Rank Quotes

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.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

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

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

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

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.

I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.

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.

I am a rank individualist.

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.

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