Test Quotes

#1. So are you conscious?" The alien robot - the skin the Miller construct was using - shrugged. It was strange how well the gesture translated. "Don't know. Seems like I'm acing my Turing test, though.

James S.A. Corey

#2. Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.

Sophocles

#3. The modern version of Buridan's ass [a figurative description of a man of indecision] has a Ph.D., but no time to grow up as he is undecided between making a Leonardo da Vinci in the test tube or planting a Coca Cola sign on Mars.

Erwin Chargaff

#4. Everyone is talking about sustainability and resilience, yet all that knowledge is thrown in the bin. [Lagos is] a unique case, but also a test case. It's unbelievably unique, but also it's now considered with a number of really generic opinions, generic solution, generic expectations.

Rem Koolhaas

#5. The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

John Ruskin

#6. I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.

Ralph Fiennes

#7. I'm a hypochondriac. Before I go all the way, I send the girl to the doctor and check them for everything. My doctor has a test to tell if you're going to catch something in the future even.

Brett Ratner

#8. Fraudulent and improper payments have long bedeviled Medicare, a $466 billion program. In particular, payments for durable medical equipment, like power wheelchairs and diabetic test kits, are ripe for fraud.

Charles Duhigg

#9. He picks up one of the tests and pretends like he's Harry Potter, aiming the test at random objects around the small bathroom yelling, I curse you with my magic wand, punk toilet paper!

Tara Sivec

#10. Well," said Knightley, chuckling, "You have given me the perfect test by which to judge any future infatuations; if I am willing to dance in public for her sake, it must be true love.

Barbara Cornthwaite

#11. Even if 1000 people test something and come up with the same conclusion, I can be the 1001st person to bring out a different result

Nauman Khan

#12. Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.

Jack Gantos

#13. Behind all the surface composure, there seemed to be a great darkness: an urge to test himself, to take risks, to haunt the edges of things.

Paul Auster

#14. There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'

Chuck Schumer

#15. Without a rest, test yourself against the best, and then try to find a way to be better.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of
any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

Douglas MacArthur

#17. Q: Why did the teacher jump into the lake? A: She wanted to test the waters.

Scott McNeely

#18. Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.

Daymond John

#19. Believing is a fine thing, but putting those beliefs into execution is a test of strength.

Kahlil Gibran

#20. Although I considered putting my eight years of Boy Scout experience and love for our nation to the test by joining the military, I did not want to put myself in a position where I might be commanded to take the life of another, and quickly ended my flirtation with military service.

Ashton Kutcher

#21. People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

Lisa See

#22. Money is a test from God which explains why it pulls your soul away from God.

Felix Wantang

#23. Donald Trump, pedophile - Donald Trump, polygraph test ... soon.

David Howard

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

Cynthia Lewis

#25. You want to come up with your own points of view first and then test them against what you see.

Roberto Orci

#26. If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy.

Michael Pare

#27. Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.

Ernest Lawrence

#28. My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done a ton of editing and refining and rewriting. When I write novels, I always make related scrapbooks to help me organize and test my intentions.

Dennis Cooper

#29. To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protects us from being discouraged.

Dalai Lama

#30. Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids' toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees.

Jennifer Granholm

#31. It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

Joel Osteen

#32. The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

Booker T. Washington

#33. The great test of life is ... not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.

Henry B. Eyring

#34. The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Toni Morrison

#35. Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith - the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in the crucible.

William Osler

#36. Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn't realize that "test" is normally a bad thing.

Rick Riordan

#37. That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.

Robert Harris

#38. What test?" Asked Nudge.
"Max, you're incorruptible."
"Only by power." I said. "You haven't tried chocolate yet.

James Patterson

#39. The true test of a soldier's mettle is to see whether or not they will cling to what they believe in, even in the face of impending death.

Matthew S. Williams

#40. It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.

Robert Genn

#41. Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

Aja Naomi King

#42. You don't know how strong something is until you actually test it.

Nicholas Sparks

#43. I'm Michael Schumacher. I don't need to test my driving ability.

Michael Schumacher

#44. I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

Jack Keane

#45. In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#46. I often say songwriting is like trying to climb down a ladder at night. You put your foot on the next rung and test it out and make sure it holds and then you reach for the next one.

Crowder

#47. I really love watching the 70s live performance TV series "The Midnight Special" and "The Old Grey Whistle Test". Those are the best performances you've ever seen, and they sound incredible.

Feist

#48. These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

#49. Theo Wanne has done it again!!!!!! He has brought a new dimension in mouthpieces that will not only stand the test of time, but will be a benchmark mouthpiece for many, many years to come! The bar has been raised.

Jeff Coffin

#50. Life is a puzzle, a riddle, a test, a mystery, a game - whatever challenge you wish to compare it to. Just remember, you're not the only participant; no one person holds all the answers, the pieces, or the cards. The trick to success in this life is to accumulate teammates and not opponents.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#51. When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.

Donald Bradman

#52. Sanity is a suspended state, moored in nothing but itself. You test the ground an inch in front of you, move forward as though it's solid. But the whole world is in freefall and you're in freefall with it.

