Top 519 Ranks Quotes & Sayings

Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.

Deep thinking in the ranks leads only to drinking.

The enemies of the Soviet state calculate that the heavy loss we have borne will lead to disorder and confusion in our ranks. But their expectations are in vain: bitter disillusionment awaits them. He who is not blind sees that our party, during its difficult days, is closing its ranks still more closely, that it is united and unshakable.

They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.

Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear.

You can't strengthen the ranks of your middle class, you can't strengthen and grow the ranks of your businesses and family-owned businesses, unless you are fiscally responsible.

History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that.

For all of the achievements and awards, to be able to retire as a Raider ranks highest among all of those.

Coming through the youth ranks at Fulham is a great honour to me.

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.

All the way through the youth ranks at Sao Paulo, I've always been the captain.

The more tightly packed the group, the greater the need for strict social ranks and orders.

Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

I think, as you move to the upper ranks of science - ranks being positions of influence and access - you see fewer female faces. And I think the basic reason is the same reason that you don't see a lot of female faces in Congress or on the Supreme Court or on the directing board of Fortune 500 companies.

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

Ninety percent of our managers started in the hourly ranks or started in the lower ranks.

Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

I've been in the league a lot of years, and I'll know a majority of the coaches, not only in the college ranks but in the professional ranks, both as head coaches, position.

I see ranks ready for battle, stretching out. Five, six horses across, ranks in formation. Endlessly.

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.

Since it is to the advantage of the wage-payer to pay as little as possible, even well-paid labor will have no more than what is regarded in a particular society as the reasonable level of subsistence. The lower ranks of labor will commonly have less, and if public relief were afforded even up to the wage-level of the lowest ranks of labor, that relief would compete in the labor market; check or dry up the supply of wage-labor. It would tend to render the performance of work by the wage-earner redundant.

Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the ranks of poet? Brodsky: No one. And who put me in the ranks of humanity? Judge: Did you study it?...How to be a poet? Did you attempt to finish an insitute of higher learning...where they prepare...teach Brodsky: I did not think that it is given to one by education. Judge: By what then? Brodsky: I think that it is from God.

Lack of rule of law is the main reason Pakistan could not join the ranks of progressive nations.

You can't be admitted to the ranks of writers of importance unless you have sales.

You see more women in the CFO ranks. It's an evolution.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

When I was coming up through the ranks, I won a lot - and probably won too much.

He whose ranks are united in purpose will be victorious.

It's time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them.

Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.

Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.

I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

In infamy, it is wisely provided that he who stands highest in the ranks of society has the heaviest load to sustain.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don't think our veterans should join those ranks.

One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.

If ever the call comes to them, the young will go straight from the ranks of the neutralists into the ranks of he Majesty's Forces, as they have so often done in the past.

It's interesting that at a time when she could have differentiated herself from the ranks of [Democratic National Committee Chairman] Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi and the far left ranks of the Democratic Party, she chose to join those on the front ranks of the blame game, It would have been interesting if she had shown some level of restraint.

When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

In order for Republicans... to grow its ranks, it must reflect America.

He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.

Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter

The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon the inventions of unknown men, upon the originations of unknown men, upon the ambitions of unknown men. Every country is renewed out of the ranks of the unknown, not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

To jump from the indie ranks to play with the big dogs, there's a gate you have to pass through.

Akiko Tsuruga ranks as one of the top organists around today.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.

If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and misrepresentatives of the masses - you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad that I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!

By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.

money is not everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen

The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.