Rank Quotes

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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.

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.

The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.

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.

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

And again, President Obama's health care plan really is another drag on the economy. Until we get Washington out of the way, this president's recovery is going to continue to rank dead last.

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

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

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

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.

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.

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

Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

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

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.