Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like Coach. He's going to be fine, based on all the information we have. I was hoping we would play really well so he and his family could enjoy that in the hospital room that he was in.

Russel Honore

I think it's going to be a lower number, much lower than the 10,000. That 10,000 was based at a time when we didn't know what we didn't know.

Peter Franck

It comes from a time of optimism based on technology. It is a fake; it's clearly not an artifact.

Harvey Bennett

It is a lot of money, but law enforcement with their experience and expertise is used to making informed decisions based on their experience.

Paul Mott

I think the games in Baton Rouge will start in mid-December based on the parameters we got from the people at LSU. We're still in negotiations.

Alan Levenson

I think the bond market is stuck in a reasonable tight range based on a long bond of 5.5 percent, and I think the Fed is going to do nothing.

Chris Cox

We've been told by Wal-Mart that the decision would be made on a store-by-store basis based on demand. The NRA and our members will be watching closely to make sure they stay true to their word.

Bryan Colangelo

We talked a lot about the ways things unfolded in Phoenix the last couple of weeks. He encouraged me to explore the opportunity based on perhaps what we both looked into the future and saw.

Peter Miller

We're opposed to any employer's policy of discrimination based on sexuality. This is based on our reading of the Vermont Constitution and the U.S. Constitution as well. We honor the military and those that serve in it. Many of our students and faculty are veterans. But one does not preclude the other,

Rudolf Steiner

We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.

W. H. Auden

Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

Vinton Cerf

I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.

Will Self

Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.

Rudolf Steiner

In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.

Zachary Quinto

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.

Zig Ziglar

The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening.

Yves Klein

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

Ted Manning

I think it's a great concept. It's something unique to the market and something that hasn't been done before. I think they've created a niche people are going to understand.

Michael Cohen

I think it's a giant waste of money. I don't see a huge (environmental) downside to it, but the science still doesn't show whether it actually works. If they can create another 1.1 million acre-feet of water, that's a huge amount. I wish them luck.

Billy Donovan

He created and made some things happen. He made some very timely 3-point shots when they were trying to make a run.

Gilbert Arenas

He (Davis) bailed me out a little bit. Because then I'd have had to try and create and finish over a big man, which I probably would have done.

Eva Saint

He left it to me to create the character. Sometimes he would have a comment, and it was always right on the mark. Hitchcock worked the same way.

Jared Leland

What you have here is an equal protection issue. There is a trend in land use to prefer entities that create tax revenue and jobs.

Paul Parker

What will reinvent Alpine is if we create too many rules, create too much of a scene that obscures the value of a very cool, elegant, free sport.

Bob King

What we want to do is create a reference guideline.

Mike O'Cain

What we want to create with SSF is doing it the sportsmanship way.

Stephen Allen

What I'm actually doing is proposing to invest in Indiana. I'm actually talking about creating jobs here.

Robert Reich

Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.

Willa Ford

There's a million new people in the studio every day creating new stuff so I really had to be on my toes with this one so I could get it out before somebody else could.

Wayne Dyer

The source that creates worlds always is creating and loving, and it excludes no one. It is a source of unlimited abundance. It is a source that has no judgment.

Wayne Dyer

Faith is a way of going within and creating a sense of control over one's life at any given moment.

Roberto Orci

The point is just to create a discipline for making sure that you're creating material.

Warren Spector

Creating a really believable world is just insanely hard

Yoweri Museveni

The chaotic situation in Libya is definitely creating a threat. Libya now connects the jihadists in Africa with those in the Middle East and in Afghanistan. This could have been avoided.

Yann Martel

To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of yourself? You can’t. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever you go as long as you stay in the sun. And who wouldn’t want to be in the sun?

Patrick Barkey

I think it masks the state of the economy and understates the degree to which the job picture has worsened.

Mark Frauenfelder

I actually studied engineering in school - I have a degree in mechanical engineering. But, when I got out of school, instead of going to work as an engineer, I was in a band.

Ted Brennan

It got so hot those few weeks, I know it easily got to 120 degrees in there. The wine was literally cooked.

Sarah McLachlan

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

Ron Cameron

In the end it will be the market which determines the outcome and there is sufficient price tension to suggest another increase but to what degree remains uncertain.

Min Kao

I am a native of Taiwan, and I earned my bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University. I received my master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

David Orr

The Fed did not lower the fed funds rate, but their statement indicates a 180 degree about-face in terms of their view of the risks facing the economy, ... It looks to me they're ready to do what they have to do when they have to do it. They just aren't exactly sure when they have to do it.

Nobuhiko Matsunaka

I'm glad that the team needs me to such a degree but it's hard for me to give a quick answer.

