An Acid Test Quotes

#1. Miss Huntingforest beamed at them. 'If you can eat cakes at eleven o'clock in the morning you're all right,' she said. 'It's an acid test, in my opinion. If a man can eat two cookies before noon and enjoy them there's not much wrong with him.

Margery Allingham

#2. Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.

Anne Tyler

#3. Friends disappear
or they are powerless.
This is what misfortune means
an acid test of friendship.
I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Anne Carson

#4. On an average, we celebrate 4-5 festivals per month. There are the major ones like Christmas and Diwali and then there are minor ones like whatsitsname-get-drunk-and-dance-in-front-of-temple-near-bomanahalli festival.

Rachna Singh

#5. Companies can add value and simultaneously promote themselves if their product or service truly improves the lives of their customers. I mean really improve lives, not wishful thinking, rationalization. That's the acid test.

Guy Kawasaki

#6. The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. The first questions naturally raised by a person emerging from the fog of childhood are the same questions that led Aristotle and other great philosophers to think and write deeply on the subjects of first philosophy and ethics.

Alan E. Johnson

#8. Prayer is the acid test of devotion.

Samuel Chadwick

#9. Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.

Bill Watterson

#10. Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK.

Ann Rutherford

#12. The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.

Margaret Thatcher

#13. I've been asked by lots of people, "What happens if you do kill yourself?" They want to know about what it would be like for other people around you, like the person who would find your body, the other kids at school, whoever would have to clean up the blood, what your family holidays would be like.

Albert Borris

#14. Look into the heart of each child. That child might be suffering and eventually they'll be an adult, but help them get to that next plane because they have something to offer.

Michele Bachmann

#15. The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your character is what it takes to stop you. Trust God as if it all depends upon Him, and work as if it all depends upon you.

Bob Jones, Sr.

#16. Our challenge is to find the compassion for others that we want them to have for us.

Sally Kohn

#17. You know how you can tell that you're getting really old? Nobody says the word 'death' around you anymore.

M. Emmet Walsh

#18. The acid test of any truth is found in whether it aids victims in their struggle to overcome victimisation.

James H. Cone

#19. It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. I related to the whole hippie, acid-test confluence of the early Internet. The idea that we should be open and interoperate with our data resonated with me.

Stewart Butterfield

#21. Great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.

Charles Bukowski

#22. Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.

Andre Maurois

#23. It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

Thomas Reed

#24. Prayer is the acid test of the inner man's strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.

Watchman Nee

#25. You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs.

Michael Owen

#26. Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality ... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.

Dan Simmons

#27. The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.

Lee Kuan Yew

#28. The acid test is that all paranoids and fundamentalists lack a sense of humor, for humor is a chaos flux and flexibility, of ambiguity and multi-dimensionality, and that kind of erotic liveliness is precisely what the fundamentalist is trying to eliminate in holding rigidly to doctrine.

William Irwin Thompson

#29. The acid test for any theology is this: Is the God presented one that can be loved, heart, soul, mind, and strength? ... If it fails to set a lovable God
a radiant, happy, friendly, accessible, and totally competent being
before ordinary people, we have gone wrong

Dallas Willard

#30. Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#31. The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else ...

Andrew Jenson

#32. Art is a creed, not a craft.

Tom Wolfe

#33. The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#34. A modern world, with so many choices for women, yet still very much a man's world, with little

place for compassion or community or flowery skirts. No, it was a world of business suits and

lawsuits, of committees and careful conversations.

Debotri Dhar