Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

I'm optimistic. All the tests have been done and Anthony is progressing. We think he'll play.

David Beckham

As a footballer you always want to test yourself against the best.

Jack Adams

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

Isabel Allende

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

Franz Kafka

He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.

Jack Kornfield

This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.

Glenn Greenwald

The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.

Gregory Bateson

Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and in that way arrive at final truth.

Johan Botha

The tests went all right, but I was very disappointed in the results.

The tests that we have done have not substantiated these claims.

Francesca Annis

You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

If you the best, take the test!

Ricky Ponting

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 exactly the same.

Hilaire Belloc

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

Henry Cloud

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.

Tom Coburn

Senator [Sam] Brownback talked about those with disabilities that are destroyed in the womb because of a genetic test that is sometimes wrong. I would put forward that we all have disabilities.

Niklaus Wirth

It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.

Miranda Cosgrove

I had to take the driver's test twice. And they don't make you parallel park anymore, but you can't hit the curb when you're backing up. And I hit the curb.

Peace Pilgrim

Life is a series of tests; but if you pass your tests, you look back upon them as good experiences.

Peter D. Mitchell

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

Peter Drucker

Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity

James Russell Lowell

To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

John C. Maxwell

The true test of relationships is not only how loyal someone is when we fail, but how thrilled they are when we succeed.

Matthew Hayden

I've seen God. He bats at No. 4 for India in tests

Mark Russell

Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.

Mary Engelbreit

Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.

I test my bath before I sit, And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a bit Is so frigid upon the fundament.

Oriana Fallaci

Physical courage is a great test.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Ellen Glasgow

It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.

Swami Vivekananda

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.