Acquit Quotes

#1. Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction ... if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong.

Alexander Hamilton

#2. [N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.

Charley Reese

#3. We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Failures are not fatal. It's not that he loves what you did, but he loves who you are. You are his. The One who has the right to condemn you provided the way to acquit you. You make mistakes. God doesn't. And he made you.

Max Lucado

#5. To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed.

John Calvin

#6. The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came to satisfy the deep judgment against us once and for all so that we could be free from the judgement of God, others, and ourselves.

Tullian Tchividjian

#7. If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.

Johnnie Cochran

#8. On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It's in this sense that we must be holy.

Kevin DeYoung

#9. It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

Maimonides

#10. Acquit thyself in the Lord. He will give you inner peace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. There are some times when sports rises to the level of news and when sports broadcasters acquit themselves as well as the best news broadcasters do, they aren't there to dramatize. They're there as journalists.

Bob Costas

#12. Never go to sleep with bad thoughts and torturing memories. They will not help you to wake up whole and fully serene - the two states of mind and body without which no man can acquit himself well at his day's task. A child should be ushered into the chamber of sleep with serene joy.

Dhan Gopal Mukerji

#13. Be careful of what you dwell on and what you say. Your thoughts and words will either acquit or condemn you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. If it does not fit, you must acquit.

Johnnie Cochran

#15. I've never had my dexterity called into question, but I think if that was ever the case, I could acquit myself by tossing a ball back and forth horizontally between my hands.

Sonia Sotomayor

#16. If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

Benito Mussolini

#17. Why charge we Heav'n in those, in these acquit?
In both, to reason right is to submit.

Alexander Pope

#18. He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

John Locke

#19. I'm just one of the many millions of lonely souls trying to live on the face of this earth. I'm trying to acquit myself without making too many mistakes. Now and then I may even be on top of things enough to try and do some good. That's all.

Jo Nesbo

#20. The purpose of a spirit filled life is to demonstrate the supernatural power of our living God so that the unsaved multitudes will abandon their dead gods to call upon the name of The Lord and be delivered.

T.L. Osborn

#21. That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren't there.

J.D. Robb

#22. I was dying. I knew it. At least the pain was gone. I wanted to tell him that I loved him. Then darkness overtook me ...

Colleen Houck

#23. Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on.

William, Saroyan

#24. Nothing is more helpful to reduce pride than the actual experience of self-knowledge. If we are discouraged by it, we have misunderstood its meaning.

Thomas Keating

#25. You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform.

Steve Israel

#26. My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.

Karolyn Grimes

#27. One of the things that was great about my mom, as a mom, was that she always knew when she was being kind of ridiculous.

Kimberly McCreight

#28. Emptiness constantly falls within our reach. It is always with us, and conditions all our knowledge, all our deeds and is our life itself. It is only when we attempt to pick it up and hold it forth as something before our eyes that it eludes us, frustrates all our efforts and vanishes like vapor.

D.T. Suzuki

#29. The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of apathy.' I'm like, 'What?' I don't walk up to a friend and go 'That's a stylin' looking vortex of apathy you've got there pal. I was swimming up a river of deceit myself.'

Devin Townsend