But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.
Alan Shepard

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.
Alan Shepard

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
Jean de la Bruyere

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
Franz Liszt

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Jacques Barzun

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
David Allan Coe

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
David Herbert Lawrence

You can't test courage cautiously.
Annie Dillard

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
Jack Adams

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Jean Nathan

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
Harold Acton

For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.
Mary Lou Retton

That wasn't because of money, it was because I had a job for the next two days and wanted to work. So I faked a test. That was over two years ago. Why has there been no issue about it since then?
Marc Wallice

But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.
Marc Wallice

If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?
Marc Wallice

They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment.
Wentworth Miller

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.
Brooke Foss Westcott

The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.
Jeremy Rifkin

The Finals are about a test of wills.
Bill Laimbeer

The answer I have is, you know, there a lot of things you can try to build to last. And what we try to do in our work is to come up with ideas that will last. Ideas that will stand the test of time.
James Collins