The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.
I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.
She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws of ballistics, feral ravening, promised more delight. She tested it, shivering: I am meant to remember. Each clue that comes is supposed to have its own clarity, its fine chances for permanence. But then she wondered if the gemlike "clues" were only some kind of compensation. To make up for her having lost the direct, epileptic Word, the cry that might abolish the night.
It amazes me how little common curtesy people can show when their tested.
They pick me [to be tested for steroids] every time. I don't know why. I don't know if it's because I'm a big guy, or what, but all I know is all they are going to find is a lot of rice and beans.
I was my own worst enemy in my debut. Not one player tested my mechanics.
If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.
Good Day. We are privileged to live another day in this magnificent world. Today you will be tested.
Anything that has low certainty or has a lot of impact should be tested early.
I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.
Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested.
Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty.
A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.
A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.
You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested.
I love what's left after love has been tested.
Our weaknesses are always evident, both to ourselves and others. But our strengths are hidden until we choose to reveal them--and that is when we are truly tested. When all that we have within is exposed, and we may no longer blame our inadequacies for our failure, but must instead depend upon our strengths to succeed. . . that is when the measure of a man is taken, my boy.
You say your image is new, but it looks well tested.
You will be tested as a leader. . . . You may be tested with success, fame, and fortune.