Top 100 Quotes About Tests
#1. I don't want to be in some relationship that's just about trading apologies when things get hard. Doing that won't make it all OK, you know? So, no, I don't forgive you. But I fucking accept you, including all the shit you do that tests my patience. Because I love you.
Liora Blake
#2. A release on September 16 quoted the claim of the assistant secretary for labor at OSHA that tests show 'it is safe for New Yorkers to go back to work in New York's financial district.' (OSHA's responsibility extends only to indoor air quality for workers, however.)
National Commission On Terrorist Attacks Upon The United States
#3. I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#4. When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.
Ban Ki-moon
#5. I screwed up. It's all on me. I know that ... All these hiccups I have, they must be for a reason. All this is just a test. I just don't know what the test is yet.
Greg Norman
#6. But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.
Robert Sternberg
#7. Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.
Floyd Skloot
#8. The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.
George Bernard Shaw
#9. The test of a quarterback is where his team finishes.
Paul Brown
#10. God makes no mistakes. In all our trials and dramas there are lessons. Life is not a playground but a classroom. Our journey through life provides the course work and the tests needed for our education and development.
Susan L. Taylor
#11. HH Beard has perfected ... 3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better ... in 1942 and onwards.
Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
#12. You must test your own religious claims and texts by the same standards you apply to other religions. If your religion's claims and texts fair no better, then your religion is just as false as theirs is.
Richard Carrier
#13. I'd discovered you never know yourself until you're tested and that you don't even know you're being tested until afterwards, and that in fact there isn't anyone giving the test except yourself.
Marilyn French
#14. Progressives wrote the Common Core standards, used money from the 2009 stimulus bill to bribe states into adopting them, and are now "vetting" the tests that will eventually shape the curriculum used by school districts all across the United States.
Glenn Beck
#15. I write about nuclear tests in Refuge - "The Clan of One-Breasted Women." With so many of the women in my family being diagnosed with breast cancer, mastectomies led to one-breasted women. I believe it is the result of nuclear fallout.
Terry Tempest Williams
#16. If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
Stanley Marion Garn
#17. Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.
Alfie Kohn
#18. Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test.
Rumi
#19. A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.
Henry Cloud
#20. SAT tests are designed by huge panels of experts in education and psychology who work for years to design tests in which not one single question measures any bit of knowledge that anyone might actually need in the real world. We should applaud kids for getting lower scores.
Dave Barry
#21. But things like long life 'n' good health, 'n' passin' six-weeks tests . . .
Harper Lee
#22. The whole scene made Dan think of American history tests, which were almost as scary as exploding museums.
Rick Riordan
#23. Our constitutional ban on religious tests for public office is worth less to the non-religious than the sheepskin parchment it was written on was worth to the sheep.
Unknown
#24. Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.
W. Somerset Maugham
#25. Hard times may test me, they cannot destroy me,
T. B. Joshua
#26. The greatest test of faith is when you don't get what you want, but still you are able to say Thank You Lord.
John Hagee
#27. I don't know what's funny and what's not so I test out all of my material in front of audiences.
Daniel Tosh
#28. The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
Sydney J. Harris
#29. One of the true tests to tell if a man's been raised right and is a gentleman is whether he stands when a lady enters the room - or
Lisa Shearin
#30. Big data has been used by human beings for a long time - just in bricks-and-mortar applications. Insurance and standardized tests are both examples of big data from before the Internet.
Jose Ferreira
#31. We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over.
John Bevere
#32. IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
A. N. Wilson
#33. Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.
Ingrid Newkirk
#34. No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#35. That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.
Frank Herbert
#36. Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.
Ken Robinson
#37. Indeed, life is full of tests. You don't know what they are, so you must treat everything in life with the same care you would bring to a test on which your future rests. I realize that the most important test of all, in my quest, and in every bird's quest, is the test to be the master of fate.
Nancy Yi Fan
#39. When you make comedy, you make it for the people and you try to have as many screenings and as many tests and you do focus groups and you read the cards and you try to give the people what they want in this comedy.
Chris Rock
#40. The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.
Jerome Frank
#41. I operate my life like a startup. I learn a little bit and I test something else out and I keep iterating and iterating until it's perfect.
Rameet Chawla
#42. Have a lot of conversations. Look at the implications of changing, but ultimately, you have to trust your gut. Test your conflicting advice as much as you can through research and conversations.
JJ Ramberg
#43. God doesn't give us tests that we can't pass, and he must have figured I could handle whatever was going to happen.
Thomas A. Middleton
#44. I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.
Bill Paxton
#45. Oh, fuck. Those kinds of tests. I wish I could empathize, but the only disease lesbians get from sex is lockjaw.
Tiffany Reisz
#46. Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tepmts empty posturing.
Henry Kissinger
#47. The only tests worth passing are the ones we set ourselves.
Gemma Malley
#48. Technique is the test of sincerity.
Ezra Pound
#49. I am asking teachers to understand that we must make the education relevant for the children. If they're only working for the tests or they're only working to please us, they're not going to be interested in school.
