I've never had a surprise birthday party. I've had every other type of surprise. I've had surprise beatings, surprise drug tests, surprise… — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
When I used to do tours, I'd be anxious and nervous on the plane returning to New York. I now realize the… — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic,… — Michael Baden Copy Share Image
Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The high stakes test culture runs almost totally counter to what we know about how people learn. It causes us to engage… — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Tests showed cancer of the larynx and the doctor advised an operation immediately. I was informed that my larynx had to be… — Jurgen Neukirch Copy Share Image
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can notbe great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I write about nuclear tests in Refuge - "The Clan of One-Breasted Women." With so many of the women in my family… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But… — Laura Z. Hobson Copy Share Image
Art. Its definitions are legion, its meanings multitudinous, its importance often debated. But amid the many contradictory definitions of art, one has… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it's the only way you can… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play. — Howard Bloom Copy Share Image
“Everyone else believes in you. The major problem is that not all can let you know as in the way you may… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The main reason I like UFC is not just the martial arts aspect, but it's about one person against the other person.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you've made a… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
When things go right and you test properly and you find equipment that's better than what you were playing, then you can… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
Every liberal on the campaign trail has a plan to deliver free, socialized medicine, but no country on earth, folks, can possibly… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When I was in 10th grade, I took one of those tests that's supposed to tell you what you should be when… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
“What God asks of men, said Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
How to test?" is a question that cannot be answered in general. "When to test?" however, does have a general answer: as… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
“I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
I was one of five out of 100 people who passed the test, which just proved to me how little Americans are… — Ayshay Copy Share Image
Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us. — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
I so rarely have the chance to field-test anything. Amelie is so conservative about these things -Myrnin — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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