Rank Quotes

I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

I was instructed by people in higher rank to stand there and hold this leash and look at the camera. We were doing what we were told.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.

Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.

I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

I would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file.

First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank.

There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to the place of women's fiction in the canon of modern literature, to the rank of mint chocolate chip ice cream as a favorite Baskin-Robbins flavor.

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.