Bad Tendency Test

Famous quotes containing the words bad, tendency and/or test:

    let us rejoice
    That he lets us hope, for
    He may never become a fashionable or
    Important personage:
    However bad he may be, he has not yet gone mad;
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    I am willing, for a money consideration, to test this physical strength, this nervous force, and muscular power with which I’ve been gifted, to show that they will bear a certain strain. If I break down, if my brain gives way under want of sleep, my heart ceases to respond to the calls made on my circulatory system, or the surcharged veins of my extremities burst—if, in short, I fall helpless, or it may be, dead on the track, then I lose my money.
    Ada Anderson (1860–?)