M.R. Carey

#53. If I had to pull an all-nighter studying for a test or too many looming deadlines had me pulling out my hair, I wouldn't end up with just some trendy coffee addiction. I'd end up in a mini-coma, face down in the middle of the studio or on the floor of the community showers.

Laekan Zea Kemp

#54. Every Islamic value I had been taught instructed me to put myself last. Life on earth is a test, and if you manage to put yourself last in this life, you are serving Allah; your place will be first in the Hereafter. The more deeply you submit your will, the more virtuous that makes you.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#55. Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

Oscar Wilde

#56. He told me once that there was no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along
trying to wound his faith in order to test it
and I was just another stone in the way of his God.

Colum McCann

#57. The X had released its first wave of chemical optimism, I could feel it float up inside me like a big test balloon and splatter on the roof of my mouth, spraying good cheer. I could almost taste it, like a fizzy pink jelly.

Gillian Flynn

#58. So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.

Seth Godin

#59. The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

Eugene Kennedy

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

Brooklyn Sudano

#61. The triple-double is just a stat. It's a test of your strength and stamina and playing ability, really.

Oscar Robertson

#62. Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

Mahatma Gandhi

#63. Ultimately, the reason privacy is so vital is it's the realm in which we can do all the things that are valuable as human beings. It's the place that uniquely enables us to explore limits, to test boundaries, to engage in novel and creative ways of thinking and being.

Glenn Greenwald

#64. People will come to test and divide us, but, as long as we keep compassion in our hearts for others, they won't win.

Stewart Stafford

#65. During the screen test for 'Red Widow' was the first time anyone ever told me that I was good at auditioning.

Sterling Beaumon

#66. The final test of Afro-American studies will be the extent to which they rid the minds of whites and blacks alike of false learning, and the extent to which they promote for blacks and whites alike a completely rewarding participation in American life.

Jay Saunders Redding

#67. For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to relate to the inside instead of the outside.

Khalil Gibran

#68. I see Christina, emerging, chewing and sticky-fingered, between two panels of the tent. Partly out of bravado and partly in order to test what will happen, I bite her on the arm as hard as I can

Kathy Page

#69. The casting is very simple actually, but it is very important. You choose the best actor for the role, and you test them and you test them, and you bring them back, and you have to make sure the actors fit the roles.

Hany Abu-Assad

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

James H. Cone

#71. It is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don't, you are not testing; you are experimenting.

Brian Kernighan

#72. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

#73. She failed her drivers test. She couldn't get used to the front seat. It took her four lessons to learn to sit up.

Rodney Dangerfield

#74. The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.

Pope John Paul II

#75. What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

P. J. O'Rourke

#76. If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

Brene Brown

#77. Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

Terry Goodkind

#78. One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows.

Mitch Albom

#79. I think there is a potential civic culture in Arab countries that can lead to democratic institutions and I think Iraq is probably the best place to put that proposition to the test Well, you're going to find a disproportionate number of Jews in any sort of intellectual undertaking.

Richard Perle

#80. To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#81. The rule that science is the only way to know something is itself unscientific; it cannot be tested. So the claim
that only science can demonstrate truth actually flunks its own test, since it cannot validate itself!

Gary R. Habermas

#82. It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alteration between excitement and disappointment, doubt and revelation, to such an extreme that no one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#83. The military is sort of the ultimate test of proving that you're a man, and certainly that whole idea was very much uppermost in my mind when I joined the Army.

Peter P. Mahoney

#84. There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test.

Lady Violet

#85. One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart.

Linda Poindexter

#86. For me, relationship is very important. I can lose money, but I cannot lose a relationship. The test is, at the end of a conversation or a negotiation, both must smile.

Sunil Mittal

#87. Train that bitch to love you, a bitch like that, she's the type you have to train, and even then, she'll still try to fuck around on you and test the boundaries, unless you have something no other man has, but to her you're a dick, and her she likes big dicks and muscular men, I can tell.

Stephen Demone

#88. I am the great test! a blackened shadow-boxing colossus jabjabbered, pounding his gloves against the wall. The heavyweight will be quillweight. Bantamweight, even. Ain't nobody can dethrone me, beyond my ken! he boasted,* sidling up to his shadow.


*Mad Ali?:

Julian Rios

#89. I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English.

Louis Begley

#90. We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.

Calvin Coolidge

#91. But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

Neville Marriner

#92. Make sure you test your brand story's recipe with whomever you're cooking it for.

Laura Busche

#93. Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.

Tennessee Williams

#94. There's always a tension in my world between the pragmatic and the practical and the theoretical. I have a very theoretical turn of mind, but I also like to test things in place.

Michael Pollan

#95. Motherhood should be like driving a car
you should have to pass a test before you can do it legally.

Joan Bauer

#96. Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity.

Judith Butler

#97. Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all.

Swami Vivekananda

#98. Prayers and faith will not be enough, I'm afraid. The path of righteousness is often dangerous. Get ready, Vianne. This is only your first test. Learn from it." Mother

Kristin Hannah

#99. Sometimes you fail your chemistry test and other times it's explosive.

Bruce Campbell

#100. Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?.

Barry Long