Quotes of Rank - somelinesforyou

“ There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. ”

- Washington Irving

“ The middle of the road is where the white line is — and that's the worst place to drive. ”

- Robert Frost

“ You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it. ”

- Leszczynski Stanislaus

“ You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ Leadership is action, not position. ”

- Donald H. McGannon

“ A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influence, to change. ”

- Katharine Butler Hathaway

“ I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. ”

- George Washington Carver

“ Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Status quo, you know, that is Latin for "the mess we're in.". ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own "acres of diamonds.". ”

- Earl Nightingale

“ You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them. ”

- Peace Pilgrim

“ It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Leadership is an action, not a position. ”

- Donald H. McGannon

“ Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken. ”

- William Osler

“ What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. - C. S. Lewis. ”

- C. S. Lewis

“ If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it. ”

- Paul Bremer

“ It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims. ”

- Judith Butler

“ If we are to live unto God at any time, or in any place, we are to live unto Him at all times and all places. If we are to use anything as the gift of God, we are to use everything as His gift. ”

- William Law

“ There's no place like home except Grandma's. ”

- Unknown

“ I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them. ”

- Betty Grable

“ I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too. - Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ This means everything to Chicago. If they want a World Series championship, they've got it. ”

- Frank Thomas

“ Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him. ”

- Bible

“ That's like a smack in the face before you even get started. I guess you can always be a critic when you're standing on the outside. ”

- Mike Wallace

“ The safest place to be is within the will of God. ”

- Unknown

“ As much anxiety as we might extend over the victims of a rising funds rate, we ought to also spare a thought for the consequences of rates having been here in the first place. ”

- James Grant
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9