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Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent. — Charles Caleb Colton

I tell you, those Spaniards are rank cowards, as all bullies are. They pray to a woman, the idolatrous rascals! and no wonder they fight like women. — Charles Kinglsey

(never entirely erased the stink, though - she must have one rank pussy), — Gillian Flynn

Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second — Victor Hugo

Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending. — Barbara Holland

From a certain height, everyone looks the same - men, women, villains, kings - as if rank and fortune were simply an accident of perspective. — Joanne Harris

What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Star Wars and Star Trek are good in different ways, and in fairness, you can't really rank them. But Star Wars is better. "YOUR — Cass R. Sunstein

A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable only in exceptional cases. — Alexander Alekhine

The Gods rank work above virtues. — Hesiod

The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege. — Peter Drucker

My name is Scott Chaney. My rank is, well, I don't have one. So, just refer to me as Captain Awesome. — Nichole Chase

No one does more harm in the Church than he who has the title or rank of holiness and acts perversely. — Gregory The Great

A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file. — Woodrow Wilson

the rank and melancholy smell of charred wet wood and sodden leaves coming towards me on a wisp of air. — Daphne Du Maurier

To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank. — Blaise Pascal

Call me Dudley. We're of equal rank. I'm older, but you're far better looking. I can tell we're going to be grand partners. — James Ellroy

The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank. — Simon Sinek

I've always believed the New Left is rank. — Lester Bangs

Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death. — Otto Rank

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be. — Brian Aldiss

A madman is one who considers himself sane and thinks that fools don't belong in his rank. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I don't care about titles. Your rank doesn't make you who you are. — Tiffany Aleman

The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes. — Susan B. Anthony

By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity. — Bryant McGill

The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears. — Stephen Leacock

Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible. — Simon Sinek

Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law. — George Meredith

Whether Jew or Gentile, I rank top percentile. — Lauryn Hill

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file — Ernst Junger

Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank. — Simon Sinek

It is good to know that every single title/rank you hold is earned in a high cost of hard work, not some random self given title/rank. — Euginia Herlihy

Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd when others are more wicked; not being the worst stands in some rank of praise. — William Shakespeare

In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness. — Suzanne Collins

It smelled pretty rank, but I was getting used to the smell of death, as much as anyone could get used to it. — Amanda Hocking

We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery. — Sri Aurobindo

Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank. — Gloria Steinem

Food does not rank high on my list. I eat to live, and I'm very particular about my diet. It's strictly low fat diet for me. — Terence Lewis

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

Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed. — Alexis De Tocqueville

The WHO took care to explicitly say that processed meat didn't rank alongside smoking when it comes to cancer risk. — Kevin Drum

How can you rank BYU No. 1? Who'd they play - Bo Diddley Tech? — Bryant Gumbel

If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life. — Robert T. Bakker

The real warfare of mankind is eternal struggle
to earn higher rank in the pyramid of food chain. — Toba Beta

I will not choose what many men desire,
Because I will not jump with common spirits
And rank me with the barbarous multitudes — William Shakespeare

Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank. — John Ramsay McCulloch

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. — Mike Ditka

That must be the chief reason to become sergeant; so you can assign yourself to monitor the most beautiful security risk. — James Alan Gardner

They naturally thought that anyone who was good should have a very high rank. — Chris Kyle

Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life. — Donald Ray Pollock

There is already too much truth in the world - an overproduction which apparently cannot be consumed! — Otto Rank

many companies rank low on the customer satisfaction index because their employees are discouraged, disillusioned, and uninspired. — Carmine Gallo

Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. — Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

One pain is lessened by another's anguish ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die. — William Shakespeare

He believed that rank without power was a sham. — Barbara W. Tuchman

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

On the bright side," Percy said, "both Jason and I out rank you, Octavian. So we can both tell you to shut up. — Rick Riordan

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

He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation. — Nikolai Gogol

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank. — Norman Ralph Augustine

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth. — Hilaire Belloc

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

Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors. — Myrtle Reed

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

Depending on the level you're at in your company, the higher you go up in rank, usually the longer you can dance. — Misty Copeland

In the psychical sphere there are no facts, but only interpretations of them. — Otto Rank

lunches at which everyone segregated themselves by rank and caste - — Hanya Yanagihara

out of death, life, out of the coarse rank earth, a flower. — Thomas Wolfe

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. — Peter F. Drucker

Who would live in this rank old Paris if it was not for its gardens?" - John Sanderson — David McCullough

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank. — Juvenal

It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay. — Roger Ascham

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects. — Joseph Addison

Nothing could be more dishonorable than to accept high rank and command in war and then betray the trust. — Ulysses S. Grant

The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired. — Hippocrates

Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. — Confucius

Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake. — Corinne Maier

An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed. — Henry David Thoreau

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

Leadership is not a rank, it's a choice. — Simon Sinek

There are books ... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command. — Herman Melville

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. — Robert Frost

Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility. — Peter Drucker

To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them. — William Shakespeare

Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it — Barack Obama

The Voiceless in rank and file are easy to manipulate. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

(Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?) — William T. Vollmann

To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order. — Peter Drucker

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work. — Kenzaburo Oe

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it. — Sophie Swetchine

The party has to be much more. It has to connect in a real way with rank-and-file members and be their voice. — Wes Boyd

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

Let no rank puff up anyone; for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world. — Ignatius Of Antioch

I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. — Arthur Conan Doyle