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

Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into its carefully chosen ranks. — Pat Conroy

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

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. — James Lane Allen

For many young girls, having a horse of their own ranks high on the scale of importance, right up there with breathing. — Kim Meeder

Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks. — Madame De Stael

Who included me among the ranks of the human race? — Joseph Brodsky

He whose ranks are united in purpose will be victorious. — Sun Tzu

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

They entrenched themselves in their preferences, their beliefs, their prejudices, and closed ranks against everything that was different — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

To succeed, we have to be the party of change, we have to root out corruption in our own ranks and we have to be the party of solutions. — Bobby Jindal

Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds (20) In ranks and squadrons and right form of war, Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol. The — William Shakespeare

Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks! — Pierre-Jean De Beranger

A country is only as strong as its military, and only as moral as the men who serve in its ranks. — Michelle Moran

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

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

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. — Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria Czernin Von Und Zu Chudenitz

The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang. — John Updike

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. — Isaac Asimov

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

Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward. — Dmitri Shostakovich

Given enough time - and assuming the existence of enough ranks in the hierarchy - each employee rises to, and remains at, his level of incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter

Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind. — Plato

Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises. — Sandy Alderson

He will win whose army is animated by the spirit throughout all its ranks. — Sun Tzu

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. — Sydney Smith

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine. — Gail Carriger

Homosexuals cannot reproduce-so they must recruit ... and to freshen their ranks they must recruit the youth of America. — Anita Bryant

Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high. — Christopher Hitchens

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

Sarah pinched him lightly. He's easier to get along with, though, so sometimes he ranks higher. — Ruth Cardello

I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together. — Emory Upton

It used to be you rose up through the ranks, and by the time you got a job as a boss, you had done the work of everybody beneath you ... — Suzy Welch

Ninety percent of our managers started in the hourly ranks or started in the lower ranks. — J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.

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. — Marcus Aurelius

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

Ultimate in respectability: not only received back into the ranks of the people but also — Nien Cheng

Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I've always watched actors on the red carpet getting drunk and making idiots of themselves and now I'm happy to join their ranks — Ethan Hawke

The universe was playing with loaded dice, which insured an excess of cowards in our ranks. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

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. — Klaus Kleinfeld

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

You're always looking to have a unique experience as an actor, and definitely, being punched by a puppet ranks as a singular experience in my career. — Gillian Jacobs

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

There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes. — Amit Kalantri

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

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

Don't give in to the forces of mediocrity that pull so many people into the ranks of disengagement and resignation. Be fearless Be bold. — Timi Nadela

With so much protection, wouldn't one be able to wander among the undead ranks, taunting them at will with no danger of repercussion? — Max Brooks

The rest of the rebels were recruited from the ranks of the young and excitable and had rather more enthusiasm than skill. — John Scalzi

The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors. — Richard Dawkins

We must overcome social- and self-oppression if we are ever to join the ranks of the free souls who love their lives and lead their people. — Brendon Burchard

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety. — Joe Moore

If I found in my own ranks that a certain number of guys wanted to cut my throat, I'd make sure that I cut their throats first. — Pierre Trudeau

From the ranks of the crawling babies came little squeals of excitement, gurgles and twitterings of pleasure. — Aldous Huxley

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

I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank. — Sara Sheridan

Why me?" he asked the guard. The guard shoved him back into ranks. "Vy you? Vy anybody?" he said. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us to third. Damn you, Finland! — Christopher Titus

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

Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied. — Plato

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself. — Rumi

When trouble comes, close ranks — Jean Rhys

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. — Henry Miller

He had made his way up the ranks of the department the hard way, with effort and integrity as opposed to politics. — Kenneth Eade

If we could just figure out how to have more fun at it, maybe more of us would join the ranks of those who seek after justice and mercy. — Robert Fulghum

and it was the pride and ambition of the Jewish people to co-operate in the front ranks to carry on the former glory of the fame of Viennese culture. — Stefan Zweig

Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks. — Ted Kulongoski

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

Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy. — John Herschel

A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism. — Italo Svevo

Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water. — Bashar Al-Assad

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

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

L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums. — Damian Lewis

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. — Doyle Brunson

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

The Sword fled, and would have vanished utterly if the Pope had not granted them refuge in the ranks of the Teutonic Knights. — Neal Stephenson

My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway. — John Shelby Spong

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does. — Nick Clegg

It is called the First Amendment ... Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music. — Jack Valenti

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

In all ranks and all stations of life, how strangely characters and manners differ! — Fanny Burney

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

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

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. — Joey Reiman

Among industrialized countries, the U.S. ranks 29th in infant survival. — Jennifer Block

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad. — Sam Elliott

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. — Leonardo Da Vinci

If you want to join the ranks of the people who changed the game, change yourself and the people around you as well. — Bebe

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

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. — Nabeshima Naoshige

The possible ranks higher than the actual. — Martin Heidegger

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

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

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

We did what we always do. We closed ranks, burned our files, and waited for the storm to pass. — Daniel Silva

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

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