Tests Quotes - Page 20

In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.

I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse.

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

And took for truth the test of ridicule.

Some films could only have been cast in one way: Screen tests were given and the losers got the parts.

A relationship cannot survive the test of time without trust.

One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power.

Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

My doctor told me I was going to be marginal at this test and he'd given me some hope that maybe I was going to be OK. But when I went in and did it I realized I wasn't going to be able to pass it so I've been working on accepting reality.

The true test of faith is how we treat those who can do nothing for us in return.

You have to say, whatever it is that I say or do or think or teach must be something that will be consistent with who Jesus Christ was. So that is your ultimate litmus test, not that you've got specific words to say, whatever they may be saying. It is what is being said. They're consistent with the revelation of God that we encounter in Jesus.

When I am given a multiple choice test I choose not to take it.

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

You check the pregnancy test every month, and when it comes up negative it can start to wear on you

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

I want to make music that stands the test of time.