Top 88 Litmus Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
If there is a time of judgment, instead of theological or institutional litmus tests, the only question asked about our life and spirituality will be "Did you love with abandonment?"
I believe strongly that we should have nominees to the United States Supreme Court based on their qualifications rather than any litmus test.
Any elected official who asks to visit my schools is welcome to do so; there is no political litmus test.
The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it, then I want to do it.
I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words
Words are the litmus paper of the mind.
The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.
I got several litmus tests for songs, but usually the people at the publishing company... they're straight-shooters.
I don't have children. I don't know how I would feel if my child brought home a different race boyfriend or girlfriend. I don't think I would have any issue with it. But I have no litmus test for that.
I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus.
A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.
I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.
My parents are always a great litmus test. Based on the amount of shrieks my mother gives when we're out in public, her constant shock when somebody comes up and says something nice.
A real litmus test for me is how people treat someone who is waiting on them. That's a dealbreaker for me.If I were on the verge of getting into a serious relationship and I saw that person be mean to a waiter... I'm out.
Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then there's no immediate danger, no need to overreact.
Women and gay people are the litmus test of whether a society is democratic and respecting human rights. We are the canaries in the mine.
Are there a lot of designers that matter? The industry hasn’t got a litmus test any more. The whole thing has imploded. Watch it die, like the banking industry
Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead inevitably to environmental awareness and can signal impending changes.
The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
I don't have many litmus tests, but this is one: Any candidate who doesn't understand that we need to balance the budget should not be president of the United States.
I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.
This is perhaps the greatest moral challenge Jesus left us: We all do pretty well in love when the persons we are loving are warm and gracious, but can we be gracious and mellow in the face of bitterness, jealousy, hatred, withdrawal? That's the litmus test of love.
Ok to appoint atheists or agnostics-no litmus test of faith.
I don't think there should be a litmus test on judges, no matter who the president is.
Compassion is the litmus test and culminating touchstone of a spirituality of Earth.
Compassion is the litmus test.
How many members of Congress go face the people in a town meeting and are prepared to answer questions from the floor. That to me is the real litmus test.
History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the battlefield.
Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
People talk about balance. Balance is an awful measure of things because it implies a scale that inevitably tips. I like to look through the filter of, 'Is the life I'm leading consistent with my priorities?' For me, my family is the ultimate litmus test.
I don't love the term gatekeeper because it feels like there's a negative connotation attached to it, so I prefer to go with litmus test.
I think part of the problem that the Republicans have is that the base has, in many cases, certain litmus test issues on which they are black and white on their thinking.
When real is gone, then there is no longer a litmus test for that which deviates from it. It's all real because it's all 'real.'
A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.
I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.
Where trial-court and appeals-court nominees were once routinely confirmed on voice vote, they are now routinely subjected to ideological litmus tests, filibusters, and vicious interest-group attacks.
With my songs, the question is always, 'Can you pull it off live, alone on just an acoustic guitar?' That's the litmus test. If I can, then it's a song I ought to record. If I can't, it's probably not good enough.
Our job is to make films that are inherently global and can really stand up to the audience litmus test of, 'Is it worth getting in my car, spending the money, and going to the theater?'
Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack.
There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.
I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.
One congressman asked 'I just want to know if you've accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior. The minister looked stunned, and he said 'no.' The whole table almost fell on the floor. The congressman was quite serious. That was his litmus test.
Scorecards are common in the political process, but they are inappropriate in the judicial process. The most important tools in the judicial confirmation process are not litmus paper and a calculator.
Birds are an ecological litmus paper.
I'm not that interested in labels or litmus tests.
Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.
Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.
I'm a Republican. I'm probably not the cookie-cutter Republican that fits the litmus test of Republican Party politics. But I don't want to be that.
Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.
Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make.
For me, the litmus test to know whether or not I'm doing the right thing is to examine whether my decisions are love-based or fear-based.
Basically my new litmus test for people is, do they make me hear about a blow job they gave in the first ten minutes of us talking? And if they didn't then I can feel excited.
My only goal is to make the crew laugh, basically. It's the only litmus I have to know, is this good or not?
The excitement does not change. After 40 years in the business, I still find the show to be a magical moment - the performance anxiety, the litmus test.
I continually ask myself if a decision I'm about to make falls short in the eyes of God or my family or my colleagues. It's actually a pretty simple litmus test: am I doing the right thing or not? The answer is generally an easy one.
My music is - there's no litmus test, there's no political litmus test for listening to it - but I am never going to compromise one iota to satisfy with someone who's uncomfortable with the ideas I feel in my heart.
For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.
The Republican Party will never again be a majority party until we regain the confidence of the American people. I believe there is room for disagreement within the party, and we should not have litmus tests.
A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.
I did not dwell on the issue of Europe during either the 2001 or the 2005 campaigns - despite it being a pivotal personal concern and despite seeing it as something of a litmus test for liberal democracy.
