Quotessence
Home / Topics / Tests Quotes

Tests Quotes

Browse 2780 quotes about Tests.

Related topics

IfsPeopleKnowsMenThinkingWayRealWantFirstsCharacterWorldWellsShouldBelieveDoeHumansMayTryingYearsHas BeensNeedsGivingPersonsFailingSaidIdeasKindMindChallengesChildrenFeelsEndsMeanSchoolAbilityReasonLongTwoWritingLife IsLooksMatterStillsTest Of TimeArtHeartRealityShowsUseLittlesResultsScienceTheoryFactsI CanAbleRunningUltimateEnoughLifeSeemsKidsMadeProblemDifferentFacesLastsFormSometimesStatesBookDoneImportantMoralReligiousScoreTeacherTestedAgeAnswersHandsInspirationalStudentsTubesValuesWholeWould BeGivenMightMomentsPlaySelfChristianHardCoursesDifficultJobsLyingOrderStudymore

Tests Quotes

“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”

MenLoveLifeHappinessSuccessWomenAttitudeFamilyTestsAngerBehaveQuarrelsBreedingPhilanderer
Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
Create image

“Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.”

MenDoeSimpleAbilityCarWillingTestsTrackDrivingNervesRacingCurvesShiftingGearsOvalQualifyingGrand Prix
Book:The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Create image

“Marc’s hand tightened visibly around Kevin’s fingers, his digits going white. Again. Both men clenched their jaws, Kevin in pain, and Marc in an obvious effort to control his temper and keep from breaking Kevin’s hand. Off. Why couldn’t guys find a more original way to test each other’s manly prowess? Arm wrestling might have been more subtle. Or maybe comparing the length of their…canines.”

MenWayHas BeensHandsMightPainGuyWhiteEffortArmsTestsOriginalsFingersObviousCompareSubtleLengthWrestlingTemperMight Have BeenManlyKevinCanineProwess
Book:Rogue
Create image

“Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.”

PeopleKnowsMenNeedsTwoYoungThreeCoursesKnownBabyCreaturesCapableTestsIntelligentSpeciesYoung ManFriendlyFrighteningAbsurdityManufacturingTubesRumoursHighly Intelligent
Book:Soul Mountain
Create image

“When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.”

IfsMenYearsBelieveMayIdeasLife IsFightingWishFreedomTheoryTruth IsTestsUltimateConstitutionTradeSalvationCompetitionRateAcceptedExperimentsUpsetImperfectFreedom Of SpeechProphecyFree TradeSupreme Court JusticeWagers
Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Create image

“In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity. They show up in robes, rags, silver sashes, or with muddy feet. They show up with skin dark as old wood, or in scales made of rose petal, as a frail child, as a lime-yellow old woman, as a man who cannot speak, or as an animal who can. The great powers are testing to see if humans have yet learned to recognize the greatness of soul in all its varying forms.”

IfsMenHumansHeartChildrenMadeSoulShowsFormSpiritSpeakDarkAnimalFeetGreatnessTestsSkinsRoseVariousWoodsScalesTalesFairyDivinitySilverYellowFairy TaleDisguiseTestingDeitiesGreat PowerOld WomanRobesRagsPetalsFrailShowing UpMuddyGreat SpiritLimesRose PetalsOld Wood
Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Create image

“There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.”

MenWayHumansMayMadeCharacterFacesLinesFeetDangerTestsDifficultyCrooked
Book:Taken at the flood
Create image

“We constantly see surveys that reveal this ignorance, especially among our high school students,78 percent of whom, in a recent nationwide multiple-choice test, identified Abraham Lincoln as 'a kind of lobster.' That's right: more than three quarters of our nation's youth could not correctly identify the man who invented the telephone.”

MenKindSchoolChoicesThreeNationsYouthStudentsIgnorancePercentHigh SchoolTestsQuartersMultipleTelephonesAbrahamSurveysLobsterHigh School StudentsMultiple Choice
Book:Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
Create image

“Soooo," Arriane said. "Now you've met Randy." "I thought his name was Cam." "We're not talking about him," Arriane said quickly. "I mean the she-man in there." Arriane jerked her head toward the office where they'd left the attendant in front of the TV. "Whaddya think-dude or chick?" "Uh, chick?" Luce said tentativley. "Is this a test?" Arriane cracked a smile. "The first of many. And you passed. At least, I think you passed. The gender of most of the faculty here is an ongoing, schoolwiide debate. Don't worry, you'll get into it.”

ThinkingMenFirstsMeanSaidNamesLeftTalkingWorryFrontsTvsMetsOfficeTestsGenderDebateFacultyOngoingChicksCrackedNot TalkingRandy
Author:Lauren Kate
Create image

“It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears.”

