists to establish a movement that became known as Cynical Realism.

In a single moment, we witnessed the worst of human behavior. And in the next, the very best of human behavior. And even more, we witnessed the tremendous spirit of Americans.

We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.

The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized.

Since the 1970s, we have witnessed the forces of market fundamentalism strip education of its public values, critical content, and civic responsibilities as part of its broader goal of creating new subjects wedded to consumerism, risk-free relationships, and the destruction of the social state.

I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion.

The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another how his parents had died of AIDS. Another said that he'd probably been to more funerals than parties in his young life. For me - someone who had had an idyllic, happy childhood - this was staggering.

Maryland first allowed early voting during the 2010 primary elections. In November 2012, more than 16 percent of registered voters in Maryland cast their ballots during the early voting period, and some polling places, particularly in our larger jurisdictions, witnessed early voting lines that were hours long.

I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.

Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day.

We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection.

Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. for a bit and saw even more. I assumed when I got to Colorado, the Wild West, there would be a rejection of such intrusive legislation. I was wrong.

The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world.

When people ask me why I'm amazed at what Barack Obama has accomplished, I tell them it's not because of what most of America and the world sees and knows of his history. It's because I witnessed what I can only describe as a bizarre turn of events that thrust him into position to even become a U.S. senator.

It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don't know how and why that is.

On Sunday August 5, 2012, I was among a group of people who witnessed the Rover landing on Mars in real time at NASA's Caltech-managed Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.

I witnessed a home birth with my sister Khloe and, after seeing it, I felt it wasn't for me. There was too much risk involved, and it wasn't as sanitary as a hospital.

What they've been doing lately is incredible, ... nothing I've ever witnessed before.

What has gratified me the most is the enthusiasm I have witnessed this week on campus and among our alumni and friends. No doubt that a winning team brings great credit to the university.

We're hoping someone who witnessed this senseless act or knows who is responsible will step forward.

We've witnessed a unique victory. To turn a Pentagon decision of this magnitude around in a little over a year's time, well, it doesn't usually happen.

We are hitting the consumer with headwinds that we have not witnessed on record.

When I look back upon the more than sixty years that I have spent on this entrancing earth, and when I am asked which of all the changes that I have witnessed appears to me to be the most significant, I am inclined to answer that it is the loss of a

When I came to A.C.T. 15 years ago, the Geary lay in ruins and the company was in a perilous financial state. Since then, I have witnessed a tremendous period of growth. This anniversary season is a chance to celebrate some of the wonderful artists we have had the good fortune to work with at A.C.T., to bring great new works to a region that continues to support and cherish this company, and to look ahead toward an even brighter future.

Man has been exploiting the energy of fire to his advantage since time immemorial. Had it not been for this natural source of energy, all the progress mankind has witnessed would never have been possible. Not a single factory could run without it.

Many of these children have witnessed horrific and almost apocalyptic scenes. I'm seeing a lot of shock ? but I'm also seeing a lot of hope.

Since coming to Congress in 1993, I have witnessed this committee struggle with VA's inability to adequately manage its IT funding and IT modernization efforts, ... This lack of accountability in VA IT spending must stop.

Since 2001, investors have witnessed some dramatic changes, but the last three quarters suggest a stable and relatively high level of confidence in long-term savings and investment plans. Since this index was launched seven years ago, it's suggested Canadians are generally committed to investing even through some major international incidents, market swings and more recently higher energy prices.

Sino-Japanese relationship has witnessed great progress since we normalized our relations. It is hard-won and should be treasured,

My friend had just been stabbed, and I wanted to talk with Eric McGee about the whole incident. Nobody but McGee could have witnessed it.

My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.

Obviously people seem to think that there will be an appetite for one as witnessed by AZN being a pound higher than it was this morning.

Personally witnessed vignettes and variations of everyday life wherever it occurred.

On the morning of September 11th, I was literally about 18 blocks from the World Trade Center. I witnessed in person what a lot of people witnessed in person, but what the world really saw on the television screen, I saw it with my own eyes that morning.

If they think they can go forward as if nothing's changed, they do not understand what the rest of America has witnessed over the past week.

I don't have a problem with the guy. He's a tremendous player on the field. I've witnessed that. He's a difference-maker. If I were to have an opportunity to be a teammate of his again, I wouldn't back down from the situation.

