In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.

Bob Beauprez

You live for those pressure moments. Through an international career, you have ups and downs, but you always feel you are going to be tested in moments like that. It has taken me years to feel comfortable and to feel like I have good composure in those situations.

AB de Villiers

Mom Men Good

I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

Adam Baldwin

Up Too Tested

Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.

Albert Brooks

Men You Yin

I never, in anything I've ever done, tried to get you to like it. I was never going to succeed at that. That's not the way most entertainment is made. Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.

Albert Brooks

Men You Yin

I think all human beings can surprise themselves when they are in situations where they are tested. That's when you see your true character coming out, and I was definitely tested.

Alesha Dixon

Your You Where

Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site.

Alex Chiu

Time Medical World

The Premier League is a very closely contested league.

Alisson

Very Tested Test

Shakespeare's naturalness is attested to by the strange fact that he is the only classical author who remains popular. The critical termites are massed and eating away at the foundations, trying to topple him. Whether they will succeed will be a test of his robustness.

Allan Bloom

Yin Will Who

Engineers are very logical and everything has to be tested so when we fail, we'll know why and how to improve things.

Alvin Leung

Why Very Things

My faith in human decency was sorely tested at times during my captivity; however, after my release, I am humbly reminded that mankind is inherently good by the tremendous efforts and support of fellow Canadians.

Amanda Lindhout

Time Men Good

Ladies and dentists will agree: Iverson has one of the best smiles to ever grin. This is uncontested. No argument! And he was very generous with it as well. Whether during a game, press conference, or photoshoot, Iverson was free with his cheesing.

Amanda Seales

Smile Men Wit

I want to perform and be tested; I want the vibrant energy of the younger generation of directors and actors to rub off on me.

Amitabh Bachchan

Younger Generation Younger Young

As a teenager growing up in the suburbs of Washington, I ritually watched the Sunday-morning political talk shows with my family. We parsed and argued and jeered at the screen as national figures delivered careful, poll-tested talking points.

Anand Giridharadas

Teen Morning Family

If I'm contested, I'm not going to shoot the pull-up 3. But if I'm wide open and someone backs up off me, I'm gonna shoot it.

Andre Drummond

Wide Up Tested

Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a company is not allowed to provide a personal benefit to a decision maker in return for business. But hiring the sons and daughters of powerful executives and politicians is hardly just the province of banks doing business in China: it has been a time-tested practice here in the United States.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Time Power Business

A musician's true talent is only tested through background music.

Anirudh Ravichander

Music Us UN

A group of scientists wanted to find the most effective mosquito repellents. So they tested 10 different substances, including campout standbys like DEET, as well as a random choice: Victoria's Secret perfume Bombshell. Turns out the perfume is almost as good as DEET.

Annalee Newitz

Good Well Wanted

Some are happy with where their comfort zone is, but I like to be constantly tested, and I think it's good.

Ant Middleton

Good Zone Wit

My faith in the economic potential of the low carbon economy is not an untested prediction.

Anthony Pratt

Faith Car UN

Companies like YouTube will continue to be tested on their commitment to the mission that made them such popular and profitable websites - providing an open platform to a wide range of ideas from around the world.

Ari Melber

Men YouTube You

Because tax cuts create an incentive to increase output, employment, and production, they also help balance the budget by reducing means-tested government expenditures. A faster-growing economy means lower unemployment and higher incomes, resulting in reduced unemployment benefits and other social welfare programs.

Arthur Laffer

Too fat, too thin, too loud, too quiet - I was never going to fit the standards others created for me. Instead of complying, I protested.

Ashley Graham

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

Ashton Eaton

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I tested against Kaley Cuoco for 'The Big Bang Theory.' Not getting that hurts.

Ayda Field

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

Barack Obama

Einstein had two new predictions from general relativity. One was that light would bend. That was tested in 1919, and basically, he was proven right. The second prediction was gravitational waves, which took us 100 years to prove. The theory itself, which is thought by most to be rather obscure, you use every day, probably.

Barry Barish

When you prescribe a new drug, often you are prescribing something that has only been tested in a few thousand people for a very short period of time, perhaps only six months, and that's not long enough to know whether there are any medium- or long-term side effects.

Ben Goldacre

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

Ben Horowitz

The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.

Bill Frist

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

Bill Gates

The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.

Bill Lee

Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.

Bill Nye

I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.

Billy Childish

In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.

Bob Beauprez

Paul Ryan is a nationally tested leader that is widely known and respected.

Bob Beauprez

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

Bob Brown

The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy.

Bob Greene

I did organize something in high school like a school walkout. These kids were locked up in their school, they weren't allowed out, but 3,000 school kids from Sydney walked out and protested. And I organized it from my mom's office at work. And I was 12.

Bojana Novakovic

While producing a remake, one is sure of the success that it will have as the project has been tried and tested earlier.

Boney Kapoor

The stuff I write about doesn't, like, necessarily leave people feeling warm and fuzzy. I'm writing in a territory that's, like, contested and full of prickliness. And I find that people project their problems onto me or something.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.

Bruce Greenwood

I use TaylorMade. I've tested every golf ball. TaylorMades are great.

Bryson DeChambeau

I'm being tested each and every day. That's how life is.

Bubba Wallace

It's been a part of my game for life. It's tougher to finish in the lane so you've got to find different areas to score efficiently and the mid-range contested shot is a shot a lot of teams will live with. And it's a shot I'm willing to live with as well just because I've gotten so many shots at it and I'm comfortable with it.

C. J. McCollum

I am the third generation of women in my family to be struck with a gynecologic cancer. Because of this legacy, we have been genetically tested.

Camille Grammer

I unfortunately tested positive for Lynch Syndrome, so I have been checked at least annually and sometimes twice a year.

Camille Grammer

You can't speak as a conservative on campus without being boycott, without being protested, without students lining up and playing music loudly so that they can drown out the sound of your voices.

Candace Owens

I joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1980s and protested at Greenham Common.

Caroline Lucas