Trials Quotes:

You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. I never had a trial but when I got out of the deep river I found some poor pilgrim on the bank that I was able to help by that very experience.

- A. B. Simpson

topic: Blessing, Rivers, Trials, Test Of Faith

Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.

- Aaron Broussard

source: "'We have been abandoned by our own country'". "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.alternet.org. September 4, 2005.

topic: New Orleans, Trials, Murder

Terrific. Now to win a larceny trial all we have to do is prove how the universe ends.

- Adam Schiff

topic: Winning, Trials, Ends, Larceny

If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.

- Adoniram Judson

topic: Suffering, Trials, Infinite, Infinite Love

With trials, you become wiser. You learn more about yourself and the people surrounding you. Me personally, I've never been the type of person to judge anyone over wrongdoing, no matter what it is. I'm just not a judgmental person.

- Adrian Peterson

source: "Adrian Peterson opens up on new-look Vikings, his future and finding peace". Interview with Tom Pelissero, www.usatoday.com. June 18, 2014.

topic: People, Judging, Trials, Judgmental Person, Wiser You

it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Travel, Blessing, Trials

God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Blessing, Trials, Way, Instruments Of God, God Is In Control

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

- Alan Dershowitz

topic: Doubt, Criminals, Trials, Search For Truth, Reasonable Doubt

If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.

- Alan Thicke

topic: Humorous, Thinking, Trials, Trials And Tribulations

Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.

- Albert Camus

topic: Interesting, Docks, Trials

A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.

- Albert Camus

topic: Civilization, Trials, World, Culpability, Announcing

We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.

- Alexander Herzen

topic: Believe, Soul, Trials, Ordeals

There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such seasons may be only those when our faith and patience are put on trial, so as to bring it clearly before us, whether or not, quite irrespective of all else, we are content to leave everything in the hands of God.

- Alfred Edersheim

source: Alfred Edersheim (2013). “Bible History: Old Testament”, p.510, Ravenio Books

topic: Hands, Trials, May, Faith And Patience

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

- Alice James

source: Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

topic: Loss, Reeds, Trials, Sustaining, Refinement

Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live." (Page 79.)

- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

source: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2008). “Hawksong”, p.173, Delacorte Press

topic: Mother, Men, Trials, Innocent Man

Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations, Weak people, many a times, do not even realize how low they have sunk.

- Amish Tripathi

topic: Strong, People, Trials, Trials And Tribulations, Weak People

In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.

- Anais Nin

topic: Trials, Scene, Accusation

At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.

- Andre Breton

topic: Beautiful, Opposites, Trials, Young And Beautiful

A fair trial would have been no trial at all.

- Angela Davis

topic: Trials, Fair Trial

I think being called a she-devil by a trial lawyer is meant as a compliment.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Thinking, Devil, Trials, Trial Lawyers

Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.

- Ann Rule

topic: Hate, Trials

The world is such a marvel-it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the right thing, it always provided you with salvation.

- Anna Godbersen

topic: Trials, World, Salvation

When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.

- Anthony S. Fauci

topic: Responsibility, Drug, Trials, Clinical Trials, Profit Margin

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial.

- Antonio Munoz Molina

topic: Self, Doubt, Trials

Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.

- Ariel Sharon

source: "Clashes mar Mid-East inquiry", news.bbc.co.uk. March 25, 2001.

topic: Israel, People, Trials, Zionist, Zionism

If they don't have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, 'I don't want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers ... if they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Men, Special, Trials, Special Interests, Trial Lawyers

Every sinner is now on trial once for all. He is now invited by the bleeding Saviour, urged by all the horrors of hell, to enter heaven. But death closes the possibility for ever.

- Asahel Nettleton

topic: Heaven, Trials, Bleeding

Ylli, Agron and Mehmet were never given a fair and public trial, an opportunity to defend themselves, or any semblance of due process. Their post-conflict, extrajudicial killing was cold-blooded murder.

- Avis Bohlen

topic: Opportunity, Trials, Cold, Cold Blooded

Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

- Ayad Allawi

topic: Country, Names, Trials

If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie.

- Barry S. Strauss

topic: Lying, Numbers, Trials

I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.

