Tests Quotations

I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse.

If I can get people to accept that a DNA test is nothing to be intimidated about, then we can do tests that determine how well you metabolise certain drugs and test for breast cancer.

A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.

The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.

I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.

Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.

I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

There is no better test of character than when you're tossed into crisis. That's when we see one's true colors shine through. So I try my best to make my characters personally involved in the plot, in a way that stresses them and tests them.

I'm really bad at tests of any kind, so I'm bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when I'm under the gun, I just fail.

What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.

We were promised that we would have Jehovah, Jesus Christ, as our Savior and Redeemer. He would assure that we would all be resurrected. And He would make it possible for us to pass the test of life if we exercised faith in Him by being obedient.

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

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK.

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

There was a moment in time where I was really focused on the Navy and I followed through with it - I passed the test. I was happy with myself because I was accomplishing something and I was really working towards a goal. That was the first true thing I invested my energy in.

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

No one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, reproducible evidence, and so far we cannot test the universe before the Big Bang.

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.

If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

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 overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

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 am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.

I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible.

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

Feeling pummeled by the outside pounding of tests and standards, a teacher can easily hide and simply turn to the immediacy of the classroom. It is not surprising that many teachers burrow in their rooms with all that they know about their students. There is no place to take the information.

I like the idea of love standing the test of time and circumstances.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

Being able to jump off a swing is actually a useful and meaningful thing for a child to do... those are the tests that help us understand the limits of our body. That's a positive learning experience that we deny children on a regular basis.

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.

The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced.

The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

First you date the songs, and then you get engaged and then you marry them. They have to stand the test of time, because they are going to be yours for the next 20, 30, 40 years. So you had better choose right

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.

I'm a risk-taker. I like to test myself.

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

I want to try out for Playmate actually. I talked to one of the photographers about doing test shots.

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.

I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

The test of any man lies in action.

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

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

If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.

A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides.

My aim is to play Test matches. For me, there is a different feel of Test cricket as it tests your character. You come to know about your mental toughness, and most importantly, there is another level of satisfaction as a player.

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

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.

It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.

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

Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.

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

When I was 17, I signed my record deal and passed my driver's test. It was a very good year!

When you're doing kidney transplants, you have to find out who can exchange kidneys with whom, doing blood tests to make sure it's true. You can't just work on the preliminary data. Then you have to organize the logistics.

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?

A demon, in a way, is a test of your faith. Because if you're doing God's work, there's no reason for any demon to do anything to you.