Joseph Tacopina

This is manslaughter due to the degree of recklessness.

Warren Gatland

I also see my role over the next three years as developing players who can go to the highest level. We want all our NPC squad to be able to play Super 14.

Tony Dungy

I think we have a pretty good team. We're still young, we still do things defensively that need some explanation at times. We play very hard, we practice well, we stay focused and those are all good signs. We have a lot of talented guys, so if you can keep that focus, we should be pretty good. I think we are developing into a good team.

Mike Moroski

He ended up having a very solid last year, played very well and we were very pleased. He just seemed to be developing week-by-week until he hurt his thumb. He was essentially playing with less than two hands.

Don Porter

having done very well in the last 10 years in developing softball not only in the international level but also in the national level.

Hu Jintao

Regardless of person or political party and regardless of what he or it has said or done, we are willing to hold talks on developing cross-Strait relations so long as he or it recognizes the 'One China' principle and the 1992 consensus,

Jim Bowden

In the minor leagues the most important thing is developing players. The reason I want to win is I want to develop winning players. So my philosophy is you develop first, but I want to the team to win. I want the players who are prospects and developing learning how to win.

Noam Chomsky

In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs.

Margaret Arnold

In many ways this is turned into a developing country,

John Costello

All stores will be getting new lighting, paint schemes and new floor finishes within three years. We are developing an overall shopping experience that addresses our customers' aspirations,

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

Todd Taylor

Guys know that if they want to play, they have to earn it in practice. It doesn't matter so much who starts for me but who's playing well.

Winston Churchill

Half my lifetime I have earned my living by selling words, and I hope thoughts

John Davidson

There are some worries about will the earnings this year support the 2-1/2 year highs that the indexes have recently reached, particularly in an environment where interest rates will be rising.

Paul Krebs

I think the MAC has to earn respect. I don't think we've been very strategic. The league has recognized we have to do better.

Jon Burnham

I think the earnings are going to be better than expected, but I don't know whether the market's going to rise on that.

Jim Rise

It is frustrating from a coaches' point of view and there is a reason they are losing. You give signs out there and they say they don't see them. No one is going to give us a game, they are going to have to earn it.

Sidney Crosby

I was disappointed because I knew it was close, that I was in the mix. I have to realize it's up to me to earn another chance, though you don't know what's four years down the road. I still love getting up and going to the rink. I'm living my dream. I'm not taking anything for granted.

Peerless Price

We talked a lot and he did play a part in my decision, ... I'm comfortable with the situation. I know I've got to earn my stripes, earn playing time and I'm willing to do that. I'm fine with that.

Bob Paduchik

Ken Blackwell is either a huge hypocrite or very incompetent.

Shimon Peres

It can't happen as long as there is still shooting. Either there is shooting or there are talks,

Brad McClellan

He should either be running for office or be an impartial elections officer and not try to fool the voters that he can be both.

Clint Hurdle

Hitting a Major League baseball. I wasn't that good at either one. I think I've got the marriage thing nailed down now and that took me three tries. I know I can't hit the fastball anymore.

John Hobbs

It could have gone either way. It was pretty volatile there for a while. Thank God it didn't turn out to be a free-for-all.

Geoff Stump

It could have gone either way. It was close. I knew she had to be in the top two.

Jon Karkow

It could go either way at this point. There is some pessimism and some optimism. It's going to be interesting the whole way around.

Neil Shubin

It could either push itself straight up and down or pull itself forward. It more likely flopped around like a seal rather than walked like a horse.

Tom Hansen

We're pretty much in the range that's been publicly discussed, ... Four games plus either a fifth game played concurrently with them, or the 'plus-one' game, those are the major structural differences we're looking at. Or you could do both. Or there are various subsets within that.

Kobe Bryant

We can have all the excuses in the world. You can say we're young, we have guys hurt, but we just have man up and be ready to play every night.

Tino Martinez

It's the greatest feeling in the world. Those teams we had in the late '90s and won the World Series, they just loved our team for the way we went about our business, the way we worked hard. We weren't real flashy stars. We didn't make excuses when things weren't going our way.

Rhoberta PhD

Excuses are seldom truthful, often handy, and rarely productive. Dont make excuses: make things happen!

P. Herbert

I sort of fell in with the wrong crowd. Things started getting twisted, and instead of facing my drug problem, I made excuses and justified getting away with it because I was maintaining a job and family.

Hebbel

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses

Jarome Iginla

We'll try to have the same mindset for Game 2 as we did Game 1. Now hopefully all the excuses are gone and we can keep going.

Donna Karan

He was really the one man who was the voice of the designer. He understood us as designers, and then he could explain us to the consumer.

Tom Pecora

I need someone to explain this process to me.

