Test Quotes

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but she had to pull the emergency brake so obviously there was a problem. I remember them handing me my fail paper and me just bursting into tears.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

I believe the 'Jeopardy!' test is more difficult than being a contestant on the program.

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

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don't test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen.

I think England will win a Test. My concern is Australia will probably win two.

If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?

The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.

Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.

The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan.

We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test.

I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F.

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 resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

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.

The answer I have is, you know, there a lot of things you can try to build to last. And what we try to do in our work is to come up with ideas that will last. Ideas that will stand the test of time.

I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.

The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.

They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.