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Quotes About Trial

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
~ Ann Landers
Each morning puts man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
~ Roy L. Smith
No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
~ Paul Dickson
The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.
~ Homer
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
~ Thomas A. Edison
He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
~ Syrus
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job.
~ Bible
My involvement in the Simpson criminal trial was a personal matter and did not involve Movie Tunes, its distributors or exhibitors.
~ Robert Kardashian
I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.
~ Eric Balfour
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
~ Robert Frost
You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.
~ Roy Bean
I figure it this way - if a woman claims she didn't want me to fudge her, then you already know she's a liar. So what the hell's the point of a trial, y'know?
~ Zach Braff
President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial.
~ Mitt Romney
There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.
~ Charles Guggenheim
This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.
~ William Westmoreland
Mmm, being irresistibly likeable is such a trial,' she drawled in an impeccable aristocratic whine. 'One is constantly in demand, but one must do one's duty, mustn't one, dear chap? Noblesse oblige and all that...
~ Susan Napier
The desire for regional innocence is so powerful that every single Klan witness at the Birmingham bombing trial in 2001 said under oath that he never had any bad feelings about black people.
~ Susan Neiman
You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.
~ Richard Branson
In 'Demon's Souls,' we tried to implement some features in a kind of experimental way, not being sure whether or not it would be popular, but we did it anyway so that we could see how people reacted.
~ Hidetaka Miyazaki
I have nothing against youI just learned not to trust youI know its a trial and errorBut shit, I thought I'm a solver
~ Mr. Pessimist
Arthur Nash, a Cincinnati tailor, used his near-bankrupt business as a "guinea pig" on which to test the formula. The business came to life and made a fortune for its owners.
~ Napoleon Hill
To understand how something works, figure out how to break it.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
So I disagree with the followers of Marx and and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or incentives for skill. The strategy is, then, to tinker as much as possible and try to collect as many Black Swan opportunities as you can.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb