Tests Quotes · Page 20

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

— Bill Paxton

I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

— Mayer Hawthorne

For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.

— Karlfried Graf Durckheim

I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.

— Amy Tan

You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.

— Annie Dillard

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

— Jane Addams

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

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?

— Edmund Waller

Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test

— Brigham Young

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

— James Madison

If you were to share your workout playlist with the world, I guarantee there's stuff on there that wouldn't pass the cool…

— Jancee Dunn

... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to…

— Brian Kernighan

The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your…

— Wendy Beckett

North Korea conducted a nuclear test and the blast was so small that many scientists are saying it was a dud. Apparently,…

— Conan O'Brien

When you get older, everybody sort of changes and moves away. I think that stands the test of time, when you have…

— Michelle Gomez

In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).

— Yasmin Mogahed

The play I was doing [on a Broadway ], I was playing an obnoxious, outspoken kid, so [the director James Lapine ]…

— David Krumholtz

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…

— Billy Childish

Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I…

— Hannah Whitall Smith

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the…

— Joel Osteen

Our understanding of what constitutes intelligence is utterly relative. If an aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, for example, all of Western civilization…

— John Robbins

I remember coming back from training one day and Simon Poidevin was talking to a priest. I thought...this was going to be…

— Phil Kearns

The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for…

— James Heckman

I think these debates coming up are going to be a test of who the American people like better, who they want…

— Rudy Giuliani

I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test.

— Mary-Kate Olsen

Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.

— Mary Engelbreit

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

— Anonymous

Unless i'm reading an assignment or doing a paper or taking a test, i'm thinking about you.

— Anonymous

The day you wind up single through divorce or separation is the day you get to test who you really are.

— Ernie J Zelinski

He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Edgar Guest

No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability--did he win?

— Charles Lever

Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.

— Stephen Covey

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

— Brian Johnson

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.

— John Wooden

Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same.

— John Andreas Widtsoe

Ukraine is the instrument for Russia to test the West's 'red lines'

— Lilia Shevtsova

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.

— Frank Langella

The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown.

— Ambrose