source: "Characteristics", Letter Concerning Enthusiasm, Part I. Sect. V, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 673-74, 1922.

topic: Sage, Examination, Tests

How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

topic: Coward, Tests, Ridicule, Ashley

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

topic: Humor, Sage, Tests

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

- Anthony Hopkins

topic: Nice, Tests, Chianti, Best Film, Census

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

- Antoine Lavoisier

source: 1789 Traiteele mentaire de la chimie ('Elements of Chemistr y', translated by Robert Kerr).

topic: Tests, Facts, Deceiving, Search For Truth

The true test of anyone's worth as a living creature is how much he can utilize what he has.

- Anton Szandor LaVey

topic: Tests, Creatures

A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life's test.

- Anuj

topic: Men, Tests

Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.

- Archimedes

topic: Discovery, Gold, Tests

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

- Aristotle

topic: Humor, Examination, Tests

one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.

- Arthur Koestler

topic: Self, Society, Tests

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

- Ashton Eaton

source: "Ashton Eaton throws off the uniform". Interview with Morty Ain, www.espn.com. July 11, 2012.

topic: Tests, Satisfaction

After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: â€œShe can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!â€

- Ava Gardner

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hands, Directors, Tests, Sensational

The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

- Bainbridge Colby

topic: Loyalty, Country, Tests, Good Citizen, American Citizenship

The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .

- Barack Obama

topic: Real, Failure, Tests, Perserverance, Success Or Failure

Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.

- Barry Bostwick

topic: Men, Years, Tests

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

- Ben Stiller

topic: Creative, Tests, Comedy

Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupations of free men, and its existences is a test of freedom.

- Bernard Crick

source: "In Defence of Politics".

topic: Men, Politics, Tests

To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.

- Bernard Emond

topic: Addiction, Tests, Limits, Life Wisdom, Our Dreams

I do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced. Your mind slides into a groove, and once it is in that groove, has difficulty noticing anything outside of it. During this time, my sense must be sharp; that is the main thing - to be sharp, yet open.

- Bernd Heinrich

source: "A Year in the Maine Woods". Book by Bernd Heinrich, 1995.

topic: Mind, Want, Tests

Longevity can't be the only test of love.

- Bette Greene

source: Bette Bette Greene (2011). “Morning Is a Long Time Coming”, p.294, Open Road Media

topic: Tests, Longevity, Tests Of Love

Allah has tailor made the test for each and every one of us and none of us will be given something which we can't bear. I am given something that I can bear and you are given something that YOU can bear. The tests won't be the same for you and me. This is why suicide is the a great wrong because by suicide you're basically declaring, 'Oh Allah this is too much, I can't take it anymore!

- Bilal Philips

source: FaceBook post by Dr. Bilal Philips from Aug 13, 2013

topic: Suicide, Tailors, Tests, Declaring

The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.

- Bill Drayton

topic: Ideas, Entrepreneur, Tests, Possessed

The Finals are about a test of wills.

- Bill Laimbeer

topic: Basketball, Finals, Tests

Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.

- Bill Nye

topic: Tests, Way, Facts

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

- Bill Paxton

topic: Hate, Judging, Tests

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

- Bill Veeck

topic: Baseball, Trying, Tests, Elasticity

I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.

- Billy Childish

topic: School, Levels, Tests

How to test?" is a question that cannot be answered in general. "When to test?" however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible.

- Bjarne Stroustrup

topic: Tests, Doe, Answers

commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the ***** test, you failed the IQ test.

- Bob Costas

topic: Baseball, Player, Tests

The test of your character is what it takes to stop you.

- Bob Jones, Sr.

topic: Character, Tests, Dependability

The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your character is what it takes to stop you. Trust God as if it all depends upon Him, and work as if it all depends upon you.

- Bob Jones, Sr.

topic: Character, Our Love, Tests, Dependability

After being out so long, I was more anxious to pitch than anything, just ready to get back into things. I can't imagine a better situation to test me against some pressure.

- Bobby Bell

topic: Long, Pressure, Tests

All physical and economic tests that may be devised are worthless if the immigrant, through racial or other inherently antipathetic conditions, cannot be more or less readily assimilated...

- Boies Penrose

topic: May, Tests, Economic

More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

- Boris Beizer

source: Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

topic: Design, Tests, Bugs, Testers, Computer Language

A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.

- Boris Beizer

source: Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

topic: Design, Tests, Bugs

A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed.

- Boris Beizer

source: Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

topic: Tests, Bugs

A good threat is worth a thousand tests.

