Top 100 Tested Quotes
#1. Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my assistants. Poor old Bennett ... he should be out of hospital in a couple of months.
Anthony Horowitz
#2. I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.
Radhanath Swami
#3. Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
Albert Brooks
#4. President Bush was in Los Angeles yesterday where he announced his new campaign theme - "Safer, Stronger, and Tested." Isn't that a condom ad?
Jay Leno
#5. Divorced?'
'Separated.'
He tested his thumb against the pricks of the rose. 'Women. They say you got all the freedom. Then you give them their freedom, and they don't want it.' ("Novelty")
John Crowley
#6. The Yesees said yes to anything
That anyone suggested.
The Noees said no to everything
Unless it was proven and tested.
So the Yesees all died of much too much
And the Noees all died of fright,
But somehow I think the Thinkforyourselfees
All came out all right.
Shel Silverstein
#7. The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.
Mark Twain
#8. I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.
Joe Namath
#9. Test everything that can be tested. As soon as you think you know something, that's when you stop questioning it. Understanding kills curiosity. Understanding kills progress.
Josh Hanagarne
#10. They (books) were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends - daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide.
Cornelia Funke
#11. The devil is about to throw some of you into prison, w that you may be tested, and for x ten days y you will have tribulation.
Anonymous
#12. The question is unanswerable because its truth can't be tested.
Jen Nadol
#13. There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
Idries Shah
#14. He was not a man to hide his emotions and if tested, his blue eyes would darken, gleaming like unfathomable gems.
Teresa Medeiros
#15. Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
Kate Atkinson
#16. 18 They j tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved. 19 They spoke against God, saying, k Can God l spread a table in the wilderness? 20 m He struck the rock so that water gushed out
Anonymous
#17. One of my hobbies is discovering Universal laws. Here's one: if you light a cigarette, the bus always comes immediately. I have tested this theory many years, its a golden rule. If you light the cigarette, the bus ALWAYS comes.
Martijn Benders
#18. Science is one , gods are many
science allows change and accept new tested things but religion not
science laws are same all over earth but religions have different
Er.teji
#19. Each time you prove yourself, you will be tested again. Each time, the tests will become greater. The more you struggle, the greater person you can become. Each test is not a difficulty - it is a precious opportunity. Be thankful for it. The more you suffer, the more thankful you must be.
Morgan Rice
#20. True love is tested when betrayed.
Toba Beta
#21. Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.
Paul Theroux
#22. Virtue tested: Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?
Khalil Gibran
#23. The most powerful call to action of anything that we've ever tested: Let's get to work.I didnt create that phrase. It came from Rick Scott, the current governor of Florida.
Frank Luntz
#24. These false answers such as, I am stone, I am bird, I am animal, I am man, I am woman, I am great, I am small are, in turn, received, tested and discarded until the Question arrives at the right and Final Answer, I AM GOD.
Meher Baba
#25. Technology has also had a big impact, especially on the bike. Now everything is tested aerodynamically, wind tunnels are used to optimize performance, and frames, wheels, water bottles are all tested. Even clothing, like my Castelli Stealth Top, is faster than skin.
Timothy O'Donnell
#26. We are a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that. We are cushioned by this kind of make-believe, unreal world and have no idea what we can survive because we are never challenged or tested.
Chuck Palahniuk
#27. Remember, it's very simple to have an oven tested professionally, and it only takes about five minutes.
Delia Smith
#28. Ugly ducklings often turn into beautiful swans when they are tested.
Sudha Murty
#29. My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.
David Knopfler
#30. With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that ... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
Rafael Palmeiro
#31. A hypothesis is empirical or scientific only if it can be tested by experience. A hypothesis or theory which cannot be, at least in principle, falsified by empirical observations and experiments does not belong to the realm of science.
Francisco J. Ayala
#32. It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.
