The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
John Acton

We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea.
John Cameron

The only actress they didn't test was Garbo. Must have been her accent.
Judy Holliday

The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights.
Mark Kelly

Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.
Michael D. Barnes

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.
Sydney Brenner

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.
Peter D. Mitchell

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Tom Bodett

It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself.
Melvin Maddocks

A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.
Delia Smith

The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.
Bainbridge Colby

If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.
Valentino Rossi

That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.
Michael Baden

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Vittorio Alfieri

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.
Max von Laue

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
James Anthony Froude

We are working with a biotech company, Calypte, which has designed a urine test for the HIV antibody.
Luc Montagnier

So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one.
Pat Summerall

People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
W. G. Sebald

We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test.
Michael D. Barnes