Tests Quotes - Page 17

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair.

God tests, but he does not tempt.

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the test of love.

An effective way to test code is to exercise it at its natural boundaries

The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.

Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates an identification of the state with a religion, or with religion in general, ...or when the effect of the governmental action is to endorse one religion over another, or to endorse religion in general.

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.

You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.

Something about this made Reynie uneasy. Had he done so badly? Was this meant to test his courage? He did as he was told, closing his eyes and bracing himself as best he could. "Why are you flinching?" the pencil woman asked. "I don't know. I thought maybe you were going to slap me." "Don't be ridiculous. I could slap you perfectly well with your eyes open. I'm only going to blindfold you.

I was ten. I had noticed something was weird earlier in the day, but I knew from commercials that one's menstrual period was a blue liquid that you poured like laundry detergent onto maxi pads to test their absorbency. This wasn't blue, so... I ignored it for a few hours.

When things go right and you test properly and you find equipment that's better than what you were playing, then you can do some pretty neat things on the golf course.

There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS.

The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood.

I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.