Test Quotes - page 4

We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects. (Laurel Clark)
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth. View quote
Val Guest
There is this quality in things, of the Right was seeming Wrong at first. To test our faith. View quote
John Updike
I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness. View quote
Isabelle Adjani
The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. View quote
Karl Barth
The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal. View quote
Louis Agassiz
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. View quote
James Buchanan
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be squared with the First Amendment. Under that test, juries can censor, suppress, and punish what they don't like, provided the matter relates to "sexual impurity" or has a tendency "to excite lustful thoughts". This is community censorship in one of its worst forms. It creates a regime where in the battle between the literati and the Philistines, the Philistines are certain to win. View quote
William O. Douglas
If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus [always, everywhere, and by all], as the sure and certain credential of its own infallibility. View quote
James Frazer
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, "Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home." And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Impressionism was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision). (John Singer Sargent)
I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off. View quote
Romain Gary
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility. View quote
John Ruskin
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. View quote
G. H. Hardy
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. View quote
Barbara Bush
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
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. View quote
Cesare Pavese
I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds. View quote
Morrissey
You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. View quote
George W. Bush
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home. (Thom Gunn)
Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed. View quote
William Cobbett
The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the - not so very - long run. View quote
Dean Acheson
(Coining the phrase ‘test of significance'): Critical tests of this kind may be called tests of significance, and when such tests are available we may discover whether a second sample is or is not significantly different from the first. View quote
Ronald Fisher
I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others. View quote
Nicholas Sparks