- Boris Beizer

source: Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

topic: Tests, Bugs, Threat

If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.

- Boris Beizer

topic: Rip, Tests, Bugs, Software Engineering

Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.

- Boris Yeltsin

topic: Money, Temptation, Tests

A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.

- Boy George

topic: Crowds, Tests, Difficult

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

- Brady Corbet

topic: Gun, Tests, Auditions

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

- Brendan Fraser

topic: What If, Tests, Juliet

The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.

- Brendan Fraser

topic: United States, Tests, Process

The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.

- Brennan Manning

source: Brennan Manning (2010). “The Wisdom of Tenderness: What happens when God's firece mercy transforms our lives”, p.88, Zondervan

topic: Our Love, Tests, God Love

Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.

- Brian Herbert

topic: Important, Tests, Life Is

We see this as a test of their ability to face reality.

- Brian Johnson

topic: Reality, Tests, Faces

An effective way to test code is to exercise it at its natural boundaries

- Brian Kernighan

topic: Exercise, Tests, Way

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.

- Brian Schmidt

source: "Life, the universe and everything". "Q&A" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. June 18, 2012.

topic: Tests, Able, Problem

I want to make music that stands the test of time.

- Bridgit Mendler

topic: Want, Tests, Test Of Time

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.

- Brit Marling

topic: Roles, Want, Tests

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

- Brooke Elliott

source: "'Drop Dead Diva' Finale: Brooke Elliott on the Series Ending and What She'll Miss About Jane (Q&A)". Interview with Kimberly Nordyke, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 20, 2014.

topic: Ideas, Tests, Circumstances, Test Of Time

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

- Brooke Westcott

source: Brooke Foss Westcott (1887). “Social Aspects of Christianity”

topic: Love, Suffering, Tests, Tests Of Love

I still have nightmares about taking tests.

- Bruce Jenner

source: "Peter Molyneux: The Man Behind The Mask". Interview with Martin Robinson, www.ign.com. March 17, 2011.

topic: Tests, Nightmare, Stills

I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.

- Bryan Shelton

topic: Tests, Poultry, Clients

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Real, Dirty, Tests

Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Real, Risk, Tests, Grief Observed

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.

- Carl Sandburg

topic: Tests, Valor, Remembrance Day, Thank A Veteran

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

- Caroline Leavitt

topic: Teacher, Jesus, Tests, Quiz, Third Grade

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

- Charles Alexander Eastman

topic: Civilization, Blood, Tests

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

- Charles Alexander Eastman

topic: Character, Tests, Test Of Character

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

- Charles Krauthammer

topic: Mind, Lions, Tests

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.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Choices, Three, Tests

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Heartache, Trials, Tests

God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony.

- Christine Caine

topic: Past, Trials, Tests, Undaunted, God Is Able

There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.

- Chuck Jones

topic: Children, Book, Tests

You check the pregnancy test every month, and when it comes up negative it can start to wear on you

- Cindy Margolis

source: "Margolis tackles off-screen challenge" By Kat Carney, www.cnn.com. May 9, 2003.

topic: Pregnancy, Negative, Tests, Pregnancy Test

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

- Clara Barton

topic: Teaching, Discipline, Tests, American Red Cross

I like challenges that test your ingenuity.

- Colin Baker

topic: Challenges, Tests, Ingenuity

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

- Conor Maynard

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Years, Records, Tests, Good Years

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

- Conrad Hall

topic: Tests, Aptitude, Aptitude Test

The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

- Criss Jami

topic: Real, Love Is, Tests, Tests Of Love

The longer the test the better you feel when it's over.

- Cynthia Lewis

topic: Teaching, Tests, Feels

Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.

- Daniel Keys Moran

topic: Errors, Tests, Handle

In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

- Dave Barry

topic: Doe, Tests, Aptitude, Aptitude Test, Scholastics

Teachers assess to test; educators assess to assist learning.

- Dave Carter

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Tests

Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.

- David Deida

topic: Tests, Celebration, Life Is, Superior Man

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

- David Deutsch

source: David Deutsch (2011). “The Fabric of Reality”, p.13, Penguin UK

topic: Majority, Tests, Failing

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

- David Deutsch

topic: Tests, Failing, Explanation

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

- David Guetta

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Tests, Firsts, Beats, Djs

Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.

- David Herbert Donald

topic: Might, Tests, Lists, Pros And Cons

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

- David Korten

topic: Mean, Views, Tests

Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.

- David Lloyd George

topic: Confused, Speech, Tests, Lucidity

I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.

- David Maraniss

topic: Book, Focus, Tests, Test Of Time

The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the â€“ not so very â€“ long run.

