#tested

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#billy #certainty #comes #confidence #edges

Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#liked #market #movie #multiplicity #nine

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#been #changing #democracy #experience #having

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#foundations #liberty #made #must #peace

When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power. ↗

— Orville Wright

#develop #dropped #end #few #found

Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#called #could #end #fear #fight

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested. ↗

— Mike Honda

#during #never #sorely #tension #terrorism

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#believe #believes #cannot #contested #free

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#claim #contested #creature #fact #inferred

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#detested #ever #known #most #most powerful