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Quotes About Trial

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.
~ Charles Ives
In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.
~ James Madison
Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience.
~ William Shakespeare
I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
~ Thomas A. Edison
If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.
~ John Calvin
Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!
~ Joyce Meyer
The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him.
~ J.R. Miller
I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them
~ Don Meyer
As my mind changes, so do my quotes. I empathize with those who, by force, are put on trial for their own clarity of conscience. For that, we must convene by force of argument.
~ Michael Brett Turner
All poetry is experimental poetry.
~ Wallace Stevens
No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.
~ Publilius Syrus
Adversity tests the strength of endurance.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Encourage experimentation. People always have ideas that they have been wishing they had the chance to try, and they naturally generate solutions to problems they've been living with. What they seldom do, without encouragement and support, is try their ideas. Too often experimentation seems to people a risky undertaking that requires someone else's blessing. Give it yours.
~ William Bridges
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
~ William Butler Yeats
Every life spends some time in the mud. Your faith hasn't really been tried until you have spent some time in the mud.
~ William D. Watley
The grave was never intended to be a sanctuary to defend sinners from the hand of justice, but a close prison to secure them against the day of trial, that they may be forthcoming.
~ William Gurnall
So I got on with the business of lawyering away at the evidence. Minimizing it. Defending Jacob.
~ William Landay
The truth is, the best win-lost records are not built on great trial work. They are built on cherry-picking only the strongest cases for trial and pleading out the rest, regardless of the right and wrong of it.
~ William Landay
Even the wettest violence, in the end, is cooked down to the stuff of court cases; a ream of paper, a few exhibits, a dozen...witnesses. The world looks away, and why not?
~ William Landay
The truth is, the best won-lost records are not built on great trial work. They are built on cherry-picking only the strongest cases for trial and pleading out the rest, regardless of the right and wrong of it.
~ William Landay
A jury could only declare my son 'not guilty', never 'innocent'.
~ William Landay
Who among you would stand up, step out of that jury box, and trade places with me? Who would be accused of a violent murder based on…nothing? How would you prove your innocence when there was never any proof against you in the first place?
~ William Landay
choke him. They filled him with their trial and
~ William Lashner
The internet is now a forum for public prosecution.
~ David Cronenberg