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Quotes About Test

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?
~ Samuel Butler
Clearly she knew that between book lovers, a novel is not a novel is not a novel. It's a symbol, an offering -- and sometimes a test
~ Sara Nelson
In every friendship, at some point comes a test. Never before in my experience, however, had it involved food.
~ Sarah Dessen
Nory was preparing to take a Big Test. The Big Test, for the second time. The first time had been a disaster. Nory was in fifth grade.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
One of the slight variances between the Stalwarts and their fellow Republicans the Half-Breeds is that the Half-Breeds, partly out of frustration with the Civil War sainthood of Grant, were clean-shirt guys more interested in stumping for mild civil service reform—a platform whose merit would make for a less stirring campaign song. A bureaucrat should pass a test, hurrah, hurrah!
~ Sarah Vowell
hidup yang tak teruji tak layak dijalani
~ Sarte
What you're looking for is an unusually strong reaction from a subset of the public, even if the majority hates it. The Dilbert pilot got an okay response from the test audience, but no one seemed enthusiastic. The project went no further.
~ Scott Adams
A paradox is something which tests your spiritual eyesight.
~ John Bailey
The true test of a man's character is not how he treats his friends, but how he treats his enemies.
~ John Buchan
Stupidity, he knew, did not recognize boundaries of color or creed. But he had come to believe that, like driving a car, people should have to pass a test before being allowed access to the Internet
~ John Connolly
Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.
~ David Deida
The only journeys worth taking in life are those that test us to the very core
~ Justin Somper
The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life is a temporary assignment.
~ Rick Warren
This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do.
~ Winnie Holzman
Life is a test and this world a place of trial.
~ Winston Churchill
Life is not meant to be an open-book test.
~ Alyson Noel
We're all being tested...That's what life is.
~ Brad Meltzer
You've got to realize that the world's a test, You can only do your best and let Him do the rest. You've got your life, and got your health, So quit procrastinating and push it yourself.
~ Cee Lo Green
Be purity of life the test, leave to the heart, to heaven the rest.
~ Charles Sprague Sargent
Mary will be required to exhibit total trust in God, which means "to abandon oneself" to the living God and the mystery of his will. Indeed, Mary's faith will be tested over and over again. And each time she will pass the test, "accepting fully and with a ready heart everything that is decreed in the divine plan."†
~ Edward Sri
Towards the end of World War II, Theodore von Karman had developed a liquid propellant research rocket at Cal Tech, which he named the Corporal...During the test in which a modified version of the Corporal had reached 80,000 feet, a general who was also observing the test asked von Karman how much higher the Corporal could go. Von Karman immediately replied, "Only to Colonel. Beyond that they don't work any more.
~ Edward Teller
The world is the great temptation. The great test. Those who chase the world have the world, but those who desire God above all else have peace of spirit. They made the choice to be free rather than happy.
~ Edward Weiss
A great man is not made simply by innate ability. Circumstances must give him the opportunity. These circumstances are often the malevolent conditions that surround a man and work on his character, almost as if they were trying to torture him. When his enemies have taken every form possible, both seen and unseen, and ally themselves to confront him with every hardship imaginable, he encounters the real test of greatness.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
~ Elbert Hubbard