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With 'Verdict' I was away for six months, touring, with a week in each town. I did not really enjoy that aspect of it. -- Matthew Lewis
It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough. -- Richard D. Zanuck
Sentence first, verdict afterwards. -- Lewis Carroll
Old age is the verdict of life. -- Amelia Barr
The verdict of the world is conclusive. -- Saint Augustine
Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence. -- Leonard Peikoff
Choosing how you vote should not be a snap verdict based on a few minutes of television. -- Simon Cowell
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted. -- Juvenal
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. -- Dag Hammarskjold
A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty. -- Alan Dershowitz
It's not fair that the accused is not protected from adverse publicity whilst the accuser is guaranteed anonymity, whatever the verdict. -- Jonathan King
In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate. -- Georges Duhamel
I did not do anything wrong as a governor, even if you accept the verdict as it is, it doesn't indicate that. -- Edwin Edwards
We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation. -- Mahmoud Abbas
My first day as an intern in the books department at 'Cosmopolitan' also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced. -- John Searles
I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict. -- Witold Pilecki
I guess the verdict is in - I am not a sociopath. It's not effective or productive not to be nice. It would undermine the goals I want to achieve on any given day. -- Whitney Cummings
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use. -- Leonard Cohen
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
When you have incidences like the Trayvon Martin verdict, the erosion of certain fundamental rights like voting, it just reminds us that we're always one Supreme Court justice vote away from losing the progress that has been made. -- Terri Sewell
By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead. -- John Acton
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. -- Barbara Bush
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
Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict - which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt. -- Noam Chomsky
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
In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them. -- Alafair Burke
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
Conservatives shouldn't count on the Supreme Court to do our work for us on Obamacare. The Court may rule as it should, and strike down the mandate. But it may not. And even if it does, the future of health care in America - and for that matter, the future of limited government - depends ultimately on the verdict of the American people. -- William Kristol
The world's verdict is conclusive. -- Saint Augustine
Ares gives his verdict without witnesses. -- Aeschylus
Brexit means Brexit.The public made their verdict. -- Theresa May
Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention. -- Leonard Cohen
When hatred judges, the verdict is just guilty. -- Toba Beta
One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'. -- Robert Browning
Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict. -- Norman Cousins
Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind. -- Ayn Rand
The evidence is in, and you are the verdict. -- Anne Lamott
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. -- Juvenal
Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself. -- Jameis Winston
Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice. -- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict. -- Susan Estrich
Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it. -- Norman Cousins
Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts. -- Julian Fellowes
The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician. -- Franz Grillparzer
In democracy, people's verdict is always final and we all have to accept it with humility. -- Narendra Modi
A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map. -- Robert Henri
On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth. -- George W. Bush
Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart. -- Tanith Lee
In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict. -- Anais Nin
The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars. -- H. L. Mencken
The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. -- Ayn Rand
A conviction is in the nature of a verdict and judgment, and therefore it must be precise and certain. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The verdict of the Greek people renders the troika a thing of the past for our common European framework. -- Alexis Tsipras
The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters. -- Rush Limbaugh
Hung verdict would have meant anger against previous govt; Clear verdict to BJP shows people voted for hope and aspiration. -- Narendra Modi
The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me. -- Robert Breault
Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance? -- Timothy Keller
Your mind is your only judge of truth-and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. -- John Galt
My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict.... -- Anne Sexton
Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict. -- John Calvin
Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept. -- Ayn Rand
The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the verdict of history. -- Pentti Linkola
When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities. -- Adolf Hitler
My first day as an intern in the books department at Cosmopolitan also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced. -- John Searles
As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted. -- Hugh Nibley
Since the Justice Department refuses to allow you to render a verdict, I'm going to present the case now, on the facts, against Hillary Rodham Clinton. -- Chris Christie
Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion. -- Alvin Plantinga
The choice of moves should not be made on an exact verdict of the final position, but on whether or not your position has improved or worsened. -- Jacob Aagaard
In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of posterity. -- Marcel Duchamp
What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
Previously people were treated anonymously particular on a drugs situation which is obviously highly emotive. They have been treated anonymously even after the verdict had been reached. -- David Gill
I want there to be an open and positive debate about the path the country will now take. Whatever the verdict of that debate I will respect it. -- Michael Gove
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The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present, a plague, a devastation, an inescapable verdict. -- Sam Vaknin
It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I am like a child ready for the apocalypse, I am the apocalypse itself, that is to say, the ultimate and first event of the end, the unveiling and the verdict. -- Jacques Derrida
Their world has changed overnight ...Even after the trial, after the verdict -- whatever it might be -- life would never be the same again.That was the truth of murder. -- Marian Babson
We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action. -- Learned Hand
It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court. -- John Adams
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions. -- Aldous Huxley
the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors. -- Agnes Repplier
Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of Galileo's doctrine. Its verdict against Galileo was rational and just. -- Paul Feyerabend

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