#verdi

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#beds #every #fate #men #piety

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#blow #both #cause #character #commonly

And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there. ↗

— Lance Ito

#american #american public #being #definite #how

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted. ↗

— Juvenal

#first #guilty #heart #his #man

Orfeo son io, che d'Euridice i passi Seguo per queste tenebrose arene Ove giammai per vom mortal non vassi. ↗

— Claudio Monteverdi

#inspirational #monteverdi #orfeo #inspirational

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. ↗

— Voltaire

#guilt #innocence #judgment #justice #mercy

When hatred judges, the verdict is just guilty. ↗

— Toba Beta

#hatred #judge #just #verdict #hatred

Sentence first, verdict afterwards. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#first #sentence #verdict

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#back #body #end #exalted #his

My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country. ↗

— Charles Tupper

#been #calculated #country #desire #getting