There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.
The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.
But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.
[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.
The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.
Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder
With 'The Elder Scrolls', you're looking at a 25-year-running franchise. It has stood the test of the 'Lord of the Rings' movies becoming popular.
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
But yes, I'm going to miss being a part of the team, sharing a dressing room, playing a test match, all those kinds of things.
Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.
1. Don't be boring.
2. Be able to pass the airport test; be interesting enough to carry on a 3 hour conversation with a stranger.
3. When in doubt, do what you can never do again.
Since I'd developed this fear of not remembering my lines, I took 'Mulholland Drive' as a test for myself. It was a long monologue: no one else speaks.
It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.
I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.
Almost any questions can be answered,cheaply, quickly and finally, by a test campaign. And that's he way to answer them - not by arguments around a table
Animals represent the abstract notion of acceptance. Living with these funny creatures - you kind of have to accept them. It's like a test in a way.
The test of our religion is whether it fits us to meet emergencies. A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
I was one of five out of 100 people who passed the test, which just proved to me how little Americans are taught geography.
I always wanted to be involved with music that would stand the test of time, being on one of those definitive things that you have to have listened to at some point.
It's the journey that matters. Learning is more important than the test. Practice well, and the games will take care of themselves.
Since my international debut in 2014 the miles on the clock have probably crept up and Test cricket is the level where the pressure and scrutiny are greatest.
We all hit moments when we feel helpless. The test is how we react to that feeling. We can either learn from it and move forward or let it drag us down.
I have been given a fantastic opportunity to captain the Test side and will continue to work very hard at doing my best at that.
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.
After a test match it's very easy to make selections, once you've seen exactly how the surface is going to play.
O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell.
Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.
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
Uh, yeah, this is the VD clinic calling. Speaking of being positive, your test is back. Stop sharing the love.
That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when they've finished the program.
Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.
Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.
If you play 100-odd Test matches, there's going to be little periods when you don't score runs, and I've always managed to turn it around.
The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.
The stats suggest that I'm not a dasher. It doesn't mean I can't play the shots, but when you find a method in four-day and Test cricket that works for you, you stick with it.
I'm disappointed people don't recognise what I did in Test cricket. For an opening batsman to get two triple centuries? A lot of greats haven't got one.
My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it's the only way you can test how far you can really go.
I used to practice at the hockey ground on synthetic surface while I was in the sports hostel, so Test cricket is certainly going to be a challenge for me.
Ocampo is very dangerous because he has nothing to lose. I want a guy who's going to test me so the crowd gets its money's worth.
Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.
What we have done with No Child Left Behind is squeeze the creativity out of the classroom because teachers have begun to just teaching to the test.
I've always wanted to play Test cricket from a young age and that's what you dream about. But you have to make sure you can contribute regardless of the format.
Part of the fun is finding out how elastic that box is and, you know, test the limits of what TV shows can do or what a music video can do.
Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?'
Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.
In the IPL the batters have to come at you, whereas in Test cricket they can sit on you for a full session if they want and if the pitch is dead there is nothing you can do about it.
If a test showed you had telomere shortening, it would be a red flag suggesting you should take a look at possible risk factors.
Having to play Test matches for a month and then switch to T20s in five days is not easy, but that's the kind of challenge I love to face.
Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them.
Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.
Though situations and circumstances arise which sometimes test our faith and patience, the Lord can be trusted to see us through.
India's nuclear-test blasts have pretty much put to rest the myth of Indians being peace-loving Gandhians.
In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.
I couldn't pass a senior high school math test right now, but I could probably teach intellectual property and trademark law at Harvard.
My first trip as a captain against Pakistan in 2003 - we had never won there before, but then we won both the Test Matches and One-Days.
It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.
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