Trials Quotes - Page 18

• 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

  Passion, Men, Office

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.464, Harvard University Press

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• The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.

  Ryan Lochte

  Moving, Olympics, Bigs

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• I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

  James Madison

  Regret, Punishment, Should

  James Madison (1867). “1816-1828”, p.342

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• Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Grieving, Sorrow

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• A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

  Bill McCollum

  Criminals, Matter, Accusation

  "Senate impeachment trial: questions and answers, day two". www.cnn.com. January 23, 1999.

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• We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith.

  Joyce Meyer

  Storm, Faces, Difficult

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• The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Life, Courage, Disappointment

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• Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training...

  Lewis Mumford

  Life, Art, Practice

  "The Conduct Of Life". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1951.

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• Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure.

  Liam Neeson

  Girl, Thinking, Men

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• 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.

  Huey Newton

  Mean, Community, Patriotism

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.158, Penguin

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• We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers’ unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.

  Grover Norquist

  Teacher, House, Groups

  "Grover Norquist: The Soul of the New Machine" by Michael Scherer, www.motherjones.com. January 2004.

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• As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

  Andre Norton

  Courage, Lying, Inspiration

  Andre Norton (1981). “Gryphon in glory”, Atheneum Books

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• I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median.

  Apolo Ohno

  Winter, Ice, Two

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• 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

  Israel, People, May

  "Clashes mar Mid-East inquiry", news.bbc.co.uk. March 25, 2001.

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• Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

  Charles Stanley

  Heartache, Tests, Matter

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• As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.

  David Wilkerson

  Crush, Pain, Godly

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• Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these trials cannot be readily understood except on the basis of faith and hope because there is often a larger purpose which we do not always understand. Peace comes through hope.

  James E. Faust

  Uplifting, Challenges, Purpose

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

  Khaled Hosseini

  Sad, Sorrow, Reason

  Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.36, A&C Black

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• As we look for humor, seek for the eternal perspective, understnd the principle of compensation, and draw near to our Heavenly Father, we can endure heardship and trial.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Father, Perspective, Principles

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• If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.

  Margaret Atwood

  Our Thoughts, Ifs

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, Anchor

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• From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Crush, Suicide, Military

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• For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Prayer, Heart, Acceptance

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• Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.

  Michael Crichton

  Importance, Attorney, Wells

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• Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)

  Edith Hamilton

  Mean, Broken, Soul

  Edith Hamilton (1969). “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes”

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• Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.

  Charles Dickens

  Grief, Moving, Men

  Charles Dickens (1985). “Oliver Twist”, p.259, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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