Test Quotes

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

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

I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair.

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

Calamity is the test of integrity.

I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor's office.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

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

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

I had to test a new terror in myself.

As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

We set up a beta site, a test site, with movie, music and book reviews. If you're reading them and you want to buy a book or a ticket for a movie that's reviewed on the site, you can do that without leaving our site.

I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

You have to test your ideas in a public forum.

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

My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection.

They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

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.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.

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

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.