- Beanie Sigel

topic: Thinking, Trials, Gangsters

I hope that you will be asked to participate in a trial at some stage in your disease

- Ben Goldacre

topic: Trials, Disease, Stage

If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.

- Ben Goldacre

source: "Ben Goldacre: 'It's appalling ... like phone hacking or MPs' expenses'". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

topic: Years, Use, Trials, Medical Research, Clinicals

The whole trial seemed surreal.

- Bernhard Goetz

source: "Interview with "Subway Vigilante" Bernhard Goetz". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 17, 2004.

topic: Trials, Surreal

In this world of Maya, which is averse to the Lord, full of trials and tribulations, only patience, humility and respect for others are our friends for Hari bhajana.

- Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati

topic: Humility, Trials, World

It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

- Bill James

topic: People, Trials, Radio, Fair Trial

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

- Bill McCollum

source: "Senate impeachment trial: questions and answers, day two". www.cnn.com. January 23, 1999.

topic: Criminals, Trials, Matter, False Accusation

No matter what trials we face, Christ never leaves us. He is with us every step of the way!

- Billy Graham

topic: Trials, Matter, Way

Your trials can release your Gifts and Dreams. Your trials can set you free.

- Bo Sanchez

topic: Dream, Trials, Release

I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.

- Bob Matsui

topic: Umpires, Parent, Trials, Deceased

In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.

- Bob Ney

topic: Years, Trials, Safe, Monetary, Food Industry

Don't be afraid to scrape the paint off and do it again. This is the way you learn, trial and error, over and over, repetition. It pays you great dividends, great, great dividends.

- Bob Ross

topic: Errors, Trials, Pay

At the extremity of hardship comes relief and at the tightening of the chains of trials and tribulations comes ease.

- Boonaa Mohammed

topic: Relief, Trials, Hardship

Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.

- Boyd K. Packer

topic: Temptation, Needs, Trials, Trials And Temptations

Your life is a lot bigger than this moment. You need to remember that you can't let the trials you face right now derail your course forever.

- Bree Despain

source: Bree Despain (2012). “The Savage Grace”, p.30, Carolrhoda Lab ™

topic: Forever, Needs, Trials

All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.

- Brennan Manning

topic: Errors, Trial And Error, Trials, Silliness

This joy that He brings us transcends every human trial, it is a joy that can strengthen even the weakest of hands

- Brenton Brown

topic: Hands, Joy, Trials

All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent beings to pass through, to gain their glory and exaltation. Every calamity that can come upon mortal beings will be suffered ... to prepare them to enjoy the presence of the Lord. ... Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.

- Brigham Young

source: Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”, p.150

topic: Intelligent, Crowns, Trials

Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.

- Brigham Young

topic: Spiritual, Trials, Salvation

This bill would allow an employee to bring a claim against an employer decades after the alleged initial act of discrimination occurred. Trial lawyers, you can be sure, are salivating at this very prospect.

- Buck McKeon

topic: Trials, Bills, Lawyer, Employment Discrimination, Trial Lawyers

A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.

- Byron White

topic: Order, Government, Trials, Jurors, Trial By Jury

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

- Carl Lewis

topic: Courage, Challenges, Trials

Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.

- Charles Darwin

topic: Love Life, Desert, Trials, Life Without Love

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.

- Charles Guggenheim

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: War, Trying, Trials, Geneva, Geneva Convention

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Joy, Contentment, Trials

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Teaching, Trials, Soil

When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Trials, Sovereignty, Sovereignty Of God

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Heart, Trials, Trouble, Spades, Great Hearts

FAITH untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Long, Trials, May, Little Faith

Mighty prayer has often been produced by mighty trial.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Prayer, Trials

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Soldier, Trials, Affliction, Great Veterans Day

In heaven we shall see that we had not one trial too many.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Heaven, Trials

You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope.

- Charles Stanley

source: Charles Stanley (2009). “Stanley 2in1 Source of My Strength and Finding Peace”, p.22, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Long, Trials, Hardship

It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Trials, Hardship, Response

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Heartache, Trials, Tests

God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony.