Karen Blixen
#33. Tantrums are a noble and time-tested strategy,she said airily. Particularly if you have a good set of lungs and are facing down a crotchety old priest. I know Stewart; he always bends if you make enough noise.
Brandon Sanderson
#34. Love doesn't need to be doubted, tested or proven ... it's meant to be shown, shared, and nurtured. Find your strength in love ...
Sarah
#35. With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.
Dustin Lynch
#36. Why should people be dying from an invariably fatal disease while a potential cure is tested on animals who do not normally develop AIDS anyway? The
Peter Singer
#37. I used Agitator on some code I had unit-tested, and it made me a better tester. As an Agitar Fellow, I look forward to the leverage of working with an outstanding organization as together we continue to improve the value of developer testing.
Kent Beck
#38. We'll not be sending anyone into space before it is safe and the vehicle is well and truly tested.
Richard Branson
#39. I have experienced His presence in the deepest hell that man can create. I have really tested the promises of the Bible, and believe me, you can count on them.
Corrie Ten Boom
#40. Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired.
Nancy Friday
#41. Whenever I feel as if my faith is being tested, give me the grace to see you moving in my life to strengthen my relationship with you.
Amy E. Mason
#42. A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.
Virginia Foxx
#43. I'm just looking to make good movies and looking to be as good as I can be in them and that's about it. But I feel much more comfortable doing a comedy, but the fact that I got to try a few dramas, I feel I've tested myself a little bit.
Adam Sandler
#45. If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.
Wolfgang Pauli
#46. You must assume full responsibility for choosing to pursue power. Know that you alone have chosen to be tested, and then proceed without doubt, remorse, or blame. You alone are responsible.
Mike Livingston
#47. They just tested the tap water in Los Angeles and they found traces of estrogen and antidepressants in the tap water. So it's nice to know my son's going to grow up and have huge breasts but it's not going to bother him that much.
Greg Fitzsimmons
#49. The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Woodrow Wilson
#50. Love is all wasted, till it is not tested.
Love is all faded, if it is only tested.
Heenashree Khandelwal
#51. Physicists are interested in measuring neutrino properties because they tell us about the structure of the Standard Model, the well-tested theory that describes matter's most basic elements and interactions.
Lisa Randall
#52. We all get a little rush of excitement at the prospect of buying a brand-new outfit for a first date, but this is not the time. You're much better off wearing clothes, shoes especially, that you've already tested.
Nina Garcia
#53. America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.
Bill Frist
#54. I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
Tab Hunter
#55. It's important for me to show my children the richness of life and be a role model. I find that my organizational and management skills are tested more at home than at work!
Susan Wojcicki
#56. Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only after technology leaves the dock is it really tested. For human operators in control of a supposedly infallible system, complacency and overconfidence can take over, and caution may be thrown to the wind.
Henry Petroski
#57. A system that is comprehensively tested and passes all of its tests all of the time is a testable system. That's an obvious statement, but an important one. Systems that aren't testable aren't verifiable. Arguably, a system that cannot be verified should never be deployed.
Robert C. Martin
#58. It is a great day for the great state of Texas. The last person being tested for Ebola has come back clean. So Texas is now Ebola free. This was a big week for them. They're now free of Ebola - and Democrats.
Craig Ferguson
#59. When you're really tested, that's what shows you who you are as a person.
Rich Franklin
#60. The first two months were painful and they really tested my manhood because there were times I didn't want to get up because I was in pain. That willpower has to kick in.
Adrian Peterson
#61. I didn't know that my son had allergies until he spit up eggs one day, and one day he had a little peanut butter and his face swelled up. I took him to get tested and found out that he is allergic to everything.
Kym Whitley
#62. The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them.
Paul Feyerabend
#63. I hear these people saying [Barack Obama]'s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested. I mean, it's crazy.
Robert Gibbs
#64. Doesn't love have to be tested by reality and time, or else isn't it only a dream?
Jo Beverley
#66. Remember that any desire is tested; the greater the desire, the greater the tests.
