A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed.
It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.
A race between Perry and Christie would test whether Americans would rather be executed or eaten.
The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair.
The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.
Scientists don't believe anything. Scientists test things.
The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish. . . . but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective.
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.
Business is the real test of the moral life.
It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.
With Christ, it is not how much we give, but what we do not give that is the real test.
Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.
Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.
The test, surely, of a creed is not the ability of those who accept it to announce their faith; its test is its ability to change their behavior in the ordinary round of daily life. Judged by that test, I know no religion that has a moral claim upon the allegiance of men.
Walls aren't put in our life to stop us, they are there to test how much we really want somthing.
Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.
The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.
We couldn't afford test screenings. This is a relatively low-budget movie [Don Jon]. But what we did have was the festival circuit.
Most corporate decisions aren't going to meet the test of high validity. But they're going to be way above the low-validity situations that we worry about.