Test Quotes
2170 quotes by 1545 authors
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Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in…
— Art Buchwald
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It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of…
— Odell Shepard
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How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
— John Stuart Mill
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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
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Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the object…
— Claude Monet
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Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be…
— Dale E. Turner
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Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them.
— Michael Beckwith
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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…
— Barack Obama
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The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of…
— Wendy Beckett
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The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end…
— Joshua Reynolds
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A man doesn't realize how much he can stand until he is put to the test. You can stand far more than you think you…
— Martin Niemoller
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I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know.…
— Vaclav Havel
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I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than…
— Kevin Pietersen
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There's always pressure in test cricket we just need to stick to our toes.
— Kevin Pietersen
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Although we lost it has been a great Test and one of the best I have ever played in. Hopefully the next one will be…
— Ricky Ponting
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A child's job is to test her boundaries, a parent's is to see that she survives the test.
— Roger McDonald
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They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth will outlive human…
— Anna Deavere Smith
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The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by…
— R. H. Tawney
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Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us- Life is the test of us!
— Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
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When we feel an obligation to test the things we say and to find the boundaries within which what we say has validity, then we…
— Rudolf Steiner
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