- Dean Acheson

source: "Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department". Book by Dean Acheson, 1969.

topic: Running, Long, Tests, Poor Nations

I cannot stand no wack MC. So step back if you please, And don't test me, you're history.

- Del tha Funkee Homosapien

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Tests

To be creative, first I need to be really organized. If my apartment's messy I need to clean it. It's like before you start doing your homework or studying for a test, you have to have a clean room.

- Demetri Martin

topic: Creative, Tests, Rooms

Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Names, Excellence, Tests, Test Of Time

There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.

- Derek Bok

topic: Years, Tests, Dollars, Higher Education

Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.

- Derek Sivers

topic: Goal, Psychology, Tests

Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Believe, Tests, Gaza

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.

- Diane Arbus

source: Diane Arbus (1972)

topic: Photography, People, Tests, Traumatic Experiences

The true test of faith is how we treat those who can do nothing for us in return.

- Dillon Burroughs

topic: Tests, Return, Treats, Test Of Faith

Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.

- Donald Glover

topic: Thinking, Tests

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

- Donald Rumsfeld

topic: Decision, Tests, Guidance

Life is actually a series of tests. It's a social test, a happiness test, a business success test. You'd like to get A's in all of them.

- Donald Trump

topic: Business Success, Tests, Life Is

My doctor told me I was going to be marginal at this test and he'd given me some hope that maybe I was going to be OK. But when I went in and did it I realized I wasn't going to be able to pass it so I've been working on accepting reality.

- Doug MacDonald

topic: Reality, Doctors, Tests

Figure our what it is you don't do very well, and then don't do it. I'm not beating myself up about doing everything perfectly. The litmus test I always use for myself is: "Okay, if you won 20 million tomorrow in the lottery would you still being doing the same thing you are doing now with your life, Dough? The answer is "yes". I'm always very conscious of that.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Use, Answers, Tests, Dough

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Military, America, Tests

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

- E. O. Wilson

topic: Science, Religion, Tests, Blind Faith

The proof of a man is the danger test, It shows him up at his worst, or his best.

- Edgar Guest

topic: Military, Men, Tests

[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.

- Edward Teller

topic: Discovery, Challenges, Tests

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

- Edwin Land

topic: Tests, Faces, Indifference, Inventions And Inventors

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

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Positive, Tests, Fine Things, Inspirational Football Coach

So in every test, let us say: "Thank you, my God, because this was needed for my salvation."

- Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

topic: Tests, Salvation, Saying Thank You

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

- Elizabeth Drew

topic: Reading, Literature, Tests

It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.

- Ellen Glasgow

topic: Tests, Should, Prose

The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair.

- Eric Felten

source: Eric Felten (2011). “Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

topic: Loyalty, Despair, Tests

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Freedom, Tests

Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.

- Eric Liu

topic: Age, Citizens, Tests

Everything that originates from God will endure the test of time. Therefore, it is good to check out the origins of everything to make sure they were started by God.

- Eric Ludy

topic: Tests, Checks, Endure, Test Of Time

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.

- Erwin Schrodinger

topic: Successful, Tests, Accepted, Quantum Theory

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

- Etienne Gilson

topic: History, Tests, Laboratory, Great History

Power is a test - the test - of character.

- Evalyn Walsh McLean

source: Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.454, Pickle Partners Publishing

topic: Character, Power, Tests, Test Of Character

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.

- Evelyn Underhill

topic: Father, Tests, Cold, Coolness

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

- Ezra Taft Benson

topic: Tests, Life Is, Obedience, Obedience To God

I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.

- Faith Hill

topic: Kids, Tests, Reason

In the end, a theory is accepted not because it is confirmed by conventional empirical tests, but because researchers persuade one another that the theory is correct and relevant.

- Fischer Black

source: Fischer Black (2009). “Business Cycles and Equilibrium”, p.179, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Tests, Accepted, Ends, Conventional

You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.

- Francesca Annis

topic: Tests, Exciting, Be Careful

A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.

- Francis James Grimke

topic: Men, Tests, Pocketbooks

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.

- Frank Miller

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Character, People, Tests

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

- Franz Kafka

topic: Believe, Doubt, Tests

He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.

- Franz Kafka

topic: Doe, Answers, Tests

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.

- Fredric Jameson

source: Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

topic: Reality, Tests, Resistance, Exploitation

There are many things given to us in this life for the wrong reasons. What we do with such blessings, that is the true test of a man.

- Gannicus

topic: Blessing, Men, Tests, Wrong Reasons

Some films could only have been cast in one way: Screen tests were given and the losers got the parts.

