Quotes About First Rank

#1. I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.

Mary Russell Mitford

#2. I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.

Marie Curie

#3. If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.

Frederic Chopin

#4. The characteristic mark of minds of the first rank is the immediacy of all their judgements. Everything they produce is the result of thinking for themselves and already in the way it is spoken everywhere announces itself as such.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#5. Modern warfare is by no means merely a matter of military operations. Economic affairs stand together with them in the first rank of the factors of importance.

Chiang Kai-shek

#6. Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

Immanuel Kant

#7. They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow ( Schlaukopf ) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.

Otto Von Bismarck

#8. Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. Masters of the first rank are recognized by the fact that in matters great and small they know how to find an end perfectly, be it the end of a melody or a thought.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. When I was in the army, there were four times that I was wounded. I also got more than 30 wounds on my body, and my injuries were ranked on the second rank of invalids. The first rank is the most severe. So, that means that I had lost more than 60 per cent of working capability.

Nguyen Tan Dung

#11. In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The grand ladies with high ambitions thought her a presumptuous upstart, and lesser ladies were still more resentful. Everything she did offended someone.

Murasaki Shikibu

#12. ... the reciprocal obligation from man to man holds the first rank; what regards ourselves, ought to be considered relatively to the influence that we may possess over the destiny of others...

Germaine De Stael

#13. Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second

Victor Hugo

#14. At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.

Anna Garlin Spencer

#15. Anyone who sang the praises of undying love in this day and age belonged to the first rank of hypocrites in Daisuke's estimate.

Soseki Natsume

#16. 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.

Anna Garlin Spencer

#17. Experiences of the first order, of the first rank, are not realized through the eye.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#18. To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#19. 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.

Shimon Peres

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

Voltaire

#21. Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You stick to the life and let the fools stick to the death.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. He sniffed his armpits just to see if they were rank, but they weren't. Let's hear it for twenty-first century deodorant.

Lisa Marie Rice

#23. But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even those of the rank and file or lesser grades who neither engage in pagan sacrifices nor capital punishment, be admitted into the church? No on both counts.

Tertullian

#24. There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes.

Amit Kalantri

#25. From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.

Adam Sedgwick

#26. And here for the first time in my life I saw my beloved Mississippi River, dry in the summer haze, low water, with its big rank smell that smells like the raw body of America itself because it washes it up.

Jack Kerouac

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

Vincent Frank

#28. First Lieutenant George Armstrong Custer - his new regular army rank dated to July 17 - was

Thom Hatch

#29. It seems to me that liberal and humane people, of whom there are many among us, would, if they were asked to rank the vices, put cruelty first. Intuitively they would choose cruelty as the worst thing we do.

Judith N. Shklar

#30. The beauty of a language is, generally judged by its soft or rigid, melodious or harsh, ring. Other aspects, such as the flexibility of derivation, play hardly any role in grading. Were it the case, Russian would certainly be placed on the winner's stand. It would rank first in plasticity.

Kato Lomb

#31. In the first place, in the physician or surgeon no quality takes rank with imperturbability, and I propose for a few minutes to direct your attention to this essential bodily virtue.

William Osler

#32. The boy who had scolded her was Dirk Eberwein, the first non-Genestella in the history of the Le Wolfe Black Institute to reach the rank of student council president. There

Yuu Miyazaki

#33. For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

Lloyd Alexander

#34. Where the first Adam sought to break free of his created rank and ascend to the throne of God, the last Adam - who is God in his very nature - left his throne and descended to our misery.

Michael S. Horton

#35. 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.

George Saintsbury

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

Michael Chertoff