Quotes About Ranks

#1. We need to get rid of the growing army of temporary workers now filling the ranks of academy. This is scandalous; it weakens both the power of the faculty and exploits these workers. - Author: Henry Giroux

#2. Chrisfield looked straight ahead of him. He did not feel lonely any more now that he was marching in ranks again. His feet beat the ground in time with the other feet. He would not have to think whether to go to the right or to the left. He would do as the others did. - Author: John Dos Passos

#3. Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today. - Author: Edward R. Murrow

#4. More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers. It was commitment that thinned the ranks. - Author: Charles R. Swindoll

#5. Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, Sudden sun and clatter patter! ... All things ready with a will, April's coming up the hill! - Author: Mary Mapes Dodge

#6. There's no reason the nation of Africa cannot and should not join the ranks of the world's most prosperous nations in the near term, in the decades ahead. There is simply no reason. - Author: Joe Biden

#7. We all know he ranks me above Iron Man, Thor, and whatever other Avenger makes an on-screen appearance. Not just because I'm clearly better and clearly not fictional.

But because I'm his bodyguard. His real-life superhero. - Author: Krista Ritchie

#8. There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers. - Author: Pat Benatar

#9. Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks! - Author: Pierre-Jean De Beranger

#10. Well for those who will be called upon to serve as soldiers in the ranks of whoever comes to build the new world. June, 1919. - Author: Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria Czernin Von Und Zu Chudenitz

#11. When somebody say "Writer", I think about a person or people which have rank "Writer", when somebody ask me about president. I think about rank "president" - but in the end we understand thall people with this ranks are normal are like the people around the world poor or rich it doesn't matter! - Author: Deyth Banger

#12. Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us. - Author: Isaac Asimov

#13. Edmondson has incisively discussed the ways college campuses have grown akin to upscale retirement homes for the very young, where the promise of intellectually demanding courses ranks far below the lure of new gymnastic facilities. - Author: Maureen Corrigan

#14. The empirical is very important, but merit is inherent and not acquired. A university is massively important because you can see where you stand naturally in the ranks, and try yourself out, but education is just reading and understanding what you read. - Author: William Monahan

#15. August 19, 1981: President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first woman on the Supreme Court. Male justices who had made noises over the years about resigning if a woman ever joined their ranks stay put. - Author: Irin Carmon

#16. Well, Bradbury's a genius. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time, and The Illustrated Man as a collection of short stories ranks up there. When you read it you realize how influential it is on so many other stories and people. - Author: Zack Snyder

#17. The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history. - Author: Lawrence Summers

#18. I used to think that to make something happen in a corporation or in the army, you had to be at the higher ranks, to be a general. But you just need to start a movement. - Author: Tom Kelley

#19. When it comes to belts and rank, I don't care what belt I am; I don't care what rank I am. I'm proud that I've achieved high ranks through some great instructors around the world, but ultimately, the mat doesn't lie. - Author: Jason David Frank

#20. Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness" in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components. - Author: Carl Jung

#21. For me, New York still ranks as the most beautiful and the most interesting city in the world. It is also the most varied in terms of the things it has to offer. - Author: Moby

#22. Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward by spiritual power, man can reach the summit destined for him by the Great Creator. - Author: Haile Selassie

#23. The information that the Secret Service shared with the White House included hotel records and firsthand accounts - the same types of evidence the agency and military relied on to determine who in their ranks was involved. - Author: Carol D. Leonnig

#24. Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does. - Author: Jimmy Carter

#25. I got a golden handshake that nearly broke my arm
I left the ranks of shuffling graveyard people
I got rust upon my hands from the padlocked factory gates
Silent chimneys provide the silent steeples - Author: Fish

#26. When trouble comes, close ranks - Author: Jean Rhys

#27. A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. - Author: Sydney Smith

#28. They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself. - Author: T.E. Lawrence

#29. We did what we always do. We closed ranks, burned our files, and waited for the storm to pass. - Author: Daniel Silva

#30. No matter whether a person belongs to the upper ranks or the lower, if he has not put his life on the line at least once he has cause for shame. - Author: Nabeshima Naoshige

#31. From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment. - Author: Lee Myung-bak

#32. Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor. - Author: Simon Mainwaring

#33. Occasionally a matrimonial epidemic appears, especially toward spring, devastating society, thinning the ranks of bachelordom, and leaving mothers lamenting for their fairest daughters. - Author: Louisa May Alcott

