Tests Quotes - Page 21

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.

After being out so long, I was more anxious to pitch than anything, just ready to get back into things. I can't imagine a better situation to test me against some pressure.

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.

I don't break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.

Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.

To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.

The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

I donated blood today. That's what I call getting an AIDS test.

Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.

My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.

On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength.

There are good one-day players, there are good Test players and vice versa

Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test?It reads, 'What wrong with this statement?' And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, 'What's wrong with you?

What you ride and how you choose to ride is such a dynamic part of what this contest [ Ultra Natural] is built for.

But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your Manchesters and Birminghams; and, in those Manchesters and Birminghams, hundreds of thousands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test.

Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.

It is easier with the right person. A good test of a relationship is how well you both deal with challenges. If one person is more invested, it shows. If you're with the wrong person, it feels like too much work. But if you're unhappy more than you're happy, it's not the right relationship for you.

The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.