Cory Lidle

I'll let them explain what happened, ... because I can't.

Juan Pierre

I haven't seen anything like it. I can't even explain it. It looked like we had everything in hand. To see the wheels fall off, it's a tough one to swallow, especially at this time of year.

Jessica Ross

I'm loving it right now. I'm having a great time. I can't even explain it.

Kristin Baker

I'm scarred for my mom. I can't really explain how I felt, but it was okay, just as long as it was saving my grandpa.

Drew Hall

I'm very stunned. All we talk about is going to the NCAA Tournament. I don't know what happened today. I can't explain it. Turnovers, me leading them in turnovers, just uncharacteristic things from a lot of guys. It's one game and done, and it's the wrong time for it to happen.

J. Horton

I know they're OK. I can't really explain how I felt when I heard that. I can't wait to see them. I just can't wait to talk to them.

Steve Hall

I just can't explain how he got 11 rebounds tonight. He just simply wants to be out there on the floor.

Sarah McLachlan

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

Lexa Doig

I'm more into thrillers than horrors. I also have a thing for period pieces. Science fiction to me is also a period piece. It's an imagined period.

Moon Bloodgood

I love science fiction.

Mike Lee

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

Octavia Butler

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

Andrea Barrett

I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It's a hard way to learn to write. I don't recommend it to my students, but it just happens that way for some of us.

Peggy Dillner

Students who tend to read young-adult fiction are female. Most male adolescents read nonfiction.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

Bobby Cox

I talked to Leo and I think he's going home and that's a big thing if a guy can do that. I think it's a good situation for him. He had a wonderful 15 years here and we move on.

Tori Rosenthal

Just seeing how some of those people lived and how little they had and how happy they are. It put in perspective what's important in life.

Jeff Hawkins

I swear my heart stopped. I was so happy when he was able to come back.

Jenny Taylor

Greer is just scrappy. They get after it. They may be small, but they play big. My kids play big, too, and I'm happy with the way they played and the way they've played all season.

Phil Savage

Happy New Year. I've really got nothing to say.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Go not, happy day,/ From the shining fields,/ Go not, happy day,/ Till the maiden yields.

Ray Elliott

He said if he was going to go down, he was going to go down in Larry Bird's jersey, ... We accommodated his request and he was just as happy as he could be.

Billy Beane

He's happy to be here. And he's quick to smile.

Mike Higgins

He's happy (about the trade). He needed a change.

John Higgins

It is a hard game, once I thought I was going to lose the game,but at last I won. I am happy with the result.

Mike Huckabee

I'm not against anybody. I'm really not. I'm not a hater. I'm not homophobic. I honestly don't care what people do personally in their individual lives.

Theo Epstein

had a lot of honest talks in that last week, reflecting on ourselves and the organization and the job, and whether it was right for me and for the team.

Dave Auday

Going into the season, I knew they were going to be the one seed in the Foothills League. I honestly thought we would be the No. 2 team and we proved it today.

Maria Sharapova

I think at some point I may be able to dominate, but honesty, I don't think I'm physically there yet and I don't want to go out there and say I am, when I'm really not.

Dan Miceli

I don't know anything about it, to be honest with you. If it's there, it's there.

Ike Taylor

I don't know and to be honest with you, I don't really care.

Kenny Leon

I don't have to make up what I love about Atlanta, ... This is going to be genuine, honest and heartfelt.

Beau Greely

I did think he would make a big run today. He's been a really honest horse. We've always hoped he would develop.

Larry Brown

I don't know when I will be back. Hopefully it'll be sooner than later, but I honestly don't know.

Michael Garcia

He knowingly, willingly participated in this crime, ... He wanted to kill, he intended to kill, and he did kill.

Jacob Frenkel

Not that (the justices) intended it that way. But it has that effect.

Ian Thorpe

It's not out of the question, but at the moment I intend to retire in Beijing.

Howard Stringer

Sony BMG did not intend to punish the consumer.

Phil Gramm

Quite frankly, I'd rather go to the dentist. But I intend to go,

Gary Condit

I've been married for 34 years, and I intend to stay married to that woman as long as she'll have me.

Joseph Fuiten

This isn't something we intend to just let slide. In the view of a lot of evangelicals, they have overstepped their bounds. It's muscle time.

Edward Brooke

I don't intend to leave the Republican Party, but I would like to move the Republican Party more to the center.

Alan Pardew

That's what I intend to do as soon as possible.

Larry Sabato

He could have made millions in the private sector.

Jeb Putzier

It comes out to $310 million more for the players.

Bobby Cox

He's getting paid $12 million because he can hit.

