Trials Quotes - Page 7

• We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.

  Helen Keller

  Crush, Force

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.192, Book Tree

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• The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried out, and tossed out if necessary, with
  more new ideas brought in - a trial and error system.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Running, Errors, Government

  "What Do You Care What Other People Think". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1988.

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• It is the easiest thing in the world for us to obey God when He commands us to do what we like, and to trust Him when the path is all sunshine. The real victory of faith is to trust God in the dark, and through the dark. Let us be assured of this, that if the lesson and the rod are of His appointing, and that His all-wise love has engineered the deep tunnel of trial on the heavenward road, He will never desert us during the discipline. The vital thing for us is not to deny and desert Him.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Wise, Real, Sunshine

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 587), 1895.

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• Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and mistakes, trial and error, and now and again that feeling that you might have wings.

  Megan Crane

  Mistake, Wings, Errors

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• I got better the way everyone gets better: by trial and error and error and error, by fumbling around and making mistakes but not giving up and working incredibly hard at it every day and eventually, through a painful and laborious process of eliminating every wrong turn, finding my way.

  Mishka

  Giving Up, Mistake, Errors

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• Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Broken, Mind, Care

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• I learned to cook by watching and helping my mother in the kitchen. I also learned by trial and error. Even though I'm big on recipes, I love to make up my own dishes and when you take a risk in the kitchen, you learn a lot about food!

  Nina Dobrev

  Mother, Errors, Risk

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

  Jane Jacobs

  Errors, Cities, Design

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.6, Vintage

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• What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Sweet, Air, Feet

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• ... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.

  Hannah More

  Sober, Rich, Resources

  Hannah More (1854). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.323

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• The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and exits -- all are as formally arranged as an Elizabethan stage. Only the drama is shapeless, at least to those of us who have never seen a trial before. We see only random movements, sequences, comings and goings, no form or agenda apparent. To us the action is less like watching a play than watching an aquarium.

  Shana Alexander

  Drama, Aquariums, Play

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• In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends,
  To reap the harvest of perpetual peace
  By this one bloody trial of sharp war.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Names

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.114

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• science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

  Joan Robinson

  Science, Errors, Progress

  Joan Robinson (1962). “Economic philosophy”, p.38, Transaction Publishers

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• If you are accused of being associated with terrorism, which could mean you are an Arab- American and you've sent e-mails to a relative in the Middle East, you should get your day in court, and I think you should get a lawyer and a trial, and I think most Americans agree to that.

  Rand Paul

  Mean, Thinking, Middle East

  "Sen. Rand Paul on top congressional issues; pivotal moment in the battle over gay marriage". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. March 24, 2013.

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• A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them

  William Hazlitt

  Greatness, Men, Player

  Table Talk "The Indian Jugglers" (1822)

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• The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him.

  J.R. Miller

  Rocks, Land, Sorrow

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• Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt,
  Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled;
  Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm
  Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

  John Milton

  Hurt, Unjust, May

  John Milton, John Hunter (1864). “Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c”, p.33

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• As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord; so God, through affliction makes His own better unto the fruition and enjoying of the life to come.

  Daniel Cawdry

  Musician, Fruition, Affliction

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• Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Records, Hardest

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Old Curiosity Shop--and Reprinted Pieces”, p.202

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• In Los Angeles, the jury in the Reginald Denny Beating trial, after much thinking, concludes, that Person A is not necessarily trying to kill Person B just because Person A happens to very deliberately bash Person B's skull in with a brick. The verdict is applauded by scientists at the Tobacco Institute.

  Dave Barry

  Thinking, Skulls, Trying

  "Beavis and Butt-Head and Bobbitt and Bubba" by Dave Barry, www.washingtonpost.com. January 2, 1994.

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• It's the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that's worth having.

  Katie Ashley

  Hardest

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• If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.

  St. Jerome

  Giving, Forever, World

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• It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Men, Cynical

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• What shall we do my darling, when trial grows more, and more, when the dim, lone light expires, and it's dark, so very dark, and we wander, and know not where, and cannot get out of the forest - whose is the hand to help us, and to lead, and forever guide us? ... Where do you think I've strayed and from what new errand returned. I have come from to and fro, and walking up and down the same place that Satan hailed from when God asked where he'd been.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dark, Thinking, Light

  Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.39, Harvard University Press

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• Definitely I'm convinced that behind my case there is a trial of the church.

  Augustin Misago

  Scary, Church, Cases

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