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There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.
— Gerrit Smith
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that.
— Rick Yune
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
