#trial

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him. ↗

— John Marshall

#guilt #innocence #justice #law #legality

Life with trials hard may press me; Heaven will bring me sweeter rest. ↗

— Henry F. Lyte

#heaven #trials #trouble #life

[O]ver the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we know what will happen, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy. It is alien, and old people are a separate form of life. They have green skin, with two heads that sprout antennae. They can be pleasant, they can be annoying--in the supermarket, these old ladies won't get out of my way--but most important they are permanently other. When we turn eighty, we understand that we are extraterrestrial. If we forget for a moment that we are old, we are reminded when we try to stand up, or when we encounter someone young, who appears to observe green skin, extra heads, and protuberances. ↗

— Donald Hall

#aliens #antiquity #extraterrestrials #old-age #other

Why is it we must suffer the loss of something so dear before we realize what a treasure we had? Why must the sun be darkened before we feel how genuinely impossible it is to live without its warmth? Why within the misery of absence does love grow by such bounds? Why must life be this way? It is a strange existence where such suffering makes us far better people. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#hardship #improving #learning #life #richelle

Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life. ↗

— Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

#celestial #honor #life #pathway #pierre

Next time I'll pat you on the freaking back for stating the obvious. ↗

— James Dashner

#death

On the seventh of May, Cerise Mar, Erian Mar, and Mikita Mar traveled to the aforementioned manor house and found Lagar Sheerile, Peva Sheerile, Arig Sheerile, and several men in their employ on the premises. Cerise Mar voiced a polite and a nonviolent request that they get the hell off our land, which was refused. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#quarrel #trial #men

You once told me, when you visited my house, how Anne conducts herself with men: she says, “Yes, yes, yes, yes, no.”’ Wyatt nods; he recognises those words; he looks sorry he spoke them. ‘Now you may have to transpose one word of that testimony. Yes, yes, yes, no, yes. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#trial #men

When a woman didn't enjoy it, she leaves early in the morning. Those who had a nice time will wait until the sun comes out, requests breakfast and taxi money. In the morning that lady requested breakfast and taxi money. You don't ask for taxi money from somebody who raped you. ↗

— Julius Malema

#chauvinism #jacob-zuma #jacob-zuma-rape-trial #rape #sex

God's way leads always into trial, so far as sight and sense are concerned. Nature always will be tried in God's ways. ↗

— George Mueller

#trial #nature