Quotes About Trial

The four most miserable years of my life . . .

I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

These are the times that try men's souls.

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

If at first you don't succeed, try two more times so that your result is statistically significant.

No leader lives a day without criticism, and humility will never be more on trial than when criticism comes.

I do not propose that everyone in Guantanamo or its evil twin at Bagram is innocent. I just don't believe we should incarcerate people without trial and torture them or facilitate and profit from their torture.

The network made me join Twitter. I am very scared of social media, and I don't know how to use it, so it's kind of trial and error.

Innovation is like looking for pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. You have to find a lot of pieces that don't match to find the one or two pieces that match.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

I am convinced that, because the criminal justice system is run by humans, it is naturally subject to human error. There is no rational basis to believe that this same type of human error will not infect capital murder trials.

Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn't work, and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet... Ultimately, you become commercially successful.

I have done over 50 years in politics and this trial by media is unacceptable to me. Anybody can take any stand, and then run editorials... The media creates a hype, the opposition starts shouting, I sack my ministers... how do I run my government?

I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.

In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends, To reap the harvest of perpetual peace By this one bloody trial of sharp war.

Lo! A call for a bloody trial-Retribution should it hail!Whose? you ask, For he that deems it a worthy task!

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.

All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith.

Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial.

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.

I have plenty of proof of the love of God if I like to contemplate it, if I like to sit down and think about it and weigh things up. But how many of you have ever done that in the hour of trial, and found your escape that way?

The only thing that gave him away as a man on trial, rather than as a man on his way to work, were his poor fingers. He'd chewed his nails down to the soft meat and started in on his cuticles. Sweet Roy. The only thing my good man ever hurt were his own hands.

The difficulty of any trial was subjective, and there was no way to compare two individuals' experiences. And just as those whose suffering seemed greater than his should have compassion for him, so should he have compassion for those whose suffering seemed less.