Quotes of: Rankings Keyword

The future historian will rank as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century. {Stanton's opinion of the great }

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Modern warfare is by no means merely a matter of military operations. Economic affairs stand together with them in the first rank of the factors of importance.

Chiang Kai-shek

Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.

Bob Schaffer

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

George Bernard Shaw

I'm never sure how to rank these things, but I will say that it has been a dream of mine ever since I was a kid to play for the Queen of England. Preferably in the throne room.

Joshua Roman

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

John Updike

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

Denis Diderot

Gothmog: [sniffs] Fear. The city is rank with it. Let us ease their suffering.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Most unfortunately, Enron's plunge into bankruptcy court also cost many of its rank-and-file employees their savings.

Alex Berenson

Once she had said to him that what they had was grace. Even now, married properly, rank bestowed, it still was. And always would be

Anne Leonard

Good hearts carry weighing balance that measures others’ values based on the character merely than ever with their attire, wealth, rank or position.

Anuj Somany

The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.

Kara Swisher

We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy.

Lucy Larcom

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

The Hunger Games

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

Mike Fitzpatrick

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

Hiroshima Notes

Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna." ["Generally common sense is rare in that (higher) rank."]

Satires, Book I

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

Soulless

Noah gave an exaggerated eye roll. “Just out of curiosity, is this the stupidest thing you’ve ever done?” “It wouldn’t be fair to rank them.” Caleb gunned the engine.

Transcendence

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

Unreasonable Force