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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

You're starting to see a revolt in Republican ranks. What is he going to say to members of his party about what he's doing about the deficit?

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

Larry Summers

We've had good success helping players to move along the ranks.

Dwight Mullins

This ranks as one of the best wins this season. The more meaningful games we win in February will hopefully help us play more meaningful games in March.

Tom Crean

This is the icing on the cake. It ranks way over any other accomplishments that I've had in my career. This is something you only dream about. It's unbelievable. I'm very, very appreciative. I still can't believe it.

Mark Guidry

This ranks up there with one of the worst storms in quite some time. It's possibly the worst in 100 years. It's definitely the worst in the last 15 years.

Jim Harrison

Whether you consider an investment in conferencing to be a way to cut costs or to increase productivity, these tools will soon join the ranks as necessary tools for your company to compete in the worldwide economy.

Andrew Davis

Biased results? No way. Providing great search is the core of what we do. Business partnerships will never compromise the integrity or objectivity of our search results. If a partner's page ranks high, it's because they have a good answer to your search, not because of their business relationship with us.

Marissa Mayer

The Basilica ranks as one of the great buildings in Western architecture. At the Baltimore Basilica, it is a newly visible and much more brilliant Latrobe whom we encounter and a newly knowable and much more precious edifice that we have in our care.

Charles Brownell

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

Stokely Carmichael

When you look around the world and you consider the factors of the environment, climate, amenities, risk and appreciation, Miami ranks way high up there.

Jorge Perez

Bringing young players through the ranks has always been one of the manager's main priorities.

Ryan Giggs

It really helps us get on the radar screen of the professional people who work with companies to place them in other areas of the country. Now, Rochester ranks 35 in the entire country. We are very pleased about that.

Dennis Mullen

It's a defense that ranks first in our area, and amongst the best in the entire state, allowing only about 92 total yards a game.

Rodney Lloyd

I want to start by saying something nice about President Bush. Of all the presidents we've had with the last name of Bush, his economic plan ranks in the top two.

Senator John Kerry

This is a war that has been fought by troops out of hometowns, from the ranks of the National Guard and Reserves.

David Broder

Ranks higher and is remembered longer.

Horace Engdahl

They're certainly on the list of the top five brands in the toy industry, up in the ranks with a Barbie or Monopoly.

Hayley Kissel

Finally, we had some people step up and go forward. We need this. Everyone else has a feeder program to their high school, and we didn't. Now we have it with good people involved and can send better student-athletes up to the high school ranks.

Tyrone Smith

I like to see when they rise in ranks and achieve their goals. It is good to know that you helped them achieve goals, that you taught them the skills that you know and that they are going to need.

Joshua Thompson

The ranks have swelled. It's like the gold rush of 1849. The photo opportunities are here. We have everyone from probationers to ex-gang members to expatriates from Europe all behind the shutter of a camera.

William Hodgman

We have ranks and we do drills. As they get older they can enter the adult level and that's when they can get into being officers.

Karen Howell

For the most part, everyone is a gentleman here. They express the strengths of their kid and try to put the best foot forward for their wrestler. And a lot of the times it's like politics. There is politics within the coaching ranks. Sometimes that helps you and sometimes that hurts you.

Brian Farnham

Without really intending to, I kind of went up the ranks in museum management positions, ... I didn't plan on making a career of it, but it seems I really, really enjoy the work.

Lin Ezell

Going through the ranks, it gives them the experience they require.

Scott Moore

Clearly no one would have expected someone who has been as successful as Cathy has been in consumer marketing to wind up in the payments-services business. But on the other hand, if she emerges as a problem solver, this could help propel her to the top management ranks.

Dick Bove

I don't know how much you can say about Courtney that hasn't been said before. I got a chance to recruit her at Stanford and see her dominate as a high school player. She's definitely carried that over to the college ranks.

Julie Rousseau

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment.

Claudia Black

Well, [Bauer] is what we like to call in the coaching ranks the whole package. She loves to go to school here and loves to play hockey, and she is very good at both. [Bauer] is a leader on and off the ice and she comes prepared for practice and games, and it shows on the ice.

Mark Johnson

This game ranks right up there with one of the most painful losses I've ever experienced as a coach. I so thoroughly enjoyed being around this group of young men. To see it end, it hurts.

Jody Peters

Peter has proven himself through the ranks as a coach. This is the next challenge for him. I think he's very capable and ready to handle these duties. I always felt that international experience is a key for this type of position, and Peter certainly brings that to the table.

Don Waddell

They're all solid candidates. They're very much in the traditional mold for California Supreme Court justices. They worked in a DA's office or the attorney general's office and then they climbed the judicial ladder. They've come up through the ranks and they don't bring much career diversity to the court.

