Quotes About Trial

So here is another shard of truth, which we must accept if we are to make sense of the trial: faith in our courts and our laws, in the statement chiseled above the columns of the U.S. Supreme Court building - 'Equal Justice Under Law' - can obscure the obvious, particularly with the passage of time. There was no equal justice, no universal protection of law in the Mississippi Delta, certainly not in 1955.

That is the surprising, compelling mathematics of innovation: if you want more success, you have to be prepared to shrug off more failure.

almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.

We may pass through the fiery furnace, we may pass through deep waters, but we shall not be consumed nor overwhelmed. We shall emerge from these trials and difficulties better and purer for them if we only trust in God.

This is folly, Tyrion,' declared Lord Tywin. 'Speak to the matter at hand. You are not on trial for being a dwarf. 'That is where you err, my lord. I have been on trial for being a dwarf my entire life.

And Arya, well . . . Ned's visitors would oft mistake her for a stableboy if they rode into the yard unannounced. Arya was a trial, it must be said. Half a boy and half a wolf pup.

Arya was a trial, it must be said. Half a boy and half a wolf pup. Forbid her anything and it became her heart's desire. She had Ned's long face, and brown hair that always looked as though a bird had been nesting in it. I despaired of ever making a lady of her. She collected scabs as other girls collected dolls, and would say anything that came into her head. I think that she must be dead too.

Nothing but this: I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had." He turned to face the hall, that sea of pale faces. "I wish I had enough poison for you all. You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is. I am innocent, but I will get no justice here. You leave me no choice but to appeal to the gods. I demand trial by battle.

You have another choice, though," Prince Baelor said quietly. "Whether it is a better choice or a worse one, I cannot say, but I remind you that any knight accused of a crime has the right to demand trial by combat. So I ask you once again, Ser Duncan the Tall—how good a knight are you? Truly?

Not all risks lead to ruin.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

Let the judges answer to the question of law, and the jurors to the matter of fact.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.

In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

The history of medicine is a story of amazing foolishness and amazing intelligence.

What's important is finding out what works for you.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.