#trials

In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#false #inquiry #may #oral #possible

I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute. ↗

— David Guterson

#cases #commute #growing #growing up #heard

It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#before #beijing #dudes #facing #faster

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#abandoned #cannot #defeat #either #end

Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#daily #drop #eventually #ever #feel

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#day #errors #hopes #night #pause

A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#become #cannot #difficulties #dreads #early

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#courage #patience #trials-of-life #courage

He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and A Christmas Carol over A Tale of Two Cities or The Pickwick Papers. What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#trials

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#always #anvil #god #higher #shaping