- Christine Caine

topic: Past, Trials, Tests, Undaunted, God Is Able

I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.

- Christopher Darden

topic: Selfish, Trials, Realizing, Selfish Reasons

There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence.

- Christopher Pike

topic: Judging, Would Be, Trials, One Sentence

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

- Clarence Darrow

topic: Real, Trying, Trials, Trial Lawyers

Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

- Clarence Darrow

topic: Trials, Rich, Poor, Rich And Poor

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Men, Trials, Inspirational Achievement, Inspirational Adversity

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

- Connie Willis

topic: Trials, Guilty

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

- Constance Baker Motley

topic: Criminals, Alabama, Trials

I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.

- Cordell Hull

topic: America, Triumph, Trials

We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.

- Craig Johnston

topic: Games, Boss, Trials, Middlesbrough, Leeds

If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?

- Craig Shirley

topic: Past, Trials

Never regret anything you have been through, because only with those trials will you become a better person the next day.

- Crystal Hunt

topic: Regret, Challenges, Trials, Never Regret Anything

I am stronger than my trials.

- Dan Wells

source: Dan Wells (2012). “Partials (Partials, Book 1)”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

topic: Stronger, Trials

There is a weirdness about having a famous pre-pubescent in the house when you are going through the trials and tribulations of adolescence.

- Danny Bonaduce

topic: House, Trials, Weirdness, Trials And Tribulations

We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.

- David Boies

source: "CBS's Dickerson Questions 'Claim' That California Judge in Prop 8 Ruling Openly Gay". www.newsbusters.org. August 9, 2010.

topic: Prejudice, Trials, Lost

I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.

- David Guterson

topic: Growing Up, Trials, Literature

It's about the climate-change "denial industry", ...we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg.

- David Roberts

topic: War, Climate, Trials, War Crimes, Climate Change Denial

The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth.

- David Rosenfelt

source: David Rosenfelt (2011). “One Dog Night: An Andy Carpenter Novel”, p.99, Minotaur Books

topic: Believe, Ideas, Trials

Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is built. That is only when it is displayed. The habits that direct our lives and form our character are fashioned in the often uneventful, commonplace routine of life.

- Delbert L. Stapley

topic: Character, Routine, Trials, Great Moments, Workshops

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.

- Dennis Hastert

topic: Judging, Trials, Matter, Trial Lawyers

I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial.

- Dennis Kozlowski

topic: Trials, Firsts, Should, Should Have Known

Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case and the Oppenheimer hearings; certainly one saw it in the trial of Oscar Wilde.

- Diana Trilling

topic: Running, Defense, Trials, Backlash

I think it's a complete injustice, the way it's (the trial) being done

- Dionne Warwick

topic: Thinking, Done, Trials

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

topic: Basketball, Trials, Calm

Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.

- Donald Antrim

source: Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

topic: Loss, Choices, Trials

The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.

- Donella Meadows

topic: Jobs, Trials, Sides, Jury, Grand Jury

I did get to go to the Olympic trials in '88 and '92. I was 7th and 11th, so I didn't place high enough to go to the games, but, still, it was a blast.

- Dot Jones

source: "'Glee': Dot-Marie Jones talks the never-been-kissed Coach Beiste". Interview with Tim Stack, www.ew.com. November 10, 2010.

topic: Games, Trials, Enough

the judge in the Saddam trial appears to be wearing comedy specs and moustache.

- Eddie Mair

topic: Judging, Trials, Comedy

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

topic: Inspirational, Trials, Absence, Incessant, Proximity

Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to which the agent is subjected in his preparation.

- Edward Thomson

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 585, 1895.

topic: Preparation, Important, Trials

Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

topic: Disappointment, Shadow, Trials, Redeemer

I was there when God was put on trial....At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'. It means 'He owes us something'. Then we went to pray.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Mean, Holocaust, Trials

Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know.

- Elizabeth Gaskell

topic: Thinking, Trials, Rich

Life is a journey for us all. We all face trials. We all have ups and downs. All of us are human. But we are also the masters of our fate. We are the ones who decide how we are going to react to life.