Business intelligence continues its proliferation across the enterprise and we have witnessed the evolution as BI has made its way out of the back office and onto the shop floor, the home office, and the sales field. For the past 30 years we have provided customers with cutting-edge technology and innovative strategies to support organizational success. The advent of portable business intelligence builds on our pioneering spirit and commitment to customer requirements.

China is in the midst of perhaps the largest military buildup the world has witnessed since the end of the Cold War.

Chris has been great his fall, ... He has a great attitude on and off course. Chris has one of best short games on the team. He manages to chip more shots in than any player I have witnessed in college golf.

I'm a mad thinker in general. I think about everything, all the time. Especially when I write music, a lot of the influences come from personal experiences or from being on the outside looking in, being that person who witnessed things that stuck with me throughout my life.

I'm a little worried that the political momentum that we witnessed this week may dissipate somewhat.

Growing up ... in the projects of south Atlanta, I witnessed a lot of things. I've seen people killed, seen people stabbed, and there was always some kind of (cause and effect) behind it. You know, here's a guy, we finished the Lord's Prayer after the game and he died. And that's something I never experienced - somebody to die without any reasoning behind it. That made it real tough for me.

I don't think our constituents think it's real. As with so many things, it seems to be so blown out of proportion. And, frankly, this generation has not witnessed anything like this. But I did take some notes during this meeting, and we are going to prepare.

If we look at a wider canvas, humanity has witnessed unimaginable, enormous and immeasurable changes and progress in the last one thousand years.

He understands the front end of preparing for disasters. He's been through Andrew. If you've been in Dade County fire, you've witnessed a few things.

He understands the front end of preparing for disasters, ... He's been through Andrew. If you've been in Dade County fire, you've witnessed a few things.

What you have just witnessed is the official breakdown of bipartisanship,

Having personally witnessed and fought vigorous efforts by the other side to disenfranchise voters, I'm encouraged by the desire to build long-term infrastructure to protect voting rights.

He sees death in the prostitutes who have witnessed the death of honor, and daily multiply the death of love, who bleed away their own lives 50 times a day beneath the relentless stabbings of countless conjugations.

We must guard against what the world witnessed last week in London.

He controlled the night in the city of Albany. Everything had to go through him, whether you were working with another agency, you had to go through him. If you wanted to make an arrest, you had to go through him, unless, of course, a cop witnessed a crime.

It is going to be about as ugly a scene as we've witnessed in this country, with the possible exception of 9/11,

It is going to be about as ugly a scene as we've witnessed in this country, ... I really want to tell people that we have got some tough days ahead of us.

I was born into a drug infested environment back in October of 1984, ... I witnessed things that many only see in movies. I saw a lot of gang violence and drug use while I was growing up. I used to see people dying all around me.

I think what this may show is that we may have witnessed the peak levels of consumer confidence in the late spring and early summer. But it confirms that you do have spirits holding at a high level.

I was working on one of the neighbors' phones and one of the gentlemen came up to me and said he witnessed somebody go into one of these houses, it was somebody that we knew didn't live there.

Over the past five years, we have witnessed the near extinction of the woodland caribou in North America. Indeed, we're only down to three animals in the U.S., largely due to the government's mismanagement of snowmobile traffic in areas vital to the animal's survival.

Robert Parker is the most followed and influential critic of French wines in the world, something I witnessed recently when choosing wine for President Clinton, who automatically referred to Robert Parker as his reference for making a proper wine-buying decision,

PIH combines idealism and brilliance to a degree I've never witnessed before in the public charity arena,

I witnessed with my own eyes China's great achievements made in economic growth, and feel that China is quite capable to adjust to the development of international situation.

I witnessed the gruesome workings of the machinery of death; gear meshed with gear, like clockwork,

I witnessed the building of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first orbiter to be launched into space.

I witnessed my wife being threatened by a man that I learned later to be intoxicated. I saw him touch her, and I know I should not have acted the way I did, but I would have felt terrible if I didn't react. There was no time to call security. It happened too quickly.

I witnessed him rescuing up to 40 people. He was up to his waist in toxic muck.

I witnessed firsthand what happens when the federal government fails to protect public health after disaster strikes, ... The long-term impact on human health -- and public confidence in government -- is devastating. Sierra Club's report is a wake-up call that it could happen again, and I confess that I am concerned for the rescue workers and residents facing the aftermath of the Katrina Hurricane. We need a full investigation of what happened at Ground Zero and what our government plans to do in all future emergencies.

