Rank Quotes

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"I am thrilled to be honored by the Screen Actors Guild because I`ve been with it for such a long time. The Screen Actors Guild is sort of a highfalutin name for a union, and this union was always wonderful to work for. For the rank-and-file of the union to honor me is the best compliment I can receive."

- Karl Malden

I was as scrawny as a plucked hen. The Rank Organisation did supply me with dumbbells. All I did was put on two sweaters and then put my shirt on.

- Dirk Bogarde

I have full confidence in the capacity of the PQ to renew itself and I am convinced that the current leadership race will allow our rank-and-file members to elect as leader the person who will lead us to electoral victory and, especially, a victorious referendum.

- Bernard Landry

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.

- Patrick McGoohan

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.

- Winston Churchill

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.

- Johannes Brahms

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

- Robert Frost

Far better it is 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 the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Michael Chertoff

Good placement comes with time and rank.

- Richard Roberts

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

- Robert Welch

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

- Joshua Reynolds

(Since the NFL expanded to a 12-team playoff format in `90, 43 teams have started 4-0. Thirty-five made the playoffs... The offensively gifted young Lions, 1-2, were projected as a playoff team. They rank 29th in total offense, and QB Joey Harrington remains the favorite target of blame. He has a 57.3 passer rating. WR Charles Rogers` four-game suspension for substance abuse is the latest pothole in a very bumpy road.) I`m not happy because we have the potential to be a real good team, ... and we don`t show it on offense.

- Kevin Jones

Publications such as Forbes and Fortune continually rank Georgia cities as among the best places to live, work and run a business.

- Roy Barnes

(Sometimes, it feels like the Marlins are. Even with their World Series rings and their spandex-clad cheerleaders the Marlins rank second to last in the N.L. in attendance. The Miami Dolphins, fresh off a four-victory season, can expect capacity crowds.) In New York, in Philly, you know they`re revved up, ... Here, it`s like the fans have a football mentality.

- Todd Jones

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.

- John Moody

In 2001, President Bush asked me to become Director of National Drug Control Policy, a Cabinet-rank position that coordinates federal drug programs.

- John Walters

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.

- Aidan Kavanagh

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.

- Akira Sasaki

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.

- Alan Uke

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.

- Alejandro Queral

It is a rank appeal to abandon the fate of all our liberties to the reasonableness of the judgment of those who are trained primarily for war.

- Alex Cheung

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.

- Alex Morrison

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.

- Allan Kline

There is no rank in sacrifice.

- Allan Wright

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.

- Allie Savarino

Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can`t stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank.

- Almeda Jacks

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.

- Alvaro Uribe Velez

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.

- Alvin Hellerstein

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

- Alvina Tan

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.

- Amy Handlin

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

- Andrew Arulanandam

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.

- Andrew Salner

We`ve gone through some times this year where we haven`t had some guys produce a whole lot of runs. There`s a reason we rank where we are, offensively. I know there weren`t a lot of monster years put up, but it seems like this is a good baseball team, and we can score some runs.

- Angela Smith

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.

- Ann Swearingen

Mr. Bush`s performance last week will rank as one of the worst ever during a dire national emergency.

- Anne Paulk

Bringing Michael to St. James` Park will rank alongside the signing of Alan Shearer as my proudest moment at Newcastle United.

- Anucha Browne Sanders

I cannot tell you how honored I am to be here tonight. We wanted you to know that the 91st never forgets a veteran of our rank.

- Armand Watson

I think it does give the appearance of preferential treatment with respect to gender or with respect to rank,

- Arthur Winston

Helen McKinney`s not the rank-and-file, ... Across the board, the Republican rank-and-file have had enough.

- Bailey Hansen

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.

- Albert Einstein

for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large brain by accident when a spinal chord would have sufficed.

- Albert Einstein

By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field

- Mark Twain

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.

- John James Ingalls

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

- Albert Einstein

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

- Desiderius Erasmus

Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges attached to the rank he occupies in the commonwealth, nor act as if he were qualified as a ruler by birth and forcibly prevent others from reach­ing the higher levels of the hierarchy through their own merit. He may hand down everything else, so long as it is material and not pertaining to his person, for it may be acquired and disposed of as property and may over a series of generations create considerable inequalities in wealth among the mem­bers of the commonwealt. But he may not prevent his sub­ordinates from raising themselves to his own level if they are able and entitled to do so by their talent, industry and good fortune. If this were not so, he would be allowed to practise coercion without himself being subject to coercive counter-measures from others, and would thus be more than their fellow-subject.

- Immanuel Kant

Give a man a horse he can ride, give a man a boat he can sail; and his rank and wealth, his strength and health on sea nor shore shall fail.

- James Thomson