Tested Quotes
395 quotes by 349 authors
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Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.
— Paulo Coelho
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Our weaknesses are always evident, both to ourselves and others. But our strengths are hidden until we choose to reveal them--and that is when we…
— James A. Owen
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She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws…
— Thomas Pynchon
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Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.
— Michael O'Brien
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Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
— Albert Einstein
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It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for…
— Isak Dinesen
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Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we're never tested to our limits, how…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.
— Graham Greene
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There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices,…
— Cornelia Funke
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If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.
— Jon Stewart
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Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being…
— Katie Couric
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You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?
— Fannie Flagg
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The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.
— Mark Twain
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The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to…
— Paul Johnson
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Well, I guess I’m just not as special as you are. (Urian) No one knows their true mettle until it’s been tested. This is yours.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe…
— Emily Giffin
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Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Mothers have a sacred role. They are partners with God, as well as with their own husbands, first in giving birth to the Lord's spirit…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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You should always aim to be your own mouse, Lieam. In fact...you already are. You are not so quick to jump into danger as Saxon…
— David Petersen
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For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should…
— Stendhal
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