- Gene Shalit

topic: Tests, Way, Loser

Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.

- George Crabbe

source: 'The Borough' (1810) Letter 3 'The Vicar' l. 138

topic: Done, Tests, Youth

And took for truth the test of ridicule.

- George Crabbe

topic: Truth, Tests, Ridicule

To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.

- George Gissing

topic: Understanding, Tests, Capacity

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

- George Henry Lewes

source: George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

topic: Artist, Vision, Tests, Vividness

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

- George Meredith

source: George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.5155, Library of Alexandria

topic: Women, Thinking, Tests

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

- George W. Bush

topic: Children, Silly, Tests, Stupid Funny, Literacy And Children

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

- George Will

topic: Spiritual, Children, Tests

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.

- George William Curtis

topic: Civilization, Tests

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

- Georges Duhamel

source: "The Heart's Domain". Book by Georges Duhamel, 1919.

topic: Memories, Good Life, Tests, Cherish Every Moment, Our Memories

...The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more than to be a Jew or a Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox. p. 361

- Geraldine Brooks

topic: People, Catholic, Tests

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

- Gerard Butler

topic: Tests, Enough

A good test case is a test case that has a high probability of detecting an undiscovered error, not a test case that show that the program works correctly.

- Glenford Myers

topic: Errors, Tests, Program

The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.

- Glenn Greenwald

topic: Citizens, Tests, Treats, Dissidents

It takes a little work to be a vegan, but now it's really possible to have tasty stuff and it's better for you. I say the best test is go as far as you can and see how you feel. Personally, I feel great.

- Grace Slick

topic: How You Feel, Littles, Tests, Tasty

I screwed up. It's all on me. I know that...All these hiccups I have, they must be for a reason. All this is just a test. I just don't know what the test is yet.

- Greg Norman

topic: Golf, Hiccups, Tests

Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and in that way arrive at final truth.

- Gregory Bateson

topic: Finals, Tests, Way

Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.

- Gregory David Roberts

topic: Thinking, Years, Tests

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

- Hal Clement

topic: Tests, Superstitions, Speculation

Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.

- Hannah More

topic: Integrity, Secret, Tests, Expenditures

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.

- Harold E. Varmus

topic: Tests, Fellowship, Depth, Harvard University

Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.

- Harold S. Kushner

topic: Biblical, Tests, Revealing

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

topic: Character, Tests, Virtue, Trustworthiness

MS Dhoni still the best bet as Test, ODI captain. No calmer finisher than Dhoni

- Harsha Bhogle

topic: Ms Dhoni, Tests, Captains, Finishers, Calmer

At the same time believers realise that the defects they see in one another are tests from Allah. For this reason they don't call attention to these defects, but compensate for them by acting positively. They carefully avoid the slightest action, facial expression or word that would suggest ridicule.

- Harun Yahya

topic: Expression, Acting, Tests, Facial Expression

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

- Helen Keller

topic: Determination, Character, Tests

So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond usâ€¦ But the test a loving God has set before us is not to see if we can endure difficulty. It is to see if we can endure it well. We pass the test by showing that we remembered Him and the commandments He gave us. And to endure well is to keep those commandments whatever the opposition, whatever the temptation, and whatever the tumult around us.

- Henry B. Eyring

topic: Temptation, May, Tests

The great test of life is ... not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.

- Henry B. Eyring

topic: Storm, Tests, Life Is, Storms Of Life

The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a test: He does it because the process will change us.

- Henry B. Eyring

topic: Giving, Justice, Tests

A test of your love for God is to examine your love for others.

- Henry Blackaby

topic: Tests, God Love, Loving God

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.

- Henry Cloud

topic: Doe, Tests, Love Respect

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

- Henry Ford

topic: Men, World, Tests

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.

- Henry M. Morris

topic: Elements, Tests, Impossible, Nevertheless, Supernatural Elements

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

- Herb Elliott

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Training, Enthusiasm, Tests

A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.

- Herbert V. Prochnow

topic: Loss, Littles, Tests, Motivational Diet, Funny Diet

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

- Herman Melville

source: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.1775, e-artnow

topic: Greatness, Men, Tests

Failure is the true test of greatness

- Herman Melville

topic: Greatness, Tests

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

- Hilaire Belloc

topic: Noble, Records, Tests, Lineage

Surely the right course is to test the Russians, not the bombs.

- Hugh Gaitskell

topic: Science, Bombs, Tests

A Test match is like a painting. A one day match is like a Rolf Harris painting.

- Ian Chappell