Tested Quotes - Page 19

• In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.

  Bill Bryson

  Science, Flames, Eyebrows

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.60, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I love what's left after love has been tested.

  Stephen Dunn

  Has Beens, Left

  Stephen Dunn (1999). “Riffs and Reciprocities: Prose Pairs”, p.100, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Positive, Courage, Disappointment

  Farewell Remarks to White House Cabinet and Staff, delivered 9 August 1974

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• Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

  George Eliot

  Selfish, Sacrifice, Judgment

  George Eliot (2004). “Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.110, Sparklesoup LLC

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• A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift. ....The Lord has declared that those who serve him and keep his commandments are called his servants. After they have been tested and tried and are found faithful and true in all things, they are called no longer servants, but friends. His friends are the ones he will take into his kingdom and with whom he will associate in an eternal inheritance.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Lds, Faithful, Inheritance

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• Well, I guess I’m just not as special as you are. (Urian) No one knows their true mettle until it’s been tested. This is yours. Whether you pass or fail is entirely up to you. I can’t tell you what to do, but I know where I’ll be tonight. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Special, Up To You, Tonight

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.273, Macmillan

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• Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are being tested out.

  Frederick Busch

  Book, Looks, Made

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• We went to the moon using just Newton's laws of motion and gravity. Newtonian dynamics we call it. So then we find out, "Well, this works because there's certain regimes we've never tested it in." Had we done so, we would show that it didn't work: For example, at very high speeds, very high gravity, Newton's laws fail. They just fail. You need Einstein's laws of motion and gravity. Those would be his special theory of relativity and general theory of relativity. Now you invoke those and it works.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Law, Special

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is a great day for the great state of Texas. The last person being tested for Ebola has come back clean. So Texas is now Ebola free. This was a big week for them. They're now free of Ebola - and Democrats.

  Craig Ferguson

  Ebola, Texas, Great Day

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• When you start out on a career in the arts you have no idea what you are doing. This is great. People who know what they are doing know the rules, and know what is possible and impossible. You do not. And you should not. The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them. And you can. If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do. And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Book, Possible And Impossible

  Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

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• children may need challenges and high-risk conditions in order to develop the self-generated immunity to trauma that characterizes survivors. To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

  Gail Sheehy

  Children, Order, Self

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• Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

  John Ruskin

  Taste, Causes, Purity

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.87, Courier Corporation

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• President Bush was in Los Angeles yesterday where he announced his new campaign theme - “Safer, Stronger, and Tested.” Isn't that a condom ad?

  Jay Leno

  Yesterday, President, Stronger

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• If self-driving cars are going to work - they're being tested now, as you know - the computers that drive them have to have lots of practice before they're allowed to get out in a real car on the roads.

  Peter Sagal

  Real, Self, Practice

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Anything that has low certainty or has a lot of impact should be tested early.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Impact, Lows, Should

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Hillary Clinton has a long track record of service in public life. And you can look at that. I tell the story about her being first lady of the United States, when the effort to get Hillary Clinton done failed, and that was a tough, tough, bitter loss, but then it tested her as a leader. And she worked together with Democrats and Republicans to get health insurance for eight million low-income American children in the CHIP program.

  Tim Kaine

  Children, Loss, Eight

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• It's an interesting arc. You start with a character [Doctor Strange] who's likeable and charming but very arrogant and distant. He's funny but you can see there are massive holes in his life. It's a very painful transition and all that he becomes is tested so quickly and violently.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Character, Doctors, Interesting

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, People, Doe

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• Religion can no longer rest its claims on a dogmatic supernaturalism, because any dogma that is irreconcilable with tested knowledge must be rejected... One sentence ... sums up the dark and deadly pages of Chistian history: "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities."

  Herbert J. Muller

  Believe, Dark, Atheism

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• A true friend is tested in adversity.

  Quintus Ennius

  True Friend, Adversity, True Friend Is

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• Regardless of communication between man and man, speech is a necessary condition for the thinking of the individual in solitary seclusion. In appearance, however, language develops only socially, and man understands himself only once he has tested the intelligibility of his words by trial upon others.

  Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

  Communication, Science, Men

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• Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.

  Tommy Chong

  Watches, Asks

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• The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Hammers, Purpose

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• People who think they can just do a non-stop flight to mystical, non-dual thinking, to get it out without going through the process, are usually not right. That's airy-fairy thinking. They have to wait until they are hurt themselves, or they are cheated, or lied to or betrayed, and they will see that their non-dual thinking is not tested, or truly a gift of the spirit. It's simply fuzzy thinking.

  Richard Rohr

  Hurt, Thinking, Gifts Of The Spirit

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good, oh, 200 times, I doubt very much that it's true.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Jesus, Real

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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