The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.
This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.
On 'Taxi,' I had the great fortune of directing many wonderful episodes, none more classic than Reverend Jim's driving test. It was maybe the funniest show I did.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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.
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.
The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.
To be an actress and act crazy is really fun for me, to be able to be acting like you'd never be able to act in your real life and scream and freak out. It's an interesting test for an actor.
I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.
Trials and tribulations only come into your life to test you, so you could make some testimonies out of them.
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
Building the right product requires systematically and relentlessly testing that vision to discover which elements of it are brilliant, and which are crazy.
The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
