Attest Quotes

#1. I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.

James Joyce

#2. Archery is definitely easier outside, as I can attest after that one time I tried target practice in my father's throne room. And driving the sun ... well, that's not really an indoor sport either.

Rick Riordan

#3. I'll gladly identify myself if you'll first simply explain what it is I'm identifying myself as. This is my position. You're requiring me to attest to facts I do not possess. The term for this is "duress."

David Foster Wallace

#4. It's fair to characterise me as competitive and determined, but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership.

Irene Rosenfeld

#5. I've always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that - she was always concerned about me academically.

David Ulevitch

#6. My toughest criticism usually comes from myself. As my editor can attest to, I'm never done tweaking a book until the production department has to rip it from my hands!

Kresley Cole

#7. I've always believed phone calls from kids must be allowed if mothers are to feel welcome in the workplace, as anyone who has worked in my chambers can attest.

Sonia Sotomayor

#8. The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe.

Hugh Miller

#9. As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.

Buzz Aldrin

#10. Jerry shifted the clipboard to his side as he rested his fists on his hips, as though to attest to his in-chargeness.

Nina Post

#11. As a mother, anyone who has a teenager can attest to being really excited when they have something positive to be putting their energy into. They have so much energy, and it can go in the wrong direction.

Lea Thompson

#12. Anyone who knows me will attest that at any time during the day, you are most likely to find me picking tayberries, 'deadheading' peppermint, or succession-planting shallots. There is almost nothing, really, that I would rather do.

Andrew Weil

#13. But, as Bruce Wayne will attest...you have to spend money to make money.

Bruce Wayne

#14. As my wife will attest, I do not shop casually.

George Vecsey

#15. Dancing?", ventured Portia. "I do so prefer dancing to suffering, don't you, Nerissa?"
"You speak as if one must choose one over another. For every gentleman who has turned you around a ballroom can attest, dancing and suffering can be partners in step.

Christopher Moore

#16. Listening to your internal guidance system will lead to a rich, fulfilled, happy life. That's been my experience ... and millions of folks can attest to it in their own lives as well.

Shakti Gawain

#17. Many of our problems come from having too much: rapid technological disruption, junk food, traditions that tell us the way we're supposed to live our lives. We're soft, entitled, and scared of conflict. Great times are great softeners. Abundance can be its own obstacle, as many people can attest.

Ryan Holiday

#18. A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#19. Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.

Philip Yancey

#20. She called me 'my lady,' " she told him in a plaintive voice. "I don't know who that is. I'm no lady." The last of his fury faded away to be replaced with a quick gleam. He peered under the sheet. "I can attest to that.

Thea Harrison

#21. It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

Mark Udall

#22. I admire the artists that work everyday to attest things for themselves ... In the act of transforming the objects of the everyday they transform the passage of time and analyze the economics and politics of the instruments of living.

Gabriel Orozco

#23. Take care of problems at home and don't let them build up on you; you won't be at your best. I have felt this personally in my life and can attest to the truthfulness of these words.

Cameron West

#24. I've seen myself do stuff on stage that was pretty amazing. I think that would be true for any athlete. Any top athlete will see something that they are very proud of. All my injuries will attest to the fact that besides being a musician, it comes down to being an athlete.

Paul Stanley

#25. I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

Jackson Browne

#26. I'm fascinated by offensive subject matter. Always have been. It is very natural to me, as any teach I've ever had growing up could attest.

Anthony Jeselnik

#27. Most of us are content to exist and breed and fight for the right to do both, and the dominant idea, the foredoomed attest to control one's destiny, is reserved for the fortunate or unfortunate few.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#28. The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

Joseph Addison

#29. Christianity has its roots in the deep, firm soil of history. Jesus' incarnation - God invading human history with His presence in the form of man - is on the record. Every time you write the date, you attest to the fact that God entered human history.

Billy Graham

#30. Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ear to carve a volume into the void of darkness. The space traced by the ear becomes a cavity sculpted in the interior of the mind.

Steven Holl

#31. The Latin term pro bono, as most attorneys will attest, roughly translated means for boneheads and applies to work done without charge.

Sue Grafton

#32. Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

Lord Byron

#33. We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.

Charles Evans Hughes

#34. I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.

Marianne Williamson

#35. a secondary effect of being angry, which was recently discovered by researchers, is that we become more certain of our judgments. When we're angry, we know we're right, as anyone who has been in a relationship can attest.

Chip Heath

#36. Civil war tends to give a helping hand to the velocity of currency, Ukraine can attest to that. However, it is quite an unpleasant way to find the intrinsic value of worthlessness.

Tom Wallace

#37. Let your passion serve as your energy source to keep you going. I can attest that you will be happier, healthier, and more successful at it.

Anna Agoncillo

#38. Like this cake. It's really very good. (Arik)
As the girth to my hips will attest. (Geary)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#39. I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers. I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.

Alan Chambers

#40. I can attest to the fact that life is more fun if you can ignore outside opinions.

DAIGO UMEHARA

#41. Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

Ambrose Bierce

#42. Any writer can attest that in the luckiest, happiest state, the words are not coming from you, but through you.

Zoe Kazan

#43. As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly believe in, but I can also attest to the trauma encountered from combat on the battlefield.

Charles B. Rangel

#44. Just in case you thought elephants were all sweetness, I can attest to the fact that this one had the time of her life scaring the bejeezus out of those dudes.

James Patterson

#45. As those who have learned to rule their own mind will attest, misfortune is a state of mind long before it becomes a miserable circumstance.

Guy Finley

#46. To set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world.

Marie-Antoine Careme

#47. As any two people who have ever dressed in matching pajamas will attest, it was surprisingly effective.

Michael Chabon

#48. Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest.

Robert Gottlieb

#49. You can be a great man and still be a fool. Many of our country's leaders can attest to that. Were they still living.

Rachel E. Carter

#50. The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, mythology, and art even to be entertained - as the beliefs, rituals, and iconography of each of our religions attest to centuries of crosspollination among them.

Sam Harris

#51. As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

George Aiken

#52. Memoirs of the North Africa campaign attest that, fierce and brutal as much of the fighting was, relations between individual enemies retained a quality of forbearance that seems, today, almost impossible to imagine. This

Steven Pressfield

#53. The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our history abundantly attest.

Charles Evans Hughes

#54. As many citizens can attest, the U.S. is a great place to get sick, but a terrible place to stay well. This requires a shift in the way both doctors and patients approach health maintenance and disease prevention.

Rob Wittman

#55. The statements of four witnesses of unquestioned integrity, traveling with me that day, attest that such comments were never made and confirm that it simply did not happen.

Paul Crouch

#56. I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor, and I think you can find Negro leaders in the State who will attest to this fact.

Strom Thurmond