Top 100 On Trial Quotes
#1. All that is known for sure is that endometriosis is endemic and that it cannot be cured. Management is the best hope. This makes for treatments that are, if I am being polite, based on trial and error. If I am feeling less generous, they are shots in the dark.
Rose George
#2. President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial.
Mitt Romney
#3. 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
#4. A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.
Tom C. Clark
#5. We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it ... No grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy.
Robert H. Jackson
#6. Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.
Socrates
#7. We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.
David Boies
#8. We were full of experiments and reforms, we were going to do without table napkins. Everything was going to be new, everything was going to be different. Everything was on trial.
Virginia Woolf
#9. Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
Bob Dylan
#10. Chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.
James Hansen
#11. The claims of Christ are always on trial, and we remain under oath! We are his witnesses for truth.
Max Lucado
#12. The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.
Harlan F. Stone
#14. If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
Michel De Montaigne
#15. Next time we see you, you'll be on trial for some ingenious crime!" Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. "Just as long as they know my name.
Libba Bray
#16. God will not be absent when His people are on trial; he will stand in court as their advocate, to plead on their behalf.
Charles Spurgeon
#17. 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
#18. Frank Master wasn't really her lover yet. Though he didn't quite know it, he was still on trial. She found him intelligent, kindly, somewhat ignorant of opera, but maybe improvable.
Edward Rutherfurd
#19. No one should be put on trial without a valid reason. Former President Morsi must be treated with dignity. These are the conditions of national reconciliation.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#20. Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.
Peter DeFazio
#21. How can I say, with a straight face, you can be anything you want in this world - when I struggled and studied and excelled and still wound up on trial for something I did not do?
Jodi Picoult
#23. Everyone who comes within the reach of your knowledge is, as it were, on trial in your mind. It is easy to be an unjust, ignorant, and even a merciless judge. The real character of the actions of others depends in great measure on the motives that prompt them, and these motives are unknown to you.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
#24. Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.
Tina Brown
#25. The feeling that "I am enough" does not mean that I have nothing to learn, nothing further to achieve, and nowhere to grow to. It means that I accept myself, that I am not on trial in my own eyes, that I value and respect myself. This is not an act of indulgence but of courage.
Nathaniel Branden
#26. I always considered, with every shoot, I was on trial; every time I pick up my camera and start out on the relationship, I am at degree zero. There is no coasting.
Douglas Kirkland
#27. If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?
Craig Shirley
#28. Your Honor, if giving the finger is a motive for murder, then most everyone in this courtroom would be on trial
Kenneth Eade
#29. In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors
Eoin MacNeill
#30. I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.
Beanie Sigel
#31. It wasn't just Adnan being indicted at this grand jury proceeding, it wasn't just him being prosecuted. His faith, his ethnicity, his community--they were all on trial.
Rabia Chaudry
#32. The world is like a courtroom, with God as our judge. We are called upon to fulfill our covenant with God, who asked, "Am I not your Lord?" To which we answered, "Yea." And since here on earth we are on trial, our every word and action form the witness to and the evidence of that agreement.
Rumi
#33. No leader lives a day without criticism, and humility will never be more on trial than when criticism comes.
J. Oswald Sanders
#34. Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.
Pete Du Pont
#35. The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.
Ken Livingstone
#36. We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.
Fidel Castro
#37. Not anticipating I'd be on trial for my life, my mother hadn't bothered to pack a suit for me. She was, by nature, an optimist.
David Liss
#38. Kenya DOES NOT belong to 2 tribes only. Kenya has 42 tribes. to say that the decision of 2 tribes is the decision of the whole country is fallacy and outright dictatorship and tribalism
Akuku Mach Pep, Democracy on Trial
Akuku Mach Pep
#39. In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
Walter Lippmann
#40. War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
Nawal El Saadawi
#41. During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.
James Madison
#42. Whoever coined the phrase '"I can work well under pressure" should be put on trial for crimes against Humanity.
Adriano Bulla
#43. The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail.
Elliot Richardson
#44. Twenty-eight men were on trial. If found guilty, they faced death by the grisly form of torture known as hanging, drawing and quartering. The most important of these were twenty-four who had sat as judges at the king's trial. Most of them had played other key roles in bringing the king to trial.
Don Jordan
#45. If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.
Richard Dawkins
#46. You can put a man on trial, but you can't make the guilty pay.
Shinedown
#47. I say to everyone within the sound of my voice, 'Do not fail the Lord'. We must accept the truth that the gospel principles are not on trial but that we are.
Spencer W. Kimball
#48. To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat from alleged weapons of mass destruction programs in Iraq has been neutralized.
Peter DeFazio
#49. I don't share the view that the ICC is anti-African. The ICC is not putting Africa on trial. The ICC is fighting impunity and individuals who are accused of crimes.
Kofi Annan
#50. A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#51. In this day and age where humanity is lost by so many, can a young, black child of God be put on trial for his very own murder."
~Elissa Gabrielle
Elissa Gabrielle
#52. Make a change of your steps when necessary. "Status quo" is the court room where change is kept on trial for long, delaying the verdict. Make a change and achieve your dreams. Rule your case with victory.
