Witnesse Quotes & Sayings

I am a fairly optimistic person ... If everything that I'm involved in now suddenly fell away, I know I would cope because I've coped before. — Maggie Tabberer

The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation. — Stephen King

It seems that the desire to oppress others is so ingrained in many humans that they readily distort even a liberating theory or concept into its inverse, creating another wall of defense against positive change. Ultimately, an unbiased observer of human behavior must conclude that most action is not shaped by theory, but rather theories are shaped to conform to actions we have no intention of changing. — Marjorie Spiegel

To be touched is, of course, to undergo something that comes from the outside, so I am, quite fundamentally, occasioned by that which is outside of me, which I undergo, and this undergoing designates a certain passivity, but not one that is understood as the opposite of 'activity.' To undergo this touch means that there must be a certain openness to the outside that postpones the plausibility of any claim to self-identity. The 'I' is occasioned by alterity, and that occasion persists as its necessary animating structure. Indeed, if there is to be self-representation, if I am to speak the 'I' in language, then this autobiographical reference has been enabled from elsewhere, has undergone what is not itself. Through this undergoing, an 'I' has emerged. — Judith Butler

Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state,
Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying
Thought — Edmund Spenser

Life without a friend is death without a witnesse.
[Life without a friend is death without a witness.] — George Herbert

Fire the doubters out of your life. — Ray Bradbury

Our presuppositions shape our perspective, our perspective shapes our priorities, and our priorities shape our practice. — Kenneth Boa

Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research about married women, you see that a lot of them tell you they get a lot of enjoyment from breaking the rules of corruption, because just for the fact that they break the rules, it makes them oppose the system. — Bahman Ghobadi

I don't want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I'm ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of. — Alice Bag

Everyone needs rules. After all, how can you break what doesn't exist? Rules give anarchy something to aim at — Jodi Taylor