Quotes with trial

  • Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

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  • Anthony Holden A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Thomas Fuller A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Mark Twain A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Bernard Shaw 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.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill McCollum A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.
    Bill McCollum
    American lawyer and politician (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Barton Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Alan Dershowitz All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Barbara Amiel Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Angela Davis As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Barkley was the first of many American skyjackers whose primary interest was money; by 1972, the majority of the nation's hijackings would involve demands for ransom. Barkley himself was declared incompetent to stand trial in November 1971, at which point he was committed to a psychiatric hospital in Georgia.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Helen Keller Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Bill Hicks Courtroom for Ted Bundy's trial is packed with women, trying to meet him and give him love letters and wedding-fucking-proposals...and the first thought that enters my mind is, And I'm not getting laid. What am I doing wrong?
    Arizona Bay
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Barbara Amiel Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Ann Rule For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean.
    Ann Rule
    American author of true crime books (0 - 2015)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Hunter S. Thompson Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Walter Lippmann 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
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Bob Ney 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
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Ariel Sharon 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
    Israeli general and politician (1928 - 2014)
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  • Alice James 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
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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