What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?
The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.
We all have trials and tribulations and that shows who we are as a person.
The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.
My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents!
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.
Great faith must have great trials.
Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat. , Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit. ]
A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
How many people saw Arnold's speech last night? I haven't seen that many Kennedys in one place since their last trial.
What I did, when I did it, was honest; now, through changed conditions, what I did may or may not be called honest. Politics demand, therefore, that I be brought to trial; but what is really being brought to trial is the system I represented.
Sturdy gospel roots that go deep into rich spiritual soil strengthen and steady us in times of trial and difficulty.
I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them
This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.
Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
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.
At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.