Trials Quotations | Page 5

For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed, no questions asked, you had nothing to prove. Under Stalinism, of course, most [victims] were on trial for false accusations; most of them were not traitors. There is one interesting feature: that they were tortured or through some kind of blackmail forced to confess to being traitors.

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.

Going to a sensational murder trial is the only way I can relax.

The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

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.

The claims of Christ are always on trial, and we remain under oath! We are his witnesses for truth.

We can choose to see life as a series of trials and tribulations, or we can choose to see life as an accumulation of treasures.

Many Americans have lost confidence in the way our criminal courts assess guilt and innocence. Whatever one thinks of the verdicts, the recent trials of O.J. Simpson, Erik and Lyle Menendez, and various defendants in preschool molestation cases have been lengthy, lawyer-dominated soap operas in which the search for truth has been subordinated to the manipulation of procedures.

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.

The trials in the last month are the culmination of all the groundwork done in the 1990s. But you will find because of all the focus on terrorism, you will see less and less of that.

The trials in Mexico are without a jury. It's all on paper. There are no live witnesses, and they don't have the right to remain silent. And they're guilty until proven innocent. Their culture is so different.

The trials have so far yielded excellent preliminary indications and will be followed by trials on animals with cancer.

These kinds of trials are generally trial by documents, especially as you go up the chain of command.

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.

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.

Now, I wish to encourage those who are in the midst of hard trials, who feel their faith may be fading under the onslaught of troubles. There seems to me no better answer to the question of why trials come and what we are to do than the words of the Lord Himself, who passed through trials for us more terrible than we can imagine.

The Lord will always prepare a way for you to escape from the trials you will be given if you understand two things. One is that you need to be on the Lord's errand. The second thing you need to understand is that the escape will almost never be out of the trial; it will usually be through it.

The clinical trials are usually done with the extract so you should try to stick with products made from extract.

The final trials is today in my country, and since I'm here....

Know that what you do in the time of your greatest trial can be your greatest triumph

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.

Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever the defense they may hear; the only success victorious defense can possibly produce is a change in the indictment.

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

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

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.

The only ones who will see an increase in pay are some of the trial lawyers who bring the cases.

In return for financial support will advocate admission of Jews to England; This however impossible while Charles living. Charles cannot be executed without trial on adequate grounds for which do not presently exist. Therefore advise that Charles be assassinated, but will have nothing to do with arrangements for procuring an assassin, though willing to help in his escape. [King Charles I was in prison at the time].

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.

An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment does not rest on facts - cold, hard, solid facts, established either by admissions or by trials - it serves no lawful or moral purpose and is simply an engine of oppression.

Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.

The meets like the Olympic Trials are much more intense than states. This is pretty relaxing.

The medical community needs to know the results of clinical trials to be able to view the entire picture of how a treatment works, how it compares to other therapies and what choices could serve patients best. It's disturbing to think that important information on clinical trials is being left to gather dust.

Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. "I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her." "If I was, I would make you beg to blow me," I sneer.

But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.

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

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.

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

The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security.

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

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.

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

I am co-counsel and as co-counsel I have the right to represent myself, speak for myself and conduct myself and my trial by myself in my best interests in order of due process.

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.

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

Wherever there's hope there's a trial.

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

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.

I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so now to angels. But we are ourselves, you know, and this is now, not some time to come, a long, long way off. And we are not angels, to be comforted by seeing the ends for which everything is sent.

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.

I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK because he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that--he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us.

A man in Thailand was arrested with more than 10,000 pairs of stolen underwear. Legal experts are expecting a brief trial.

There`s a fine line between balanced journalism and trial by television.

You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.

Those who say [Joseph] Padilla should get a civilian trial are essentially saying that if you reject the rules of civilized nations, like those inscribed in the Geneva Convention, you therefore deserve to be treated better, not worse, than those rules require.

It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right.

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

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.

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

Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you - to make you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity.

To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet the very same that was now so unutterably grievous to be borne. The days of the far-off future would toil onward, still with the same burden for her to take up, and bear along with her, but never to fling down; for the accumulating days, and added years, would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame.

W. Bush, this man is a war criminal, and we will see that he is brought to trial.

Everybody knows how much time Fang spends in bed. A local store that gives a 30 days' trial on mattresses gives Fang only 15 days.

We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.

Fans made me. The fans gave me a chance, and they made me. Beyond that, my career has been trials and tribulations and ups and downs, so I have to have true fans riding with me.

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?

If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be for Jesus a pleasant place of shelter.

In spite of this trial, which takes all enjoyment from me, I can never the less, cry out, 'Lord, you fill me with joy in all that you do. For is there a joy greater than to suffer for love?'

Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.

In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.

I really don't miss the trials and courtroom appearances.

The trials and tribulations in your life make you stronger.

How you deal with life’s trials is part of the development of your faith.

How you deal with life’s trials is part of the development of your faith. Strength comes when you remember that you have a divine nature, an inheritance of infinite worth.

With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.

No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a time. The writer is convinced that this view is wholly mistaken. Nature, he suggests, will best respond to a logical and carefully thought out questionnaire; indeed, if we ask her a single question, she will often refuse to answer until some other topic has been discussed.

Gari in Russian means "burn!"... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off.

One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict.

It's a pity that Milosevic did not live through the trial and get his deserved sentence.

If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial... People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

Trials are to see if you believe what you say you believe.

It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.

He was overconfident”, she told him. “And I won so the gods must have thought I was right. Otherwise they’d have made me lose. You know how trial by combat works.” “You won because you were good” he corrected her. “I find it hard to believe the gods sit forever about the Divine Realms betting on jousts and trials by combat.

almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts

Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.

We learn and grow and become stronger as we face and survive the trials through which we must pass.

Temples are more than stone and mortar. They are filled with faith and fasting. They are built of trials and testimonies. They are sanctified by sacrifice and service.

As we touch the temple and love the temple, our lives will reflect our faith. As we go to the holy house, as we remember the covenants we make therein, we will be able to bear every trial and overcome each temptation.

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

It's almost as difficult to believe that someone with so many trials could harbor such hope, as that there are those with so much advantage who harbor such hopelessness.

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

Trust, therefore, for the overcoming of a difficulty, not to long-continued study after you have once become bewildered, but to repeated trials at intervals.

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?