Test Quotes

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.

Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built.

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

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

I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

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.

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.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

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

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There's no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

The only actress they didn't test was Garbo. Must have been her accent.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

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

These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test.

The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

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

We are working with a biotech company, Calypte, which has designed a urine test for the HIV antibody.

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.

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

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.

I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.