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Quotes About Trial

He is not truly patient who will only suffer as far as seems right to him and from whom he pleases. The truly patient man considers not by whom he is tried, one above him, or by an equal, or by an inferior, whether by a good and holy man or by a perverse and unworthy, but from every creature. He gratefully accepts all from the hand of God and counts it gain.
~ Thomas a Kempis
He who seeks anything but God alone and the salvation of his soul will find only trouble and grief, and he who does not try to become the least, the servant of all, cannot remain at peace for long. You have come to serve, not to rule. You must understand, too, that you have been called to suffer and to work, not to idle and gossip away your time. Here men are tried as gold in a furnace. Here no man can remain unless he desires with all his heart to humble himself before God.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Trial by jury, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, will be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
~ Thomas Denman (Lord Denman)
We are looking for ways where you can have a sandbox, where you have a restricted environment within which people can try new things, and I can try new rules. And depending on what works, then I open up the sandbox, and it becomes the new rule for the whole system.
~ Lee Hsien Loong
Gandhi gave a statement at his trial. "I am endeavoring to show to my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that as evil can only be sustained by violence, withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence," he said.
~ Nicholson Baker
Kevin floated a trial idea. To him the protesters at the front gate were the equivalent of the protesters outside abortion clinics. The Rock Hudsons tried to stop people coming here the same way do-gooders tried to block people going to murder their unborn kids. The irony was in how those same rescued babies got adopted by Rock Hudsons. Kevin
~ Chuck Palahniuk
They planned to fail early and inexpensively in the search for the market for a disruptive technology. They found that their markets generally coalesced through an iterative process of trial, learning, and trial again.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
When the white arm rests upon the knee it is a triangle; now it is upright - a column; now a fountain, falling. It makes no sign, it does not beckon, it does not see us. Behind it roars the sea. It is beyond our reach. Yet there I venture. There I go to replenish my emptiness, to stretch my nights and fill them fuller and fuller with dreams. And for a second even now, even here, I reach my object and say, "Wander no more. All is trial and make-believe. Here is the end.
~ Virginia Woolf
We were full of experiments and reforms, we were going to do without table napkins. Everything was going to be new, everything was going to be different. Everything was on trial.
~ Virginia Woolf
We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
~ Larry Dixon
The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.
~ LaToya Jackson
He appointed his cousin, Álvaro de Mesquita, as judge presiding over an exhaustive trial.
~ Laurence Bergreen
sentenced the other accused—in all, forty men—to death.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Thomas Appletree, who had fired the shot, was condemned to death by hanging
~ Laurence Bergreen
If jurors were looking for a way to come back finding for the UKA, Mays had given it to them. Senator Michael Figures made the plaintiff's final arguments. He had been there on Herndon Street the morning of the lynching, and he had seen Donald's body hanging from a tree. He had been
~ Laurence Leamer
The danger of contacts of any kind was exposed in 1970 by the arrest, trial and subsequent acquittal of Will Owen, the 68-year-old Labour MP for Morpeth, on Official Secrets charges. Owen, who headed a travel firm specialising in visits to East Germany, was also a member of Parliament's Estimates Committee, and he was charged with giving Czech intelligence information of a confidential nature.
~ Chapman Pincher
I went to work for the union around the time all this was going on, right after Jimmy got the president's job. After the wiretap trial everybody was saying they didn't make a parachute big enough to save Bobby Kennedy's ass when he jumped off the Capitol.
~ Charles Brandt
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
~ Charles de Gaulle
Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.
~ Charles Dickens
That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short , that there never more could be , for them or theirs , any laying of heads upon pillows at all , unless the prisioner's head was taken off. The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay
~ Charles Dickens
The Judge, whose eyes had gone in the general direction, recalled them, leaned back in his seat, and looked steadily at the man whose life was in his hand, as Mr. Attorney-General rose to spin the rope, grind the axe, and hammer the nails into the scaffold.
~ Charles Dickens
Mr. Stryver then called his few witnesses, and Mr. Cruncher had next to attend while Mr. Attorney-General turned the whole suit of clothes Mr. Stryver had fitted on the jury, inside out; showing how Barsad and Cly were even a hundred times better than he had thought them, and the prisoner a hundred times worse. Lastly, came my Lord himself, turning the suit of clothes, now inside out, now outside in, but on the whole decidedly trimming and shaping them into grave-clothes for the prisoner.
~ Charles Dickens
She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.
~ Charles Dickens
When the Attorney-General ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was soon to become.
~ Charles Dickens