Quotes About Trial

Jury: A group of twelve people selected to decide who has the better lawyer.

And now, I, Moroni, would speak somewhat concerning these things; I would show unto the world that faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith. (Ether 12:4–6.)

Progress through cautious, well founded experiments.

Many inventors fail because they do not distinguish between planning and experimenting. The

You'll get a fair trial by court martial, and you'll be shot immediately afterwards. The day after tomorrow we shall probably start court-martialling traitors in batches of twenty.

Even if we confine our thinking to this life, it is true that God never touches the heart with a trial without intending to bestow a greater gift or compassionate blessing. The person who knows how to wait has grown to an exceptional degree in God's grace.

"I'll be judge, I'll be jury," said cunning old Fury;"I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death."

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through anonymous traitors any honest citizen may be exiled or banished without a hearing, without a trial?

I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system should always take into consideration the special knowledge as to the facts in a case which only the trial judge possesses.

I never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family's legacy. When people say that divorce can be more painful than death, I understand why. But like any great trial, God uses everything for good, if we allow Him to heal us.

Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems.

Creativity isn't about wild talent as much as it's about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't. It's a pure numbers game.

My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.

All we know so far is what doesn't work.

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.

When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.

Never give up on an idea simply because it is bad and doesn't work.

I'm gonna see how this works out, but I think it's a bad idea.

The average juror is not Mr. Spock. If he were, then a trial-court judge's job would be much easier. He could instruct the jury in broad strokes - instructing only as to the bare elements of the crime, perhaps - and be confident that the jury would deduce all of the finer-grained implications that must logically follow.