Trials Quotes - Page 29

• There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Transformed, Initiation

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• We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.

  Alexander Herzen

  Believe, Soul, Modern

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• Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

  Stephen Ambrose

  Government, Principles, Failing

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• I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Writing, Triumph, Stories

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• And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

  Scott Bakula

  Lawyer, Grew, Performing

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• I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error.

  David Arquette

  Errors, Trying, Trial And Error

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

  Ayad Allawi

  Country, Names, Hussein

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• I got into the movies by accident. When I got an offer, I thought, 'Let's try this, too.' Everything in my life has happened by trial and error. I didn't even think I would win the Miss India title, so where's the question of thinking I'd come this far.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Winning, Thinking, Errors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.

  Joe Conason

  Cutting, Years, America

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• 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

  Cities, Arena, Crime

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• I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.

  Christopher Darden

  Selfish, Realizing, My Family

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• I don't think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it's just going to stress me out and get me worried.

  Missy Franklin

  Stress, Thinking, Olympics

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• 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.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Errors, Giving, Trial And Error

  "Ballerina of the Century". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• The whole trial seemed surreal.

  Bernhard Goetz

  Surreal, Whole

  "Interview with "Subway Vigilante" Bernhard Goetz". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 17, 2004.

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• Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial.

  John Garamendi

  Crime, Falsely Accused, Fair Trial

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• The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security.

  John Garamendi

  Liberty, Principles, Essentials

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• Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

  Dada Vaswani

  Gratitude, Sacrifice, Suffering

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• If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But if that is their mood, then they had better proceed toward their aim by changing the Constitution and not by forgetting it.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Political, Democracy

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• Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells, but it is a way of searching out by observation, trial and classification; whether the phenomena investigated be the outcome of human activities, or of the more direct workings of nature's laws. Its methods admit of nothing untidy or slip-shod; its keynote is accuracy and its goal is truth.

  Archibald Garrod

  Science, Thinking, Law

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• It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that.

  Ryan Hall

  Nice, Guy, Top 10

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• I did get to go to the Olympic trials in '88 and '92. I was 7th and 11th, so I didn't place high enough to go to the games, but, still, it was a blast.

  Dot Jones

  Games, Enough, Blast

  "'Glee': Dot-Marie Jones talks the never-been-kissed Coach Beiste". Interview with Tim Stack, www.ew.com. November 10, 2010.

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• 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

  Rights, Records, British

  "Why I quoted from The Satanic Verses" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.

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• If you're able to arrange a trial period with a new hire, do it. It will give both of you a chance to make sure the position is a good fit - and can help you avoid being in the awkward situation of wanting to fire someone three or four weeks in.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Fire, Giving, Awkward

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• Peace of heart - without it, no good can make us happy. With it, every trial, even the approach of death, can be borne.

  Frederic Ozanam

  Happiness, Death, Heart

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• Pause and remember - You are unique. You are special. Every mistake, trial and hardship has helped to sculpt your real beauty. Stop hating yourself and start appreciating and loving yourself!

  Jennifer Young

  Mistake, Hate, Real

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