Tests Quotes
1910 quotes by 1455 authors
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I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
— Michael Phelps
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The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
— William Lyon Phelps
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Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
— John Pilger
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God tests His people through hardship.
— John Piper
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
— Ezra Pound
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I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
— Lisa Marie Presley
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Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch…
— Daniel Radcliffe
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You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly…
— Robert Redford
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I'm dating myself by saying this, but I was the test audience for 'Space Invaders.' I remember when that was the first game that wasn't…
— John C. Reilly
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Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.
— Ryan Reynolds
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
— Sally Ride
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Calamity is the test of integrity.
— Samuel Richardson
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
— Samuel Richardson
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The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
— Samuel Richardson
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The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
— Pat Riley
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement…
— Mitt Romney
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