Stephen Barnett

As women increasingly join and continue to advance through the management ranks, making major contributions to their companies and the North American auto industry, it's important to applaud their talents. We're pleased to shine the spotlight on this impressive group of executives.

Peter Brown

I'm not really looking at names. I'm not really looking at ranks. That stuff really doesn't matter to me as long as I go out there and give it all I've got.

Kellen Holliman

They compete at such an elite level. The jump to the professional ranks is just a huge jump, so to come out here and see people who are truly the best in the world is a treat. I don't know how they do it but they're certainly better than us mortals.

Bob Spencer

[Will it matter if the Doom film does well or not?] It won't make much difference to us, we see everything independently, ... But in the ranks of Hollywood, if they see the Doom movie as successful, it will raise the interest level and they would want other game movies and come to us.

Todd Hollenshead

It's an incredible event, probably one of the biggest events of my life. It ranks up there with the birth of my kids.

Howard Holm

This ranks right up there.

Richard Matvichuk

In the college ranks at that time there were a high percentage of teams playing the 3-4, so consequently, the type of players coming out were suited to the 3-4.

Joe Collier

While turning a battleship is not easy, there is clear determination and urgency across the ranks.

Adrianne Shapira

It ranks right up there at the top.

Jimmy Stewart

Northwest may suspect there is some disaffection in the ranks (of AMFA).

John Remington

It is encouraging to hear that men of great ability themselves think that we have talent in our ranks.

Francisco Lepeley

Coach Davis assumed one of most difficult challenges any coach can accept - following a legendary predecessor. He has responded to these challenges with character, graciousness, with concern for the welfare of his players and with a determination to raise our program into the ranks of the very best in the nation.

Adam Herbert

Whereas EJ (Jordan), me and Peter when he first came in, and in fairness the many teams that didn't make it, probably came more up through the ranks.

Paul Stoddart

This ranks up there with the other titles I've won. I saw the guys before me and they all seemed to be hitting. There were some pretty big scores so I knew I had to go out there and do what I was capable of.

Michael Reavis

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

Jean Rhys

Our support professionals will be coming through the ranks of support delivery and some of them will come from the consulting operations.

Greg Pike

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Alexandre Dumas

I'd have to tell you the accounting firms are busy. They're so busy keeping up with the growth of their business and recruiting professionals into their ranks that it's hard to recruit them into business organizations.

Sam Grabarski

We all know the business. I've certainly thought a lot about if I do get the ride, how it came about. This isn't the way I would want to get a ride. Paul Dana and I both came up through the ranks and had the same dream. It wouldn't be lost on me if I got an opportunity with something he started and built up.

Jeff Simmons

In the sorry ranks of the revisionists, the loss of anything identifiably Christian is now almost complete.

Os Guinness

If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks.

Frederick The Great

It's going to be a tense and difficult year. It's a period of enormous confusion, division in the ranks at the very top, and lack of clarity. Where do they go?

Mahesh Rangarajan

It ranks in the top ten victories in my 19 years at Penn State. I couldn't be happier for the players.

Joe Battista

We've been waiting for something to happen in the management ranks in order for them to change their strategy.

John Eade

He still ranks among the favorites in Turin.

Armin Zoeggeler

You might outsource some folks and bring some up through the in-house ranks, use contractors for other roles.

Andy Walker

There has to be a lot of cooperation. We are in implementation, but a company had better have people in its ranks who are capable of dealing with the supply chain.

Brad Mack

This issue of the amendment ranks dead last on a list of priorities for voters.

Brad Luna

I call upon the leaders of the Islamic countries and the Arab countries to close ranks because this is really, basically it's our fight, ... Those [terrorists] are people who claim to be part of Islam, they are not. They claim to be part of the Arabs, they are not.

Ayad Allawi

I was just desperate to win it. It was such a big occasion and right now it ranks as the best. We can win grand prix events but it is the medals you have won that define your career when it's all done.

Nathan Robertson

I'm interested in a major college coaching job, period, ... I have an agent who's working on finding me a job either in college or in the professional ranks. I said years ago that I want to win another national championship, and the only way I can do that is to be coaching.

Nolan Richardson

There are a lot more opportunities, and there are a lot more women in the company. Women are moving into managerial ranks more quickly.

Nancy Yieh

Now that the ranks of the alternative low-cost or free ISPs are being rapidly thinned, the remaining service providers run less risk of losing customers.

Daniel Peris

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

Konstantin Stanislavsky

Now, would it replace giving up cigarettes? No, I don't think so. Would it replace adjusting your lipids? No, I don't think so. But it's a very powerful factor and I think it probably ranks with cholesterol as an important factor in heart attacks.