Rafe Esquith
#50. If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.
Boris Beizer
#51. Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.
Hal Clement
#52. Our civil position should not depend on the tests and problems we go through
Sunday Adelaja
#53. Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
Jeanette Winterson
#54. If you took an IQ test, the results would be negative.
Russell Lynes
#55. Superstition requires no tests, no measurements, no proof: just faith.
Mike A. Lancaster
#56. If the discipline of requirements specification has taught us anything, it is that well-specified requirements are as formal as code and can act as executable tests of that code!
Robert C. Martin
#57. I wanted my players to always be searching, especially for truth. I wanted them to know what they believed and be able to defend it. Truth will always stand the test of scrutiny.
John Wooden
#58. The new leaders face new tests such as how to lead in this idea-intensive, interdependent network environment
John Sculley
#59. We should always prepare for the tests that we know about. After all, there are so many that surprise us.
Suzanne Harper
#60. A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time, never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into account. He knows that if he wants presence, he must consult with nature.
Christopher Plummer
#61. I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.
Maurice Sendak
#62. When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.
John Perkins
#63. The trouble is that you won't get the scientists to agree on a course of action. It is almost instinctive in science to accept contrary views, because disagreeing gives you guidance to experimental tests of ideas - your own and those offered by others ... .
Frederick Seitz
#64. You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need to calibrate the film and see how audiences react.
Rod Lurie
#65. Our tests, our approaches...are ridiculously inadequate. They only show us deficits, they do not show us powers; they only show us puzzles and schemata, when we need to see music, narrative, play, a being conducting itself spontaneously in its own natural way.
Oliver Sacks
#66. Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him.
Mark Dever
#67. Parents test our patience more than anyone else ... Being around them keeps you in check ... that's what keeps you humbled.
Nouman Ali Khan
#68. The consequence of the demand for fast answers to complicated health matters is the endless demand for tests, diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals.
Archelle Georgiou
#69. There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.
Derek Bok
#70. Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
Noam Chomsky
#71. I've never had a surprise birthday party. I've had every other type of surprise. I've had surprise beatings, surprise drug tests, surprise daughter I think.
Dave Attell
#72. Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.
Hosea Ballou
#73. You love tests?"
"Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?
Nora Roberts
#74. Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.
Archimedes
#75. When I was a kid, my first dream was to play Test matches, and the second one was to play 100 Test matches because there are very few people who have played 100 Tests for India.
Virender Sehwag
#76. The Lord doesn't always take you in a straight line. He tests you sometimes.
Tony Dungy
#77. Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#78. A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
Pope John Paul II
#79. What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?
Edmund Waller
#80. This missile test reflects India's mindset, ... India's desire to control the subcontinent will never become a reality.
Rashid Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum
#82. The Supreme Court refuses to abandon its convoluted Lemon test. The Lemon test has created havoc, misunderstanding, and hostility toward religion.
Mathew Staver
#83. Directly after Rock Hudson's death came the fears that gay writers and actors and directors would be denied jobs; who knew if they would live long enough to finish a feature film or television series? And would the unions force directors to give blood tests and ban actors who tested positive?
Michael Shnayerson
#84. Aristotle and many others say men have more teeth than women; it is no harder for anyone to test this than it is for me to say it is false, since no one is prevented from counting teeth.
Andreas Vesalius
#85. God will use your mess for good. We see a perfect mess; God sees a perfect chance to train, test , and teach.
Max Lucado
#86. The hard thing about 'The Saint' was that my character was supposed to die, but then they reshot the ending based on tests and she lives. I created the character based on her dying - she would never have been as innocent otherwise. So I didn't have high expectations for that film.
Elisabeth Shue
#87. Designing well-written tests still remains a challenging task. Some complex questions may lose clarity causing difficulties in providing meaningful answers. Basically, questions should be designed in such a way that each well-prepared student can easily give a correct answer.
Eraldo Banovac
#88. The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.
John Hersey
#89. And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
Bob Schieffer
#90. In 1960-61, a small group of female pilots went through many of the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts and scored very well on them - in fact, better than some of the astronauts did.
Henry Spencer
#91. What lies between where you are and where you want to be sometimes requires traveling through the Twilight Zone.
Shannon L. Alder
#93. I'm like the kid that crams for tests and never remembers anything.
Joaquin Phoenix
#94. Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.
Derek Sivers
#95. True love makes a person reckless, makes them take risks and make sacrifices. True love tests the boundaries of our person, makes us yearn to be better and fight for the ground we stand on. I will fight for this love. Lie for it. Steal for it. It's worthy of that.
Alessandra Torre
#96. The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
Benjamin Franklin
#97. What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#98. Brain wave tests prove that when we use positive words, our "feel good" hormones flow. Positive self-talk releases endorphins and serotonin in our brain, which then flow throughout our body, making us feel good. These neurotransmitters stop flowing when we use negative words.
Ruth Fishel
