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I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]
Trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more.
We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them
If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.
At this moment, God is watching your life and at some point in this trial, He will say enough. You don't need to falter.
God will not be absent when His people are on trial; he will stand in court as their advocate, to plead on their behalf.
In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'
God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.
Some days I'm on top of the world, and nothing can stop me, and I'm Super Woman, but I have trials and tribulations, too.
The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.
Lawyers are like professional wrestlers. They pretend to get mad and fight, but then they socialize after a trial is over.
In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.
Berlusconi is being tried because he lives with women. If he was homosexual, no one would have lifted a finger against him.
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.
The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.
I'm not scared, because I know that I need to face the trial. What I mean is, I already expect I will need to pay the price.
But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.
The underdog is a person that's at risk, a person that has a lot of big trials you have to overcome. I mean, that was my life.
We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.
Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.
My father is an action director and he often worked with Veeru Devgnji. That's how I would end up at Ajay Devgn's film trials.
it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
We can choose to see life as a series of trials and tribulations, or we can choose to see life as an accumulation of treasures.
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.
You have to go through a lot of trials and tribulations as a player to be able to grow and learn from 'em and to become better.
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
We are human and regular people at the end of the day. We're not immune from the trials and tribulations that go on through life.
It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.
There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.
I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.
The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.
I have a profound interest in embroidery, as I have female ancestors on both sides who embroidered their way through great trials.
It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.
You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.
When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must be ambitious.
A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.
I got an invitation to go to the Olympic trials. And in the same week, I got a telegram from a... big executive at Columbia Records.
Young men often seek tests and trials, and to me, BUD/S training - basic underwater demolition/SEAL - seemed like the ultimate test.
There's a lot of trials and tribulations you have to go through to get what you want, especially if you feel like it belongs to you.
Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as 'victor's justice'. And this is precisely what they were - and were intended to be.
Even with the trials of life, because of the Savior's Atonement and his grace, righteous living will be rewarded with personal peace.
I think the biggest problem in clinical trials is that they are underpowered. And that fundamentally, the studies are just too small.
It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character.
A friend of mine who passed through a most severe trial, when I discussed it with him, he said simply, if it’s fair, it isn’t a trial.