John's courage was no surprise to us. We have witnessed his bravery, and knew his dedication to duty and his regard for the safety of others.

It is essential that anyone who witnessed the incident or has any information about what has happened contacts us immediately.

The acknowledgment of Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates by Time Magazine reflects the growing importance of philanthropy in society. The field of philanthropy is enduring a spectacular change fueled mostly by growth in size -- we have witnessed a 19% growth in the number of foundations in America during the past ten years -- and character. New and novel initiatives rise daily creating, in many respects, a time of optimism and creativity. Philanthropy is unique in that its resources go to creating long-term solutions and provides the opportunity and mandate to explore new creative solutions in ways not appropriate for public dollars. I think we have only just begun to see just how far this renewed interest in philanthropy is going to take us.

I would love for them to still be involved in the case. Anybody who saw Bill Moffitt's closing arguments witnessed the magnitude of his skills.

You just witnessed the worst seven minutes of this boy's life.

Will unionist demands for open, verifiable, photographed and witnessed decommissioning be adhered to or not? ... The day for deception is over. The day for the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth has come.

While 2005 witnessed a decrease from 2004, the yearly average is still very high in the Marshall Islands when compared both to its own history and to prevalence data from other countries. The Marshall Islands is averaging 14 suicides per year this decade (since 2000).

We had two UEFA officials there and neither witnessed (Rijkaard in the referee's changing-room at half-time). The referee's dressing room was locked and he and his assistants were the only people allowed in.

We have also witnessed members of the task force announcing their intentions to do what they can to stop Broadwater, even before the review and analysis by FERC. This has raised continued concerns about the impartiality of the task force, and this forum.

We have witnessed this year a phenomenal growth in MP3.

We have witnessed a worrying trend of excessive use of force.

We have witnessed a performance from Shaun which has been a bit special - a remarkable effort,

The president encountered and witnessed traffic for the first time in three years on the way to the airport.

We are hoping that someone who witnessed the accident will come forward.

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

What we have witnessed in past matches, and specifically matches where the home team of Korea were involved, I have to say I have difficulties understanding our referee committee concerning the designation of the referees and the linesmen.

We didn't do a good job handling their defensive pressure, and that was witnessed by very suspect footwork and poor passing on our part. We blew a lot of good opportunities to get the ball inside.

This strategy is an important component of the overall anti-terror strategy. What I've witnessed is very, very disturbing.

We do consider (the suspects) very dangerous, we know they were armed and we are currently looking for them. My understanding is these individuals are not know to the victims. However, certainly we're going to be interviewing as many people as possible who were here and witnessed the event and may know these individuals.

The fact that the tsunami struck a tourist region, and happened right after Christmas, played a role in terms of the generosity. We haven't witnessed that yet with the earthquake. Not at all. We need all the help we can get.

We launched the strategic security consultation mechanism, approved the supplementary agreement on the Sino-Russia eastern border, issued the China-Russia Joint Declaration on the World Order in the 21st Century, held a joint military exercise and witnessed fast growth of trade and economic ties.

When policy-makers have already witnessed a significant move in asset values, and are confident in what that move means for the outlook, it should be prepared to adjust policy accordingly. The central bank must be responding to its assessment of what an already observed movement in asset prices will mean for output and inflation.

Though as a psychologist I like to think that nothing human is foreign to me, I admit to having been repeatedly flabbergasted by the insouciance, and sometimes relish, with which our ancestors carried out and witnessed unspeakable cruelties.

We have gotten some information from a person that may have witnessed something, and we have contacted three or four people of interest. There have been no arrests.

There have been some terrible winters in Chicago, where it feels like I'm literally being punched in the face, and everyone walks around looking stunned like they've just witnessed a murder.

The person who is wedded to Truth and Love would need nothing more for peace and happiness. When Creation is witnessed through these values, it becomes holy scripture, an inspiring lesson and guide.

While I'm always sympathetic to police, I am shocked at some of tactics being used. I have personally witnessed women, who had been trying to prevent stoning, being pushed to the ground for no justifiable reason.

Undoubtedly, life insurance confidence is also being fed by the strong equity markets that we have witnessed in this country over the last three years. This has continued uninterrupted in the first quarter of 2006, and as a result, insurance company's earnings have been boosted.