- Elizabeth Smart

topic: Fate, Journey, Trials, Life Is A Journey

I'm really concerned that too-big-to-fail has become too-big-for-trial.

- Elizabeth Warren

topic: Trials, Failing, Bigs

In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors

- Eoin MacNeill

topic: Judging, History, Trials, Jailer, Punisher

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

- Epictetus

topic: Opportunity, Inward, Trials, Submerged

The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history.

- Ernst Zundel

topic: Gone, Trials, Canadian History

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

- Estelle

topic: Character, Fire, Trials, Wellspring

The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences.

- Evander Holyfield

source: "'Mama's whippings meant I didn't wind up like Tyson'". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2008.

topic: Stories, Trials, Way, Trials And Tribulations

An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer.

- Evelle J. Younger

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Years, Law, Trials

I was not using the gears I usually do for time trials - it was either hard [gear] to pedal, or really low [gear] to pedal; [that] was something special of today.

- Fabian Cancellara

topic: Special, Gears, Trials, Pedals

Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Prayer, Trials, Patient

Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10 to the 40,000 power, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup.

- Fred Hoyle

source: "Evolution from Space". Book by Chandra Wickramasinghe and Fred Hoyle, 1981.

topic: Two, Trials, Enzymes

Peace of heart - without it, no good can make us happy. With it, every trial, even the approach of death, can be borne.

- Frederic Ozanam

topic: Happiness, Heart, Trials, Peace Of Heart

Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.

- Gabrielle Giffords

source: Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly (2011). “Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

topic: Yards, Trials, Inches

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

- Gail Sheehy

topic: Family, Children, Trials, Parenthood Funny, New Parents

Have you ever seen a witness? That's what she called herself. Not a ghost, those don't exist, and not an angel, those do, but a witness." "No." "Ever heard the term?" "Outside of a legal trial, no.

- Gena Showalter

topic: Angel, Trials, Ghost

Somebody needs to kill my trial attorney.

- George Harris

topic: Needs, Trials, Attorney

That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.

- George Mason

topic: Men, Trials, Sacred, Trial By Jury

The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials.

- George Muller

topic: Faith, Strong, Trials, Strong Faith, Great Faith

The greater the trial, the sweeter the victory.

- George Muller

topic: Victory, Trials

Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.

- George Muller

topic: Trials, Obstacles, Sometimes

if we hold fast our confidence in Him, but our faith is also, by the exercise, strengthened: and so it comes, that, if we walk with God in any measure of uprightness of heart, the trials of faith will be greater and greater.

- George Muller

topic: Heart, Exercise, Trials, Walking With God, Hold Fast

In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by His grace to trust Him He has always appeared for my help. I delight in speaking well of His name.

- George Muller

topic: Names, Grace, Trials, Speaking Well

No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will.

- George Q. Cannon

topic: Desert, Trials, Affliction

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

- Gerald R. Ford

source: State of the Union Address, January 19, 1975.

topic: Confusion, Progress, Trials

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

- Geraldine Ferraro

topic: Aggravation, Trials, Lawyer, Trial Lawyers

Often trials and tribulations are allowed to come into our lives because of what we are doing right.

- Glenn L. Pace

topic: Trials, Trials And Tribulations, Tribulation

My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.

- Grover Cleveland

topic: Presidential, Trials

We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.

- Grover Norquist

source: "Grover Norquist: The Soul of the New Machine" by Michael Scherer, www.motherjones.com. January 2004.

topic: Teacher, House, Trials, Redistricting, Teachers Unions

Let us remember: trials are an evidence of a Father's love.

- H. Burke Peterson

source: H. Burke Peterson (1986). “A glimpse of glory”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

topic: Father, Trials, Remember

I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

- Hari Kunzru

source: "Why I quoted from The Satanic Verses" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.

topic: Rights, Records, Trials, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay

A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.

- Harlan Coben

topic: Two, Attention, Trials

The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

- Harlan F. Stone

topic: Law, Trials, Causes, Trial By Jury

[On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is, either to sink under the trial, or to be made callous by it. The best is, to be as wise as is possible under a great disability, and as happy as is possible under a great privation.

- Harriet Martineau

topic: Wise, Views, Trials

A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.

