Top 59 Litmus Quotes
#1. I believe strongly that we should have nominees to the United States Supreme Court based on their qualifications rather than any litmus test.
John McCain
#2. I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.
Helen McCrory
#3. People talk about balance. Balance is an awful measure of things because it implies a scale that inevitably tips. I like to look through the filter of, 'Is the life I'm leading consistent with my priorities?' For me, my family is the ultimate litmus test.
Ivanka Trump
#5. It is about time that, atheist or no, we call a spade a spade, and outed lies, and suspicious statements are placed against the backdrop of a linguistic litmus test.
Leviak B. Kelly
#6. Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead inevitably to environmental awareness and can signal impending changes.
Roger Tory Peterson
#7. I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.
Barack Obama
#8. SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION.
Mark Batterson
#9. Most often, qualifications are defined by the credentials of the person who last held the job. If that is to continue to be the litmus test, white males will continue to be the top choice on any list, if the interviewer is also a white male.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#10. I won't use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue.
Ken Buck
#11. Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
Carl Hiaasen
#12. One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint - that courts should give substantial deference to the decisions of the political process. When Congress and the president enact a law, conservatives generally say, judges should avoid 'legislating from the bench.'
Jeff Greenfield
#13. WikiLeaks is really a litmus test for those people who walk the talk in the media. How much will they really follow their protestations to be brave publishers, and how much do they really want to lick the boots of power? Well, you can tell by their engagement with us and what they do.
Julian Assange
#14. Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then there's no immediate danger, no need to overreact.
Alan Bean
#15. A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.
Olivia Wilde
#16. But for Mozart love is only the litmus test. To determine whether one is truly free or not.
Andre Brink
#17. Compassion is the litmus test and culminating touchstone of a spirituality of Earth.
James Conlon
#18. Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.
Ted Sizer
#19. Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.
Ingrid Newkirk
#20. Are there a lot of designers that matter? The industry hasn't got a litmus test any more. The whole thing has imploded. Watch it die, like the banking industry
Louise Wilson
#21. You don't adopt a single child, you adopt the pain of the world. It's a litmus test of your incapacity.
Margaret Mazzantini
#22. If there is a time of judgment, instead of theological or institutional litmus tests, the only question asked about our life and spirituality will be "Did you love with abandonment?"
Robert V. Taylor
#23. History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the battlefield.
Saul David
#24. Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
John Pilger
#25. I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus.
Robert Casey
#26. Women and gay people are the litmus test of whether a society is democratic and respecting human rights. We are the canaries in the mine.
Peter Tatchell
#27. For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.
Paul Johnson
#28. This is perhaps the greatest moral challenge Jesus left us: We all do pretty well in love when the persons we are loving are warm and gracious, but can we be gracious and mellow in the face of bitterness, jealousy, hatred, withdrawal? That's the litmus test of love.
Ronald Rolheiser
#29. Ok to appoint atheists or agnostics-no litmus test of faith.
Mitt Romney
#31. A real litmus test for me is how people treat someone who is waiting on them. That's a dealbreaker for me.If I were on the verge of getting into a serious relationship and I saw that person be mean to a waiter ... I'm out.
Steven Soderbergh
#32. The litmus test used to discern if a house church is healthy is simple: The believers in a healthy house church focus on loving Jesus, loving each other, reaching those who don't know Jesus and respecting the rest of the Body of Christ.
Larry Kreider
#34. We went across the South on Super Tuesday without a single catcall or boo, without a single ugly sign. Not until we got to New York and the North did the litmus test of race and religion spout from the mouths of public officials.
Jesse Jackson
#35. A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.
Ben Lovett
#36. The problem with using our desires as the litmus test for holiness is that sin feels more normal than righteousness.
Jen Wilkin
#37. Love is the litmus test of whether we are really disciples becoming like Jesus or merely religious moralists using Jesus for our own purposes.
Jim Mindling
#38. Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.
Thom Mayne
#39. I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#40. My parents are always a great litmus test. Based on the amount of shrieks my mother gives when we're out in public, her constant shock when somebody comes up and says something nice.
Rick Hoffman
#41. Adversity is the litmus of faith, and only by continuing on in a spirit of total determination and self belief do we achieve what we set out to do.
Cash Peters
#42. The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
Brennan Manning
#43. I don't have many litmus tests, but this is one: Any candidate who doesn't understand that we need to balance the budget should not be president of the United States.
Jim DeMint
#44. There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.
Naomi Wolf
#45. The Republican Party will never again be a majority party until we regain the confidence of the American people. I believe there is room for disagreement within the party, and we should not have litmus tests.
Todd Tiahrt
#46. A taste of whiskey had changed her mood, as a touch of acid will change the color of blue litmus paper.
Ross Macdonald
#47. Attitude is that litmus test which differentiates a knower from a doer. Knowers have only the skills; doers have the skills and the will to do what they know!
Israelmore Ayivor
#48. A boat is sort of a litmus test for relationships, the close quarters and solitude compelling people into either a warm bond or into mutiny and murder. As
Nelson DeMille
#49. The litmus test for our success as Leaders is not how many people we are leading, but how many we are transforming into leaders
Kayode Fayemi
#50. One congressman asked 'I just want to know if you've accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior. The minister looked stunned, and he said 'no.' The whole table almost fell on the floor. The congressman was quite serious. That was his litmus test.
Jim Sasser
#51. Scorecards are common in the political process, but they are inappropriate in the judicial process. The most important tools in the judicial confirmation process are not litmus paper and a calculator.
Orrin Hatch
#52. Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo 's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at " capitalism " because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word .
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#53. I did not dwell on the issue of Europe during either the 2001 or the 2005 campaigns - despite it being a pivotal personal concern and despite seeing it as something of a litmus test for liberal democracy.
Charles Kennedy
#54. The litmus test for whether you are a competent forecaster is if more information makes your predictions better.
Nate Silver
#55. Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make.
John McKinley
#56. The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it, then I want to do it.
Brit Marling
#57. I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.
Donald Miller
#58. We all agree that there is no bright-line litmus test for what works in marriage, or what happiness looks like. That it all comes down to the two people inside the relationship.
Emily Giffin
#59. I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.
Jean Houston
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