Quotes having the keyword Rank
Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.
by Enid Nemykeywords: building, corner, could, dead, designed, even, excellent, expanse, five, glass, great, individual, legend, nations, offices, rank, said, united, where, window , windows I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.
by Shimon Peres (Statesman, Israeli , born in 1923) keywords: anyway, army, before, first, joined, knew, most, offered, positions, preferred, private, put, rank, ranks, refused, remain, sensitive, taken , time To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
by Albert Pike (Lawyer, American , born in 1809) keywords: according, before, brain, capacities, hands, honorable, lies, more, our, rank, requirements, than, title, us, which , work If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
by Ted Rall (Cartoonist, American , born in 1963) keywords: before, go, good, graphic, had, long, novel, rank, skills, way , write Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.
by Frederick Reines (Physicist, American , born in 1918) keywords: achieving, activities, among, boy, each, eagle, eventually, leadership, membership, organization, rank, ranks, roles, rose, scout, scouts, through, undertaking , year The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
by Joshua Reynolds (Artist, English , born in 1723) keywords: art, employed, every, labor, mental, pleasure, producing, proportion, rank , value Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
by Theodore Roosevelt (President, American , born in 1858) keywords: because, better, checkered, dare, defeat, enjoy, even, failure, far, glorious, gray, knows, live, mighty, much, neither, nor, poor, rank, spirits, suffer, than, things, those, though, triumphs, twilight, victory , win Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.
by George Saintsbury (Writer, English , born in 1845) keywords: between, class, dickens, earlier, few, first, high, illustrated, immense, more, names, novels, other, production, promote, rank, scott, second, should, side, some, than, them, which, while , would I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.
by Lord Salisbury (Politician , English) keywords: criminals, disappear, higher, myself, policeman, rank, scheme, than, things, utility, were, whose , would Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.
by Pepper Schwartzkeywords: baby, children, decision, discipline, equal, give, hire, how, husbands, important, lip, made, many, may, pull, raising, rank, role, service, sitter, take, wanting, will , women Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
by Victoria Secundakeywords: come, daughter, few, haunting, hearing, moments, motherhood, mouth, out, own, rank, words , your I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
by William Tecumseh Sherman (Soldier , born in 1970) keywords: accept, commission, create, earned, got, grant, him, hold, rank, rivalry, tend, want, will , would The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
by Anna Garlin Spencerkeywords: achievement, ambition, been, block, effort, failure, first, forms, genius, human, intellectual, most, produce, rank, supreme, talent, used, way , women Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
by Herbert Spencer (Philosopher, English , born in 1970) keywords: any, arts, fine, highest, human, ministers, more, music, must, other, rank, spirit, take, than , which It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
by Henry David Thoreau (Author, American , born in 1817) keywords: clothes, divested, far, how, interesting, men, question, rank, relative, retain, their, were , would High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
by Anthony Trollope (Author, English , born in 1815) keywords: always, belong, heart, high, manners, may, rank, soft , true The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.
by Robert Welchkeywords: become, fortune, good, imposed, indeed, onerous, privilege, rank, responsibilities, very , which Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.
by John Yoo (Educator, American , born in 1967) keywords: any, benefits, cannot, convention, cooperating, example, geneva, name, number, only, pow, provide, rank, receive, required, serial , under
