Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Kornfield

This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.

Jack Adams

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

I'm optimistic. All the tests have been done and Anthony is progressing. We think he'll play.

Jaron Lanier

One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.

Kevin Pietersen

There's always pressure in test cricket we just need to stick to our toes.

Kevin O'Leary

(On soft launches) It allows you to test your assumptions and see which ones you got right, and more, importantly, which ones you got wrong. A big hard launch is expensive. Getting even one thing wrong can force you to go out of business.

Kinky Friedman

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

Niklaus Wirth

It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.

Harold E. Varmus

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

H. L. Mencken

There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.

Melissa Etheridge

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

Michael Owen

You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs.

Mark Pryor

You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate.

Michael Schumacher

I'm Michael Schumacher. I don't need to test my driving ability.

Oswald Chambers

The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.

Oscar Wilde

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

Madonna Ciccone

Don't go for second best. Put your love to the test.

Gregory Bateson

Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and in that way arrive at final truth.

Omar Suleiman

If you complain that Allah is testing you too much, you're failing the test.

Oprah Winfrey

I will not be taking a paternity test, ever!

Olivia Wilde

A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.

Nitin Nohria

Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.

Iyanla Vanzant

Without the a test you don't have a testimony.

Christopher Hitchens

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

Gerard Butler

Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built.

Henry David Thoreau

You don't know your testament when you see it.

Francesca Annis

You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

If you the best, take the test!

Jeffrey Zeldman

Test everything, including assumptions

George W. Bush

The resolution approved today presents the Iraqi regime with a test - a final test.

George Orwell

In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.

George Orwell

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.

George Carlin

Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.