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Quotes About Examination

I was terrified of taking the G.R.E.
~ Dana Goodyear
A careful examination of the information available, from previous counter-terrorism investigations, demonstrates that police have never come close to having to release any dangerous terrorist suspects as a result of time constraints.
~ Dominic Grieve
I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.
~ Wendy Davis
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
~ William Warburton
I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.
~ Paula Jones
The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.
~ Ellsworth Huntington
I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.
~ Karen Morley
I'm one of the most tested athletes in the world.
~ Lizzie Armitstead
Never in my life have I failed a test. I have never been opposed to testing and, in fact, have always been compliant with each and every protocol and policy associated with my competitive career in track and field.
~ Marquise Goodwin
That was when I realized I was leaving my footprints all around the room. The soles of my feet were covered with blood. While continuing to move around, I carefully examined the prints. Suddenly I felt like laughing. They were dance steps. The footprints of St. Vitus. Footprints leading nowhere.
~ Roberto Bolano
study. Something you can write up for the American Society of Shrinks—otherwise known
~ Lisa Gardner
She heeded Bluebeard's warning, thought Pandora was a fool. There are some memories better abandoned. Common wisdom demanded examination of the past, probing of childhood pain and trauma. Then—acceptance, release, and ultimately forgiveness.
~ Lisa Unger
Well, ma'am, he looked around.
~ Louis L'Amour
The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
~ Ronald Reagan
If you cross examine a child of seven or eight on his day's doings (specially when he wants to go to sleep), he will contradict himself very satisfactorily. If each contradiction be set down as a lie and retailed at breakfast, life is not easy. I have known a certain amount of bullying, but this was calculated torture - religious as well as scientific.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Ruso's working space contained three shelves, a collection of unmatched stools and chairs, an examination table by the window, and a desk whose migratory tendencies had been curbed by a previous incumbent with a hammer and several large nails.
~ Ruth Downie
To ask whether Christ is profound is blasphemy, and is an attempt (whether conscious or not) to destroy Him surreptitiously; for the question conceals a doubt concerning His authority, and this attempt to weigh Him up is impertinent in its directness, behaving as though He were being examined, instead of which it is to Him that all power is given in heaven and upon earth.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
El significado de esta existencia es que debemos ser examinados, ser examinados para la eternidad.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.
~ Matt Haig, The Humans
Dantes examined the various articles shown to him with the same attention that he had bestowed on the curiosities and strange tools exhibited in the shops at Marseilles as the works of the savages in the South Seas from whence they had been brought by the different trading vessels.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Crois-moi, on cherche mal quand on ne réfléchit pas.
~ Alexandre Dumas
In China, where equality of conditions is very great and very old, a man passes from one public office to another only after submitting to a competition. This test is encountered at each step in his career, and the idea of it is so well introduced into mores that I remember having read a Chinese novel in which the hero after many vicissitudes finally touches the heart of his mistress by passing an examination well. Great ambitions breathe uneasily in such an atmosphere.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
When the man was dead an examination disclosed the unmistakable marks of an animal's fangs deeply sunken into the jugular vein. But there was no animal.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Dr. Watson, "You see, but you do not observe.
~ Joe Navarro