Tests Quotes

The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.

The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.

commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you failed the IQ test.

All physical and economic tests that may be devised are worthless if the immigrant, through racial or other inherently antipathetic conditions, cannot be more or less readily assimilated.

A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.

Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.

As a Test cricketer you expect that at times you're going to be heckled, and you must have a thick skin.

I think the West needs to get away from the habit of regarding the regime's nuclear tests and ballistic launches as isolated provocations timed to generate maximum attention.

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.

I was one of the serious studiers. I'm not somebody who just shows up and gets a hundred on a test.

I still have nightmares about taking tests.

Screening is an invaluable part of the process, obviously, having test screening and you definitely learn something.

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.

The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study

Be purity of life the test, leave to the heart, to heaven the rest.

We don't know our hearts until life puts us to the test, and WWII fascinates because it was the last time everyone was simultaneously pushed to their limit.

I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what the words are in the original.

There is a division within the neo-conservative movement, which is, by the way, one of the tests of its authenticity as a tendency. I would say I was a supporter of Paul Wolfowitz.

I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us to third. Damn you, Finland!

Your closest and your most dedicated fans will be your ultimate test. They will test you.

North Korea conducted a nuclear test and the blast was so small that many scientists are saying it was a dud. Apparently, the nuclear bomb didn't work well because it was made in Korea.

When I was 17, I signed my record deal and passed my driver's test. It was a very good year!

The longer the test the better you feel when it's over.

Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.

Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.

I don't know what's funny and what's not so I test out all of my material in front of audiences.

As a footballer you always want to test yourself against the best.

All my TV shows are done live in front of audiences, and all the material I take on the road and travel with them test them for hundreds and hundreds of shows before I shoot them for TV.

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.

If this bloke's a Test match bowler, then my backside is a fire engine

England have nothing to lose here, apart from this test match.

Life is actually a series of tests. It's a social test, a happiness test, a business success test. You'd like to get A's in all of them.

Another reform, involves new screening tests for all applicants that include, and this is so important, especially if you get the right people. And we will get the right people.

I always think shooting dance is a sort of test of a filmmaker.

The proof of a man is the danger test, That shows him up at his worst or best.

What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?

Being unemployed is the true test of who you really are.

Power is a test - the test - of character.

Technique is the test of sincerity.

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.

How you ever gonna know if you're the best? How you ever gonna know what you believe in, if you don't put it to the test?

Most corporate decisions aren't going to meet the test of high validity. But they're going to be way above the low-validity situations that we worry about.

The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.