Trial Quotes

I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial.

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

I don't think Amber taped Scott or testified for money, but the opportunity certainly presented itself. It makes me a bit uncomfortable, but at least she never sold the story before trial to the tabloids.

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

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

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

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.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.