Israelmore Ayivor
#53. When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else?
George McGovern
#54. My legislation would cut off all funding for trials of anyone from Guantanamo in any court in the United States of America. This bill would help stop the misguided plan to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists on trial in Downtown Manhattan.
Peter T. King
#55. You who have defeated us say to yourselves that Babylon is fallen and its works have been overturned. I say to you still that man remains on trial, each man in his own dock. Each man is a little war.
Frank Herbert
#56. This is folly, Tyrion,' declared Lord Tywin. 'Speak to the matter at hand. You are not on trial for being a dwarf.
'That is where you err, my lord. I have been on trial for being a dwarf my entire life.
George R R Martin
#57. If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.
Margaret Atwood
#58. I do not even put myself on trial and judge myself. 1 CORINTHIANS 4:3
Joyce Meyer
#59. Inside the museum infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo, 'This is what salvation must be like after a while.' But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.
Bob Dylan
#60. A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial.
Philo
#61. One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
Lew Wallace
#62. 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
#63. I was tested for a reason I was put on trial to see if I was worthy
Cameo Renae
#64. But suffering does not automatically bring glory to God and blessing to God's people. Some believers have fainted and fallen in times of trial and have brought shame to the name of Christ. It is only when we depend on the grace of God that we can glorify God in times of suffering.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#65. The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them.
Camille Paglia
#66. The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.
Emile Durkheim
#67. Harry was on a God-given mission - a trial mission that was the opportunity of an eternity and one he hoped would become a permanent job if he performed well.
Debbie Macomber
#68. A trial relied heavily on oaths, but both sides would bring as many liars as they could muster, and judgment usually went to the better liars or, if both sides were equally convincing, to the side who had the sympathy of the onlookers.
Bernard Cornwell
#69. 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
#70. When failure imprisons you for not doing what you should have done, you have no option than to bail yourself on the promise of trying again! Try again!
Israelmore Ayivor
#71. Do people/circumstances take up space in your head ... without paying rent? What we spend the majority of our thoughts on/in is what we revere and fear! (EL)
Evinda Lepins
#72. Wherever there's hope there's a trial. You're exactly right. Absolutely. Hope, however, is limited, and generally abstract, while there are countless trials, and they tend to be concrete. That is also something I had to learn on my own.
Anonymous
#73. Few dramas in American political history remain more riveting than that of Nixon's exit and Mr. Ford's reaction, at first halting and then decisive, to the looming possibility of a former president on criminal trial for months on end.
Scott Shane
#74. If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.
Isabelle Adjani
#75. Now it is clear, that if the government can exclude, on account either of their opinions or feelings, any persons thus drawn by lot, the trial is no longer a trial by 'the country,' but only by a portion of the country.
Lysander Spooner
#76. Love that is founded on decision is stable and strong and it will endure any trial
Sunday Adelaja
#77. Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.
Sydney Biddle Barrows
#78. The child you select is yours for free," he adds, "on a ninety-day trial. At which point, if you so choose, you may send him back.
Anonymous
#79. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas-bhagat singh in court during his trial, india's struggle for freedom
Bhagat Singh
#80. Trial by fire.' Roland whistled, patting Luce on the back. 'Show no fear.
Lauren Kate
#81. 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
#82. We have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they're workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we're on the right track.
Orson Scott Card
#83. Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.
Mahatma Gandhi
#84. When a person builds his life on the Word of God, he is not afraid of any trial.
Sunday Adelaja
#85. I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
Mario Cuomo
#86. Try on 100 different hats if you can, until you find the one that suits you best. It's a trial and error thing.
Philip Treacy
#87. I am divorced, and one of the things I am tremendously grateful for is that my ex-husband and I made a decision to go through mediation. I knew a trial would drag on for years, would cost me everything, but worse, would be devastating for our four small children.
Jane Green
#88. Nothing is more likely than that [the] enumeration of powers is defective. This is the ordinary case of all human works. Let us then go on perfecting it by adding by way of amendment to the Constitution those powers which time and trial show are still wanting
Thomas Jefferson
#89. Our responsibility before God is an inalienable aspect of our human dignity. Its final expression will be on the day of judgment. Nobody will be sentenced without trial.
John R.W. Stott
#90. Anytime the Foxes mentioned Andrew's upcoming sobriety or Andrew's name popped up in write-ups on the team's performance at games, the focus was on what a danger he was. People talked about his trial and how it saved them from Andrew. No one said what they were doing to save Andrew from himself.
Nora Sakavic
#91. I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.
Angela Davis
#92. I find it deeply upsetting when I see justice not being served. How do we as human beings deal with the unknown? The West Memphis Three trial is a joke on so many different levels.
Atom Egoyan
#93. 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
#94. The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
Anthony Trollope
#95. 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.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#97. Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.
Levon Helm
#98. There's always stuff to work on. You're never there.
Tiger Woods
#99. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong. A house built on the sand is in fair weather just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is no strain upon it.
Henry Ward Beecher
#100. Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.
Charles Spurgeon
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