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"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes." »Carl Sandburg
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"If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure." »Author Unknown
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"Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party -- the acid, final test." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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"We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity." »T. S. Eliot
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"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." »Ralph W. Sockman
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"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." »Ralph W. Sockman
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"This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go." »Unknown
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"There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past." »Noam Chomsky
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"Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it." »Milan Kundera
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"Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart." »R. Buckminster Fuller
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"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way." »Ernest Hemingway
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"All reactionaries are paper tigers." »Mao Zedong
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"A white wall is the fool's paper." »French Proverb
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"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." »Juan Ramon Jiminez
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"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart..." »William Wadsworth
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"If they give you lined paper, write the other way." »William Carlos Williams
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"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"A book tightly shut is but a block of paper." »Chinese Proverb
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"It has been our policy not to use obscenities in the paper. It's a harmless little eccentricity of ours." »A. M. Rosenthal
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"A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper." »Charles Dickens
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"A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood." »Mark Ardis
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"I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top." »An English Professor, Ohio University
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"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves." »Gilbert Highet
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"Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state." »Kathleen Norris
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"Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer." »Carl Sandburg
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"I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth." »Mignon McLaughlin
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"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning." »Bertha Flowers
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"An educated man ... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style." »Alan Simpson
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"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape..." »Pablo Picasso
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