#34. History is littered with people who came up with great ideas and saw others profit from them. You need to make sure you don't join their ranks. - Author: Joey Reiman

#35. The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies. - Author: Sophie Jordan

#36. The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude. - Author: Steve Buyer

#37. There is no lack of bravery in the ranks of our armed forces, but bureaucratic cowardice rules in our intelligence establishment (as well as at the higher levels of military command). - Author: Ralph Peters

#38. As Serbia continues to move towards rectifying the evils of its past and joining the ranks of democratic nations, it is important that the individuals involved in the death of the Bytyqi brothers are held accountable for their actions[.] - Author: Tim Bishop

#39. Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.' - Author: Sam Claflin

#40. When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder. - Author: Simone Weil

#41. However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified. - Author: Teresa Of Avila

#42. I have often thought how much happier I should have been if, instead of accepting a command under such Circumstances, I should have taken my musket upon my Shoulder & entered the Ranks or ... had retir'd to the back country & lived in a Wig-wam. - GEORGE WASHINGTON - Author: Joseph J. Ellis

#43. The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself. - Author: Rumi

#44. Among industrialized countries, the U.S. ranks 29th in infant survival. - Author: Jennifer Block

#45. The Federal Reserve ranks among the most transparent central banks. We publish a summary of our balance sheet every week. Our financial statements are audited annually by an outside auditor and made public. Every security we hold is listed on the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. - Author: Janet Yellen

#46. I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. - Author: Smedley Butler

#47. Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through the vista of centuries, I can see no end of the ranks of those who have toiled and suffered in its cause, and who wear upon their breasts its stars of the legion of honor. - Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#48. The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. - Author: Leonardo Da Vinci

#49. He'd stood amidst the ranks more than once, sensing the soldiers alongside him seeking and finding that place in the mind, cold and silent, the place where husbands, fathers, wives and mothers became killers. And practice made it easier, each time. Until it becomes a place you never leave. - Author: Steven Erikson

#50. A lot of directors in television have come up through the technical ranks. They have all the technical skills in the world. They're not all that familiar with actors. - Author: Arthur Penn

#51. At Sir-Tech I went through the ranks, almost like an apprenticeship. I was very fortunate. The industry was smaller then, and I was able to work alongside some amazing game designers. - Author: Brenda Brathwaite

#52. This book out-lives, out-loves, out-fits, out-lasts, out-reaches, out-runs, and out-ranks all books. This book is faith producing. It is hope awakening. It is death destroying, and those who embrace it find forgiveness of sin. - Author: Arcturus Z. Conrad

#53. One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator. - Author: Albert Einstein

#54. As an immerser I progressed to the ranks I aspired to - those that granted me a certain cachet and income while keeping me from fundamental responsibilities. This is what I excelled at: the life-technique of aggregated skill, luck, laziness and chutzpah that we call floaking. - Author: China Mieville

#55. Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation. - Author: Bob Schaffer

#56. There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous. - Author: Gerrit Smith

#57. People attacking a group from outside will simply case that group to close ranks and unify and become even stronger - which in case they haven't noticed, is exactly what has happened with the pink community. - Author: Christina Engela

#58. You have to run the football and stop the run, no matter what level you play at, whether it's high school, college or professional ranks. I'm a firm believer in that. - Author: Chip Kelly

#59. Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,
the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making. - Author: Charlotte Mason

#60. It wasn't a direct route. I began as a freelance reporter. That's an important distinction, because people who rise through the ranks of The New York Times become vetted, conditioned, harassed, and shaped by the institution. That never happened to me. - Author: Chris Hedges

#61. A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and armor and shoes for horses. But he had been blessed with strsngth, courage, and cleverness. - Author: Emily Rodda

#62. In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle. - Author: Jacques Barzun

#63. As a musician, I know that it'll take time for me to get to the ranks of an established artiste. Nevertheless, I'm very happy that people are appreciating my music. - Author: Priyanka Chopra

#64. Should we tolerate debate within feminism's ranks? Undebatable! But it's not so simple: women are socialised to avoid conflict; when we do differ, especially on politics and in public, it's still tediously labelled a 'catfight.' - Author: Robin Morgan

#65. For the artist, fulfillment of self consists not in marching in the ranks of the liberators but in being entered in the roll of the Masters. The artist tends to find himself in the position of a deserter from his social group or, at best, one who collaborates, with secret reservations. - Author: Harold Rosenberg

#66. With a measly 18 percent of our Congress composed of women, the U.S. ranks just 77th in the world in terms of women in elected office, surpassed by such countries as Ezbekistan and Moldova. - Author: Jackie Speier

