A writer's work is to witness things.

- Edward Hoagland

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

- Louis C. K.

The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.

- Janet McTeer

For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did.

- Jan Hus

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

- J. M. G. Le Clezio

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

- Jean Giraudoux

My witness is the empty sky.

- Jack Kerouac

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

- George W. Bush

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

- George Santayana

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

- Eduardo Chillida

So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.

- Adam Levine

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

- Dani Shapiro

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

- Doris Lessing

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

- Dar Williams

Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions.

- Christian de Duve

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

- Christiane Amanpour

Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries.

- Colin Mochrie

His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.

- Charles Stanley

In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers didn't understand what we were doing, either. There were actual fistfights between film-makers and video-makers. I was witness to one.

- Bill Viola

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

- Athol Fugard