Quotes About Litmus

lot of folks in the Church today have litmus tests for religious they like and religious they do not like and approve of or do not approve of and one of them is the habit.

Travel, we agreed, was a litmus test: if we could make the best of the chaos and serendipity that we'd inevitably meet in transit, then we'd surely be able to sail through the rest of life together just fine. So far, we'd done pretty well.

I don't love the term gatekeeper because it feels like there's a negative connotation attached to it, so I prefer to go with litmus test.

Any elected official who asks to visit my schools is welcome to do so; there is no political litmus test.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.

My parents are always a great litmus test. Based on the amount of shrieks my mother gives when we're out in public, her constant shock when somebody comes up and says something nice.

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.

I think part of the problem that the Republicans have is that the base has, in many cases, certain litmus test issues on which they are black and white on their thinking.

I got several litmus tests for songs, but usually the people at the publishing company... they're straight-shooters.

SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION.

I don't have many litmus tests, but this is one: Any candidate who doesn't understand that we need to balance the budget should not be president of the United States.

The Republican Party will never again be a majority party until we regain the confidence of the American people. I believe there is room for disagreement within the party, and we should not have litmus tests.

A taste of whiskey had changed her mood, as a touch of acid will change the color of blue litmus paper.

Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make.

The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.

The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.

I don't think there should be a litmus test on judges, no matter who the president is.

People talk about balance. Balance is an awful measure of things because it implies a scale that inevitably tips. I like to look through the filter of, 'Is the life I'm leading consistent with my priorities?' For me, my family is the ultimate litmus test.

A boat is sort of a litmus test for relationships, the close quarters and solitude compelling people into either a warm bond or into mutiny and murder. As

Telling the truth wasn't sufficient power. As consolation the remaining journalists convinced themselves that no absolute truths existed. This new untruth they propagated as the new truth. The entertainment value, the ability to titillate or provoke, came to be the litmus test of any new truth.

The entertainment value, the ability to titillate or provoke, came to be the litmus test of any new truth.

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

Where trial-court and appeals-court nominees were once routinely confirmed on voice vote, they are now routinely subjected to ideological litmus tests, filibusters, and vicious interest-group attacks.