- Harry Browne

topic: Judging, Trials, Assumption, Fair Trial, Competent

If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?

- Hermann Goring

topic: Trials, Sense Of Humor, Goering

The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

- Herodotus

topic: Long, Trials, Disease

I started a trial period a couple of weeks ago as a correspondent for 'Extra,' and now it's become full time.

- Holly Madison

topic: Couple, Trials, Week

There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.

- Hugo Black

topic: Men, Justice, Trials, Equal Justice

Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.

- Ibn Taymiyyah

topic: Temptation, Trials, Patient

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.

- Irving Kaufman

topic: Stronger, Doe, Trials, Trial Lawyers

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

- Isabelle Adjani

topic: Trials, Initiation

Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.

- Izaak Walton

topic: Men, Succeed, Trials

Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Trials, Conflict, Crosses

Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Thinking, Trials, World

Someday, when in the presence of our Savior, we will thank Him for every burden, every trial, and every heartache.

- J. Vernon McGee

source: J. Vernon McGee (1994). “On Comfort: Words of Hope for the Hurting”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

topic: Christian, Heartache, Trials

Every moment brings us some benediction. Even the rough hand of trial holds in its clasp for us some treasure of love.

- J.R. Miller

topic: Positive, Hands, Trials, Benediction

I never had a trial I wanted to have, but I never had trial I wasn't glad I had.

- Jack Hyles

topic: Trials, Wanted, Glad

This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.

- Jack Kevorkian

topic: Lynching, Law, Trials

The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.

- James Anthony Froude

source: James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.163

topic: Caring, Waiting, Trials

At this moment, God is watching your life and at some point in this trial, He will say enough. You don't need to falter.

- James MacDonald

topic: Needs, Trials, Moments

The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.

- Jean Grou

source: Jean Nicolas Grou (1881). “The hidden life of the soul [by J.N. Grou]. From the Fr. by the author of A Dominican artist. From the Fr. of J.N. Grou, ed. by W.H. Hutchings”

topic: Reality, Suffering, Trials

Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

- Jeff Greenfield

topic: People, Trials, Murder, Oj Simpson

At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.

- Jeffrey Archer

topic: Australia, Judging, Trials

The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

- Jeremy Bentham

topic: Law, Judging, Trials, Judge And Jury

That is a trial I must face," Veka said. "No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.

- Jim C. Hines

source: Jim C. Hines (2007). “Goblin Hero”, p.70, Penguin

topic: Snakes, Trials, Faces

I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it.

- Jim McDermott

topic: Thinking, Trials, Balloons, Not Impressed

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

- John Galsworthy

source: John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.7654, Delphi Classics

topic: Mean, Trials, Wealth, Fair Trial

Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial.

- John Garamendi

topic: Trials, Crime, Accused, Fair Trial, Falsely Accused

I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.

- John Grisham

topic: Doubt, Stories, Trials

There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.

- John Grisham

topic: Trials, Judgment, Fair Trial

The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.

- John L. Parker Jr.

topic: Trials, Miles

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

- John Mason Brown

topic: Men, Trials, Action

Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

- John Milton

topic: Trials, World, Innocence, Impurity, Fugitive

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

- John Milton

topic: Hurt, Trials, Unjust

I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]

- John T. Scopes

topic: Roles, Trials, Body, Scopes Trial

God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.

- Joni Eareckson Tada

topic: People, Purpose, Trials

It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.

- Joseph A. Schumpeter

topic: Freedom, Democracy, Trials, Democracy Freedom, Autocracy

I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.

- Joseph Wambaugh

source: Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

topic: Years, Trials, Lawyer, Defamation

Patience is a fruit that only grows under trials.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Trials, Fruit, Grows

But I believe we all have an inner goodness; a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials.

- Juliet Marillier

topic: Believe, Flames, Trials

It is a trial within a nation but a trial of victors against the vanquished. Even before the trials started, the victors who are our judges were quite convinced that we were guilty and that we should all pay the price.

- Julius Streicher

topic: Judging, Trials, Pay

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

- Juvenal

topic: Men, Trials, Poverty

It's the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that's worth having.

