Test Quotes

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn't think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star.

My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.

Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice?

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

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when they've finished the program.

In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

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.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.

The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.

There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

I think it's time to have a celebration of life and renew our vows. And this time we're going to write the vows because they're going to mean a lot more. We certainly put the 'in sickness and in health' vow to the test the last year and half.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

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

Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

We were flying on a winged vehicle that would do reentry different than we had ever done before. So all of those were firsts. Test pilots truly love firsts.

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.