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  • As a government employee, you can't testify against the government. -- James Hansen
  • I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify. -- Ramsey Clark
  • We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury. -- Ben Bradlee
  • I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness. -- Christopher Reeve
  • I testify to you that God's pay is the best pay that this world or any other world knows anything about. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love. -- Rumi
  • I think anybody that's worked hard and has built something and has been successful can testify to how, you know, how wonderful that was, how wonderful it still is. -- Kid Rock
  • To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. -- Susan Sontag
  • Here is also to be noted, that the cause of the institution was to be a memorial, to testify that Christ's body was given, and his blood shed for us. -- William Tyndale
  • Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities. -- Steig Larsson
  • In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy. -- Betty Hill
  • Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
  • When I was a young prosecutor, I got called to testify against my boss. I could have backed down, but I didn't. I stood up to him. And he fired me for it. -- Susana Martinez
  • I testify that inspiration can be the spring for every person's hope, guidance, and strength. It is one of the magnified treasures of life. It involves coming to the infinite knowledge of God. -- James E. Faust
  • Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic. -- John A. Logan
  • I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful way the windows of Heaven have been opened and blessings have been poured out upon him or her. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
  • Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify. -- Evan Davis
  • Prosecutors say it would be next to impossible to get one teen to testify in court that another had slipped him or her a copied disc at lunchtime. And besides, isn't sharing music a time-honored part of teen friendship? -- Charles Duhigg
  • My feeling is, if you're going to be called a celebrity, you might as well use it for some good. It's better to testify for school lunches in front of Congress than get drunk in a bar somewhere and misbehave. -- Tom Colicchio
  • A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences. -- Whittaker Chambers
  • Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women. -- Camille Paglia
  • Often as we teach and testify about the law of tithing, we emphasize the immediate, dramatic and readily recognizable temporal blessings that we receive. And surely such blessings do occur. Yet some of the diverse blessings we obtain as we are obedient to this commandment are significant but subtle. -- David A. Bednar
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  • Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination confers authority, but righteousness is required to act with power as we strive to lift souls, to teach and testify, to bless and counsel, and to advance the work of salvation. -- David A. Bednar
  • I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips. -- Macaulay Culkin
  • We are not called upon to enter into controversy with those who hold false theories. Controversy is unprofitable. Christ never entered into it. 'It is written' is the weapon used by the world's Redeemer. Let us keep close to the Word. Let us allow the Lord Jesus and His messengers to testify. We know that their testimony is true. -- Ellen G. White
  • The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night. -- Robert Bly
  • When we stand for social justice, we testify to the presence of the Kingdom. -- John Wimber
  • When I testify, I'll testify. I don't need to sit around chewing my fingernails. -- Mark Fuhrman
  • Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
  • it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress. -- Condoleezza Rice
  • The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify. -- Abraham Flexner
  • For who will testify, who will accurately describe our lives if we do not do it ourselves? -- Faye Moskowitz
  • I am Conservative to the core of my being, as those who know me best will testify. -- David Cameron
  • Every demonstration of God's faithfulness to us is an opportunity for us to testify of Him to others. -- Max Anders
  • I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper. -- Hilda Doolittle
  • I can testify that it is nearly always easier to make $1,000,000 honestly than to dispose of it wisely. -- Julius Rosenwald
  • As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law. -- Norman Lamm
  • I bare witness that our living hope is in Jesus Christ.. I testify that with Christ, darkness cannot succeed. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future. -- Ban Ki-moon
  • Living the gospel and standing in holy places is not always easy, but I testify that it is worth it. -- Bonnie L. Oscarson
  • Anytime you testify you have some amount of increase or the other, God does not want you to get satisfied -- Sunday Adelaja
  • I testify that bad days come to an end, that faith always triumphs, and that heavenly promises are always kept. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
  • I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that. -- Erica Jong
  • How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around! -- Michel de Montaigne
  • Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them. -- Elizabeth Prentiss
  • I testify that each one of us can feel the Lord's inspiration as we live worthily and strive to serve Him. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • Stop screamin', you know the demon said it's best to die, And even if Jehovah witness, bet he'll never testify, D'Evils... -- Jay-Z
  • Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.) -- Mark Twain
  • The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify. -- J. B. Bury
  • I testify of the great blessing of children and of the happiness they will bring us in this life and in the eternities, -- Neil L. Andersen
  • The devil sought to destroy me and discredit my testimony. But God wanted me where I would testify to others about his saving power. -- Shirley Corder
  • I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II, -- Audrey Hepburn
  • Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. -- R. A. Torrey
  • I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems. -- M. C. Escher
  • Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing. -- Olavo De Carvalho
  • And sometimes you held somebody's hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify to that fact. -- Rainbow Rowell
  • No one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that he loves each of us--insecuritie s, anxieties, self-image, and all. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
  • As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth. -- Edward Abbey
  • The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was the way of salvation. -- Alistair Begg
  • I don't know why it's so hard to believe women. You to go Saudi Arabia and you need two women to testify against a man. Here you need 25. -- Jay Leno
  • Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity -- James A. Baldwin
  • I testify that our teacher, our shepherd, is Christ, our best friend, who clears up all our doubts. He heals our wounds and turns our pain into sweet experiences. -- Horacio A. Tenorio
  • I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends -- Neal A. Maxwell
  • I have been informed repeatedly that in lieu of records, I would be expected to testify about my service in the White House to demonstrate my experience and judicial philosophy, -- Harriet Miers
  • The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body. -- Roger Scruton
  • As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity. -- Kingsley Amis
  • We look to our pastors and priests and rabbis and counselors of all kinds to testify of the enduring principles upon which our society is built: honesty, charity, integrity and family. -- Mitt Romney
  • As an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, I testify to you this day that the time will come when every one of us will look into the Savior's loving eyes. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils. -- Theodor Adorno
  • Jack Abramoff is going to testify against some of the other weasels in Congress. A lobbyist testifying against congressmen? How many Bibles are going to burst into flames in that courtroom? -- Jay Leno
  • Anyone involved with songwriting will testify to the fact that each song, no matter how pure or from the heart, has its own story, its own peculiar way of getting written. -- C. Sigman
  • Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities. -- Steig Larsson
  • I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify. -- Jeff Gannon
  • It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree. -- Joseph J. Ellis
  • When you call me close to tell me your body is not beautiful I want to summon the eyes and hidden mouths of stone and light and water to testify against you. -- Leonard Cohen
  • May God enable me to have a single eye and a simple heart, desiring to please God, to do good to my fellow creatures, and testify my gratitude to my adorable Redeemer. -- William Wilberforce
  • Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear. -- Edmund Landau
  • Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late. -- Stephen Richards
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