- Katie Ashley

topic: Trials, Hardest

I don't want to be Kato, the trial guy. It's like everything I do is under a microscope.

- Kato

topic: Guy, Trials, Want

I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial.

- Kato Kaelin

topic: Years, Acting, Trials, Academy

When you decide to walk by faith, you don't get rid of trials. You learn to overcome them.

- Kenneth Copeland

source: Kenneth Copeland (1992). “From Faith to Faith: A Daily Guide to Victory/Male”

topic: Overcoming, Trials, Walk By Faith

There's a lot of trials and tribulations you have to go through to get what you want, especially if you feel like it belongs to you.

- Keyshia Cole

topic: Trials, Want, Feels, Trials And Tribulations

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

- Khaled Hosseini

topic: Sad, Sorrow, Trials

You don't really care about the trials of tomorrow, rather lay awake in a bed full of sorrow

- Kid Cudi

topic: Sorrow, Bed, Trials

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

- Kurt Loder

topic: Criminals, Covering, Trials

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

topic: Art, Mean, Trials, Clearing

This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of?

- Laurie Halse Anderson

topic: Army, Hammers, Trials, Mettle

Trials show us where we are and where we need to grow. Dont run from them, grow from them.

- LeCrae

topic: Running, Needs, Trials

When God wants to make a man, he puts him into some storm.

- Lettie Cowman

topic: Men, Storm, Trials

So I always think its important to allow someone to reveal themself. If you notice something about someone that you like, it could really tell you something about who they are during a time of trial. The truth will come out.

- Leven Rambin

topic: Thinking, Important, Trials, Truth Will Come Out

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

- Lew Wallace

source: Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ bk. 5, ch. 7 (1880)

topic: Men, Trials, Fortune

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

- Livy

topic: Men, Trials, Guilty

I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning, or of the expectation of good results from any of the trials we heard of. So you will understand that I would not care to be a member of the Aeronautical Society.

- Lord Kelvin

topic: Expectations, Molecules, Trials, Navigation

Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.

- Louis Nizer

topic: Expression, Preparation, Trials

What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily.

- Malcolm Gladwell

topic: Powerful, Hard Work, Trials

If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Trials

I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have access to a fair trial and an impartial tribunal.

- Maria Cantwell

topic: Thinking, Issues, Trials, Fair Trial, Tribunals

Having lived a full and stimulating life before I had my kids, I've relished every minute I've had to spend with them and felt a degree of confidence in dealing with their trials and tribulations to date.

- Mariella Frostrup

source: "Let's give older mothers a break" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. March 01, 2012.

topic: Kids, Trials, Degrees, Trials And Tribulations

The question is not why good people have trials, but how shall good people respond when they are tried?

- Marion D. Hanks

topic: People, Good People, Trials

She [Susan McDougal] thinks that it's very similar to what they did with her. Rememberwhen she wouldn't cooperate and they got Jim McDougal to cooperate? JimMcDougal went from saying at his trial that she had the highest moralintegrity,

- Mark Geragos

source: "Starr Said To Be Using Tested Tactic Against Ex-intern" by Lynda Nikula, www.cnn.com. January 26, 1998.

topic: Thinking, Trials

I thought that when I won the Olympic trials I was going to be the happiest person in the whole world. And I was happy. But it wasn't like I thought it was going to be. I had already imagined it in my head so many times. It was real before it happened.

- Marlen Esparza

topic: Real, World, Trials

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

- Martha Beck

topic: Dating, Society, Trials, Jury, Trial By Jury

Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.

- Martin Gore

topic: Errors, Mind, Trials

NO ONE is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.

- Martin Lawrence

source: "Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat". Documentary, Biography, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2002.

topic: Trials, Trials And Tribulations, Tribulation

This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

- Martin Luther

topic: Men, Trials, Forget

Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen.

- Mary J. Blige

source: "Mary J Blige: 'Whitney Houston's funeral freaked me out'". Interview with Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2013.

topic: People, Decision, Trials, Trials And Tribulations

Come ye trials and challanges; come life's big waves, for I am ready?

- Mas Oyama

topic: Trials, Wave, Bigs, Challange