#trial

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

#get #going #i #i do #just

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. ↗

— Robert Frost

#beginners #business #market #modern #money

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire. ↗

— John Legend

#ear #fire #play #training #trial

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#armies #asia #blue #chest #combined

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#constituents #court #effect #government #government offices

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted. ↗

— Titus Livius

#better #brought #guilty #man #should

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#develop #grieves #our #sorrows #trials

I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time. ↗

— Robert Matsui

#any #before #charges #day #deceased

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#country #every #industrialized #nearly #now

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#brought #century #conceded #creating #demand