Stephen Breyer

He says, 'I've seen 50 million paintings, I know magenta,'

Walter Hagen

I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.

Simon McBurney

In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo.

Tom Williams

because it was the right thing to do for our 1.5 million employees. We feel that they need to be treated with respect and feel valued--no exceptions.

Casey Neistat

If New Yorkers reduced portion size to 16 ounces from 20 ounces for one sugary drink every two weeks, it would collectively save approximately 2.3 million pounds over one year.

Jim Patrick

I never though this team would go out like that. Not in a million years.

Dale Shull

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Corey Kline

He can't show any moves until the semifinals.

Kirk Hoza

He's big, can run and moves the team when he's in there.

Mike Rudd

He has something we can't coach; he has size and he actually moves pretty well for his size.

Mark DiCamillo

they haven't made any real moves toward organizing a campaign.

Troy Glaus

With the moves that they made, and things that they've been able to do, this team seems poised to make a run. We're young and very, very talented.

Adrian Beltre

Don't like them, ... I'm not comfortable with them. When you move, it moves around. I never wear one.

Jeremy Spencer

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

Rob Johnson

If something does happen, there are some restraint moves they are taught.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Thora Birch

I'm really lucky! I'm just cognisant that I wanna move forward, and people will let me or not; who knows.

Simon Spurr

People can take away your assets, but not your DNA.

Matthew Devost

There are a lot of smart people out there. And they will always find a way in if there is something they want.

Don Gould

You'd be surprised how quickly you get used to having them.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

John Hurt

I've done some stinkers in the cinema. You can't regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it's just the location.

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Doug Gottlieb

There are reasons why teams are 8-9 seeds.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.

Jim Rohn

Asking is the beginning of receiving...

Shawn Fanning

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

Richard Steele

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

Nicole Kidman

I'm now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.

Steve Harvey

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

Richelle Mead

See? Things are already looking promising.

Whitney Cummings

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

Wayne Dyer

When you have a choice whether to be be right or to be kind, choose to be kind.

Van Morrison

I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.

Walt Whitman

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Sarah Dessen

Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside

Roger Ebert

Now I see that all relationships are virtual, even those that take place in person. Whether we use our bodies or a keyboard, it all comes down to two minds crying out from their solitude.

Rod Stewart

All you did was wreck my bed and in the morning kick me in the head.

Laurie Levenson

It is my understanding that they have walled her off from day one and that she has had no decision-making responsibility in the case.

Richelle Mead

You understand your responsibilities better than guardians twice your age. You'll do what you have to do to succeed.

William J. Clinton

I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

William J. Clinton

When I was president, I knew exactly what I wanted to do every day to bring America together and create a greater sense of opportunity and a larger sense of responsibility and a stronger sense of community.

William J. Clinton

Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.

Sarah Palin

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

Richard M. Nixon

The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."

Vance Havner

It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.

Valerie Jarrett

A new era of responsibility is here.

Robert Toth

Truth in my love for the subject will produce superior results.

Zig Ziglar

Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.

Pat Barker

The result was I went nowhere.

Molly Ivins

The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

Pope Benedict XVI

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Ben Hatfield

We are very discouraged by the results of this test.

Peter Drucker

Leadership is all about getting results.

Peter Drucker

Results is all that separates one company from another.

N. T. Wright

The gospel is not itself about you are this sort of a person and this can happen to you. That's the result of the gospel rather than the gospel itself.

Richard Dawkins

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Rick Riordan

Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.

William Morris

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

Rebecca Stead

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Roald Dahl

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

Robin Williams

We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.

Robin Williams

To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. Not for acclaim, not for approval, but, the simple truth of that recognition. This has been the elemental drive of my existence, and it must be achieved, if I am to live or die with dignity.

Robert Quillen

The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.

Warren Buffett

You don't need to be an expert in order to achieve satisfactory investment returns. But if you aren't, you must recognize your limitations and follow a course certain to work reasonably well. Keep things simple and don't swing for the fences.

Larry Ceisler

It's tough, you're a state representative, you're sort of like the little fish.

MacGyver MacGyver

Desperation tends to make one sort of flexible.

Dwight Howard

It's sort of like I got it, but I've got to make sure I get a confirmation on it.

James Goss

It's sort of a temporary lease on the properties.

Jack Beven

It just sort of weakened and fizzled out,

James Comey

I view this as sort of a model,

Pat Riley

It will always be sort of game-to-game, I think, with him.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

They have used this sort of phrasing every so often,

Karl Pilkington

With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?

Will Wright

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

Wayne Dyer

Every obstacle is a test.

Leila Aboulela

Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you, insha'Allah" - Utaz Badr

Lois McMaster Bujold

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

Lord Chesterfield

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.