#67. If the Army wants witches and satanists in its ranks, then it can do it without Christians in those ranks. It's time for the Christians in this country to put a stop to this kind of nonsense. A Christian recruiting strike will compel the Army to think seriously about what it is doing. - Author: Paul Weyrich

#68. What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while. - Author: Warren Buffett

#69. Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity. - Author: Jeffrey R. Holland

#70. Eventually a guy behind the hog farmer broke ranks, and stepped forward. A pragmatist, clearly. He walked to the car and lifted the hatchback and put the bags inside, one by one, first Keever's, then Chang's. - Author: Lee Child

#71. Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure. - Author: John C. Maxwell

#72. Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear. At such moments we were free-men without shadows, dismissed from the ranks of the mortal; it was the most complete experience of freedom that can be granted a man. - Author: Arthur Koestler

#73. Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns. - Author: Howard Staunton

#74. Top-down leaders, by withholding power from those in the ranks, deprive them of the ability to use the expertise and information vested in them to respond directly and with speed to customer concerns. - Author: Sally Helgesen

#75. In populous cities, which are the seat of commerce and manufactures, the middle ranks of inhabitants, who derive their subsistence from the dexterity or labour of their hands, are commonly the most prolific, the most useful, and, in that sense, the most respectable part of the community. - Author: Edward Gibbon

#76. The U.S. ranks 25th in math and 21st in science. We are woefully behind. The only way to change this situation is through public-private partnerships. - Author: Klaus Kleinfeld

#77. People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment. - Author: Claudia Black

#78. PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently. - Author: Indra Nooyi

#79. Who included me among the ranks of the human race? - Author: Joseph Brodsky

#80. You are asking us to lie, Colonel?"
"I am asking you to omit. Surely, amidst the ... the infinite gradations of human venality, that particular sin ranks low." The old man kneaded the folds of his throat. "What happened out there belongs out there. The jungle has it; let the jungle keep it ... - Author: Louis Bayard

#81. An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists. - Author: Margaret Mead

#82. Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the mind's processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing. - Author: Daniel Goleman

#83. In all ranks and all stations of life, how strangely characters and manners differ! - Author: Fanny Burney

#84. The horizon was frosted with a greenish smear, as if ranks of campfires from distant tribes had divined the news already and were burning an homage to Elphaba before the sun could set on the day of her death.
He could smell her in the collar of the cape, and he wept for the first time. - Author: Gregory Maguire

#85. Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks. - Author: Ted Kulongoski

#86. Few remember that there was no significant US homeless population before the 1980s, that Ronald Reagan's new society and economy created these swollen ranks of street people. Even - Author: Rebecca Solnit

#87. I did discover that if you're interested in low wages, a bookstore ranks below retail clothing sales, except the hours are worse. - Author: Sue Grafton

#88. So Carbone had no closet full of clean and pressed uniforms. There were no serried ranks of undershirts, crisp and laundered, folded ready for use. There were no gleaming boots under his bed. - Author: Lee Child

#89. When I was coming up through the ranks, not that many people carried a lot money of money on them. This was before checks and credit cards. - Author: Doyle Brunson

#90. Father, thy hand
Hath reared these venerable columns, thou
Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down
Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose
All these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun,
Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze,
And shot towards heaven. - Author: William C. Bryant

#91. Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear. - Author: Scott Carpenter

#92. Having children had knocked it all into a different arrangement. The minute you had children, you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations. - Author: Meg Wolitzer

#93. I started at a 'learn to swim' scheme when I was about five-years-old. I did it to learn water safety, but it was fun and I loved the water. I went to a club, moved up through the ranks and got better and better before taking part in my first national championships. - Author: Liam Tancock

#94. Most of us give little thought to the importance or the meaning of a homeland. Not until we ourselves are foreigners fighting for acceptance, stripped of all ranks and titles and viewed as inferiors, do we miss that privilege. - Author: Oksana Marafioti

#95. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind. - Author: Albert Einstein

#96. A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes the similar nature works of others especially famous persons. - Author: Anuj

#97. Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other. - Author: Mary Livermore

#98. By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you. - Author: Ralph Nader

#99. Don't say it's impossible! Turn your command over to the next officer. If he can't do it, I'll find someone who can, even if I have to take him from the ranks! - Author: Stonewall Jackson

#100. If the elites listened, they would understand why French young people like me are joining our ranks. - Author: Marion Marechal-Le Pen