Trial Quotes

The whole trial seemed surreal.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

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.

All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.

I did it the stupid way, through trial and error.

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.

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

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.

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

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

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.

The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.

President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial.

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

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.