“I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.” MeanHomeLawSawsCrimeNeededProtectTownsVictimProtectionCrownsAttorneyHome TownNova ScotiaNovas Author:Peter MacKay
“From the onset, I saw victims on both ends of the gun. I will mourn my son's death for the rest of my life. Now, however, my grief has been transformed into a powerful commitment to change. Change is urgently needed in a society where children kill children.” ChildrenHas BeensEndsPowerfulGriefSawsSonNeededGunCommitmentVictimMy SonTransformedMourn Author:Azim Khamisa
“In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.” WritingLooksI CanSongActingSawsVictimAutobiographyActing OutChuckles Author:Boy George
“I was an adult and I was in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was performing in this cave - they used to bury the plague victims in these caves underneath the streets of Edinburgh, when I got this weird cold sensation up my spine, it gave me this really weird feeling, and then I looked up and there was this white, sudden white shape, that just zapped from me and went straight to the light that was at the back of the room, and I just stopped cold and said to the audience, "Did you guys see that?" No one saw it.” SaidFeelingsLightUsedGuyWhiteRoomsAudienceSawsStreetsColdShapesAdultsVictimPerformingSensationsCavesFestivalsPlagueFringeSpineReally WeirdEdinburghWeird Feeling Author:Rhys Darby
“Mr. Stock came out of the competition tent carrying his zeppelin marrow on one shoulder and demanding to know what was going on. When he saw the hordes advancing on Aidan, he charged off that way, whirling the great vegetable. The Puck, who was rushing behind the horde, yelling at them to grab Aidan and kill Rolf, was Mr. Stock's first victim. The marrow caught him THOCK! on the side of the head. It laid the Puck out cold on the grass, but the mighty vegetable remained intact, mottled and glossy” KnowsWayFirstsSidesBehindsSawsColdVictimCompetitionCaughtShouldersGrassVegetablesRushingYellingAdvancingTentsZeppelinsPuckHordeMarrow Author:Diana Wynne Jones
“The Minotaur unstrapped his axe and swung it around. It was beautiful in a harsh I’m~going~togut~you~like~a~fish kind of way. Each of its twin blades was shaped like an omega: Ω—the last letter of the Greek alphabet. Maybe that was because the axe would be the last thing his victims ever saw” WayKindWould BeLastsBeautifulSawsLettersVictimGreekTwinsHarshBladesAlphabetMinotaur Author:Rick Riordan
“Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims....and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But - how can I put this? I'm almost......drawn to them.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsHelpingRunningNightSufferingMy OwnSawsStreetsCryTvsVictimHelping OthersInnocentAnguishBosniaInnocent VictimsGetting Fired Author:Morrie Schwartz
“It's still hard for me to talk about the day I visited a shelter for children who were victims of a domestic-violence household. The kinds of abuse they had suffered, and what it had done to them physically and emotionally ?- I don't have words for what I saw. This has to stop.” KindChildrenStillsHardDoneSawsViolenceAbuseVictimHouseholdShelterDomestic Violence Author:Michael Dean Crapo
“I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.” LiteratureSawsBloodVictimAccidentsDrawingSurgeryEmergenciesDrawing Blood Book:Travels Source: Travels
“I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.” HeartStoriesSawsChangedCommunicationTransformationVictimPrisonOutlookImprisonment Author:Fernando Flores
“I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.” MenFirstsSufferingDiesSawsVictimGreat MenAffectedRecallsReefs Book:Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition] Source: Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]