Quotes About Trial

My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good.

It's a lot easier to figure out how to scale something that doesn't feel like it would scale than it is to figure out what is actually gonna work. You're much better off going after something that will work that doesn't scale, then trying to figure how to scale it up, than you are trying to figure it all out.

Had 'Dhruva' not succeeded, I don't mind calling these films experimental.

Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.

In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge.

I make a lot of mistakes. One time I mixed dark blue and black in a suit.

I didn't know why God had chose me for this ordeal, but I was somehow suited to it and knew that I would see it through to the end.

To love is also good, for love is hard. Love berween one person and another: that is perhaps the hardest thing it is laid on us to do, the utmost, the ultimate trial and test, the work for which all other work is just preparation. For this reason young people, who are beginners in everything, do not yet know how to love: they must learn. With their whole being, with all their strength, concerted on their solitary fearful, upward beating hearts, they have to learn to love.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by six.

And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right.

Life is trying things to see if they work.

It is strange to think that, I won't say liberty, but the mere liberalism of outlook which for us is a matter of words, of ambitions, of votes (and if of feeling at all, then of the sort of feeling which leaves our deepest affections untouched), may be for other beings very much like ourselves and living under the same sky, a heavy trial of fortitude, a matter of tears and anguish and blood.

O youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! To me she was not an old rattle-trap carting about the world a lot of coal for a freight--to me she was the endeavour, the test, the trial of life. I think of her with pleasure, with affection, with regret--as you would think of someone dead you have loved. I shall never forget her. . . . Pass the bottle.

The case against Clevinger was open and shut. The only thing missing was something to charge him with.

Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!

But [as for me personally] it matters very little to me that I should be put on trial by you [on this point], and that you or any other human tribunal should investigate and question and cross-question me, I do not even put myself on trial and judge myself. (1 Corinthians 4:3)

Hebrews 6:19 tells us that hope is the anchor of the soul. Hope is the force that keeps us steady in a time of trial.

The Bible] tells us that hope is the anchor of the soul. Hope is the force that keeps us steady in a time of trial. Don't ever stop hoping. If you do, you're going to have a miserable life.

It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right.

Have you stopped the trial?" the duchess said. "Stopped the trial!" he expostulated. "My dear duchess, it would take the prince or God to stop this trial." "They will have to settle for Lady Thornton," the dowager snapped.

All poetry is experimental poetry.

For just as surely as man begins to trust in his own abilities, so surely has he taken the first step on the road to ultimate failure. And the greatest grace God can give such a man is to send him a trial he cannot bear with his own powers—and then sustain him with his grace so he may endure to the end and be saved.

Creí comprender lo que sintió san Pedro cuando sobrevivió a sus negaciones y recuperó su amistad con Cristo. Porque es verdad que, cuando el hombre empieza a confiar en sus propias capacidades, acaba de dar el primer paso en el camino hacia el fracaso final. Y la mayor gracia que Dios puede concederle es enviarle una prueba que no sea capaz de soportar con sus propias fuerzas… y sostenerlo con su gracia para que pueda perseverar hasta el final y salvarse.