Tests Quotes - Page 29

It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.

Physical courage is a great test.

I will not be taking a paternity test, ever!

A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

And you're not going to tell me she didn't make a move on you. At least test the waters." "The waters," he said, "were not receptive." "If they had been, I'd have drowned her in them already.

When I wrote 'Kidulthood,' I didn't even know there was going to be a 'Kidulthood.' I just wanted to test myself to see if I could write a script.

The book [Manufacturing Consent] itself is then devoted to a series of case studies, selected, we hope [with Edward Herman], to offer a fair and in fact rather severe test of those conclusions.

The educational system is pretty much geared to passing the next exam. You're educated to pass tests and not to understand.

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?

I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.

You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right.

There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.

The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.

The test of moral ideas is moral results.

Ok to appoint atheists or agnostics-no litmus test of faith.

But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.

Is this some sort of test?" "Everything that doesn't kill you is." "Mind you," he added, "surviving doesn't always mean you passed.

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

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.

What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you.

When I was in 10th grade, I took one of those tests that's supposed to tell you what you should be when you grow up. The test told me that I should be a journalist.

I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.