MenLifeYearsHeartEarthSongEasyTroubleTearsFlowTestsPraiseShiningSmilePleasantIrish Proverbs
Book:Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)
Create image

“It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed?”

MenYearsFirstsLongHas BeensHateSinTenMajorsTestsSevenCommittedRedemptionFewerFifteenRuinedDeathbedFifteen YearsLove Or HateFifteen Years Old
Book:The Heart of The Matter
Create image

“Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But I couldn't stand being made a fool of. I couldn;t stand being put on probation, like an office-boy, to see if I was good enough to be condescended to. I quite thought he was honest when he said he didn't believe in marriage -- and then it turned out that it was a test, to see whether my devotion was abject enough. Well, it wasn't. I didn't like having matrimony offered as a bad-conduct prize.”

IfsKnowsMenBelieveWellsMadeSaidEnoughWantedBoysHonestFoolOfficeTestsDevotionPrizeGood EnoughMatrimonyDid You KnowPhilipProbation
Book:Strong Poison
Create image

“Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality.”

MenSelfRealityUniverseSocialRealizingOughtProveIdealsTestsOnenessEgotismInterdependenceSelf SufficiencySufficiencyTouchstonesSocial Being
Book:All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
Create image

“God's command to have dominion over every living thing is a call to service, a test of responsibility, a rule of love, a cooperation with nature, whereas Satan's use of force for the sake of getting gain renders the earth uninhabitable. Brigham Young's views on the environment direct attention to man's responsibility to beautify the earth, to eradicate the influences of harmful substances, and to use restraint, that the earth may return to its paradisiacal glory.”

MenMayUseEarthYoungForceViewsAttentionResponsibilityEnvironmentInfluenceReturnGloryGainsDirectTestsSakeCommandSubstanceSatanCooperationRestraintLiving ThingsDominionUse Of Force
Book:Brother Brigham challenges the Saints
Create image

“I cannot believe they haven't yet come up with a better screening process than the mammogram. If a man had to put his special parts inside a clamp to test him for anything, I think they would come up with a new plan before the doctor finished saying, "Put that thing there so I can crush it.”

IfsThinkingMenBelieveI CanProcessPlansSpecialHavensDoctorsTestsCome UpFinishedCrushScreeningMammograms
Book:Seriously ... I'm Kidding
Create image

“Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?”

IfsMenMaySelfUseFacesAsksStepsDestinyMillionsDoubtToo MuchGainsTestsFollowingHungryContemplatingRecallsStarvingPoorestLife And Destiny
Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader
Create image

“It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply." God actually rises up storms of conflict in relationships at times in order to accomplish that deeper work in our character. We cannot love our enemies in our own strength. This is graduate-level grace. Are you willing to enter this school? Are you willing to take the test? If you pass, you can expect to be elevated to a new level in the Kingdom. For He brings us through these tests as preparation for greater use in the Kingdom. You must pass the test first.”

IfsMenFirstsCharacterUseSchoolOrderHurtLevelsEnemyGreaterGraceWillingConflictTestsDeeperAccomplishStormKingdomsPreparationBlessGraduatesDoubtful
Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
Create image

“Religion must be used in furthering great works of justice and reform. It must be used to establish right relations between different groups of men, and thus to make a reality of brotherhood. It must be used to abolish poverty, the breeding ground of all misery and crime, by distributing equably among men the abundance of the soil. And it must be used to get rid of war and to establish enduring peace. Here is the supreme test of the effectiveness of religion.”

MenDifferentWarRealityUsedReligionJusticePovertyGroupsCrimeTestsRelationMiseryEndureSupremeReformSoilAbundanceBrotherhoodGreat WorkEffectivenessBreedingAbolish
Author:John Haynes Holmes
Create image

“I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.”

KnowsMenMadeSchoolScienceValuesBornKnowledgeTeacherAmountBirthCapacityDeterminationTestsExtraordinaryDetermineAccomplishAccomplishmentAcquireGood ManRecallsAcquisitionEagerness
Book:Prejudices: Third Series
Create image

“Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native American, native born, immigrant, straight or gay - whatever; the test ought to be I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow. I'm building that bridge to the 21st century. That ought to be the test.”

MenBelievePersonsHardYoungI BelieveBornReligiousLibertyRightsCenturyBuildingOughtTomorrowHealthyGaySpeechTestsConstitutionHorseIndependenceBillsI Believe InCivil RightsBridgesNativeImmigrantsDisabilityNative AmericanFreedom Of Speech21st CenturyDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceBill Of RightsShowing UpReligious Liberty
Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995
Create image