Test Quotes
2170 quotes by 1646 authors
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You can't test courage cautiously.
— Annie Dillard
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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood…
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.
— Ashton Eaton
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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual…
— Havelock Ellis
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
— Oriana Fallaci
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I don't know about living on an automatic pilot, but I've had times where I've decided to just test myself and my mettle, and for…
— Will Ferrell
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I left 'Saturday Night Live' without a film to go to, and I'd filmed 'Old School' while I was in my last season of the…
— Will Ferrell
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which…
— E. M. Forster
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.
— Mayer Hawthorne
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
— William Hazlitt
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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that…
— William Hazlitt
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And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?
— Thierry Henry
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Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top…
— Frank Herbert
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to…
— Hugh Jackman
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It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children;…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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