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Quotes About Test

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
~ Mahalia Jackson
In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
~ Upton Sinclair
Most people fail to realize that money is both a test and trust from God.
~ Rick Warren
I was slumped next to him. He didn't pay any attention to me, but kept snickering as he drove. It was annoying. I had PMS and a test this morning. Boy, had he picked the wrong girl.
~ Jeaniene Frost
God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Did Indira Gandhi ask for somebody's permission to carry out the test in 1974?
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.
~ Robert Breault
The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It's as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.
~ John Steinbeck
A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.
~ Tennessee Williams
Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.
~ Nelson Mandela
My driving career is low, but musically, it's all pretty high. It's a test of patience, takes forever, but I guess that's the nature of the thing of life. I'm glad to be living the musical life.
~ Steve Kimock
The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.
~ Lin Yutang
Besides, a long poem is a test of invention, which I take to be the Polar star of Poetry, as Fancy is the sails - and Imagination the rudder.
~ John Keats
Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.
~ Michael Ignatieff
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
~ Elbert Hubbard
It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
~ T. S. Eliot
Uh, yeah, this is the VD clinic calling. Speaking of being positive, your test is back. Stop sharing the love.
~ Andy Rooney
The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.
~ Vladimir Putin
Stoic test strategy: when faced with a setback, we should treat it as a test of our resilience and resourcefulness, devised and administered, as I have said, by imaginary Stoic gods.
~ William B. Irvine
It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.
~ William Boyd
Furthermore, the initial page, always crucial, passed every test, with its promises and divisions, its portentous opening paragraph like the great door of a church, its exotic setting and strange names, the rolling orchestration of its prose.
~ William H. Gass
This is the first test of a gentleman his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
~ William Lyon Phelps
To pass the Turing Test the computer would have to do more than imitate. It would have to be a learning entity.
~ David Boyle