Bryant McGill
#67. A time will come in your life, William, where your faith will be tested ... and you must stay faithful to the word and vision that the All-Father has given to you.
M.J. Chrisman
#68. The doctrine of the Church cannot be fully understood unless it is tested by mind and feelings, by intellect and emotions, by every power of the investigator. Every Church member is expected to understand the doctrine of the Church intelligently. There is no place in the Church for blind adherence.
John Andreas Widtsoe
#69. You will not really know where you stand until you have been tested.
Sandra M. Michelle
#70. The mind is tested with equations;
the heart is tested with pain.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#71. When you decide to live a totally surrendered life, that decision will be tested. Sometimes it will mean doing inconvenient, unpopular, costly, or seemingly impossible tasks. It will often mean doing the opposite of what you feel like doing.
Rick Warren
#72. Often it was the most unlikely people who found within themselves a spark of something greater. It was probably always there, but most people are never tested, and they go through their whole lives without ever knowing that when things are at their worst, they are at their best.
Jonathan Maberry
#73. [The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.
Benito Mussolini
#75. I want to be tested beyond my comfort zone. I don't want to be safe if it is more interesting to be dangerous.
Nicole Kidman
#76. Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.
Oswald Chambers
#77. I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.
Denzel Washington
#78. I did 'Nobody Walks' right after 'Dredd.' Well, actually, I got off the plane from Capetown where we shot 'Dredd' and tested for 'Being Flynn' that same day. Then I came out to L.A. to make this film right after that so it was all very back to back.
Olivia Thirlby
#79. Seeds pour out oil when pressed.
Grapes pour out wine when squeezed.
Herbs pour out medicine when pounded.
Flowers pour out perfume when crushed.
The gifted pour out excellence when tested.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#80. Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.
Steve Blank
#81. My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around with haunted, abused, surprised looks on their faces, like lab dogs on whom very personal deodorant sprays have been tested.
Anne Lamott
#82. There are about 50 or 60 recommendations [in "Win"] for how to communicate, not just the words themselves. All of them had to be tested. And in this short amount of time, it's just very time-consuming and very stressful to ensure that you get it right.
Frank Luntz
#83. I swiftly realised how grief sorts out and realigns those around the griefstruck; how friends are tested; how some pass, some fail. Old friendships may deepen through shared sorrow; or suddenly appear lightweight.
Julian Barnes
#84. Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site.
Alex Chiu
#85. A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.
Bertrand Russell
#86. Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.
Martin Seligman
#87. We have to adjust the age retirement for younger people. People of my income level are going to have to have their benefits means-tested. Democrats are going to want a simpler tax code.
Lindsey Graham
#88. Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.
David Quammen
#89. In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
#90. The very point of faith was that it must be tested.
Jojo Moyes
#91. The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
Christopher Hitchens
#92. Nitric oxide production by immune cells is one of the key mechanisms that our bodies use to destroy diseased cells. Enhancement of these types of immune responses is seen consistently with many medicinal mushrooms that have been tested by cancer researchers.
Paul Stamets
#93. Morality existed only in action. It arose out of action: was formed and tested in action: expressed itself in action. That was why we mustn't cheapen it with words
C.P. Snow
#94. If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#95. We all have powers within us that we don't know exist until we're tested. There are no limitations to what you can do if you have the determination.
Christopher
#96. Even my pathological love of Japan and its beauties, glories and eccentricities is sorely tested by 'The Grudge 2,' from Takashi Shimizu, a movie so bewildering and impenetrable that I believe it siphoned off a good 40 IQ points.
Stephen Hunter
#97. With 'Human Giant,' we tested almost everything live and made tweaks based on what worked and what didn't.
Jason Woliner
#98. But when people are tested, they gain strength. When they are broken, they heal stronger.
Hilary Thompson
#99. When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.
Terence Stamp
#100. I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.
Billy Childish
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