Norman Hollenberg

Look, some men have left our ranks because they couldn't deal with this catastrophe.

Warren Riley

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius

I think it's a great hire. I remember Glen as a player. I think he's an upcoming star in the coaching ranks.

Mike Jarvis

It's limiting the opportunities for new officials to crack the ranks.

Deb Hauser

This one definitely ranks up there.

Randy Sanders

There's a tremendous depth of talent within Berkshire's executive ranks.

Keith Trauner

So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.

Geena Davis

In the beginning, I tried to reach out to her, ... but I decided it would be best for me and the rest of the children to just close ranks and protect ourselves. I'll probably never see her again.

Mia Farrow

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

Bernadette Devlin

But the economy and family responsibilities have reduced our volunteer ranks to the point that we must expand our career staff.

Bill Gillette

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

Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.

Ted Kulongoski

Tourism now ranks as one of the areas of economic growth.

Ignatius Chicha

The U.S. ranks behind virtually every other developed country when it comes to seat belt use, and never has mediocrity been so deadly for a nation.

Alan Mcmillan

He came all the way up through the ranks the hard way. He's a great boss, because having been an enlisted man, he really has an understanding of what it's like to be one. He's got a great understanding of enlisted people and their value to the organization.

Jerry Crooks

There's a great deal of frustration in the Republican ranks right now about the fact that the Republican leadership – whether Arnold Schwarzenegger or George Bush – is not making it a priority to close the border to illegal immigration.

Karen Hanretty

The combination of the two companies creates a U.S.-based global enterprise that will join the ranks of the largest oil companies in the world.

David J. O'reilly

There were few people lining up at Iberia check-in counters Tuesday morning, where they would normally be several ranks deep.

Al Goodman

We need reconciliation. There were hundreds of ordinary people in the ranks of the Taliban. If we give them a chance, they will work for the future of the country rather than fighting against it.

Karim Rahimi

We don't have very many skill players ... that's a big loss. We have to close ranks and keep marching.

Walt Harris

The depleted ranks of peers are annually replenished by fresh appointments from the ranks of its higher squirearchy, the appointments being made from a list annually prepared in the pentagonal Camelot.

Maj Josiah Bunting

If it's not the biggest win for us, it ranks right up with the biggest.

Tony Wingen

They responded the way I thought they would. They closed ranks and just kept rolling along.

David Pyper

Despite the fact that to date our company ranks first in the world for oil reserves (according to the generally accepted international methods of assessment), a pace of development of no less than 7% a year is planned for our company. This calls for constant increases in our raw material base.

Sergei Bogdanchikov

Wal-Mart is, in fact, taking people off America's uninsured list. We estimate that we've taken 160,000 people off the ranks of the uninsured.

Nate Hurst

At the pro ranks, it's every man for himself.

Jack Collins

As more women enter the ranks of do-it-yourselfers, we will see an influx of products designed to women's needs and tastes.

Terry Tuerk

I knew this day would come. I knew I would one day fall back into the ranks of the troops I left.

Andrew Ramirez

There's no question investors are swayed by personalities. It's propelled mutual fund managers into the ranks of rock stars.

Burton Greenwald

I've had my fair share of career accomplishments, and this ranks right up there in the top three, ... I'm truly humbled by this.

William Floyd

Since I came here, I always gave La Salle respect. Coming up through the ranks, they didn't get a lot of respect. They're a real hungry team, and they've always been that way. They've obviously been through some changes, but I give them respect. Those guys play hard.

Will Caudle

It ranks right up there.

Je'kel Foster

We want to talk about who are those coming up from the ranks and are they prepared to take over these leadership positions.

Anne Ackerson

Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other.

Mary Ashton Livermore

I think it will move through the high school ranks first. And eventually, we think it will be basically everywhere for students of all ages and all types.

Tim Hill

This investigation ranks as, probably, the worst I have ever seen.

Pedro Irigonegaray

Typically Virginia ranks among the 10 most affordable states to buy gas in.

Martha Rowe Mitchell

It's exciting to have the rare opportunity to build a new team at a new school. I'm looking forward to joining the ranks of the excellent coaches Jackson has had for years.

Tim Osborn

Our concern is that this is a very unique chemical. It lasts, literally, for eternity, and now it has been determined to be a likely human carcinogen. That ranks it up there with DDT, PCBs and dioxin as a very serious hazard. It needs to be banned.

Richard Wiles

Children of well-to-do parents often become victims of their parents' personal ambition. Many are forced to achieve high ranks at school, or even to become child celebrities against their wishes.

Seto Mulyadi

We have an outstanding freshman class this year. They have come through the ranks together in Babe Ruth and were very successful.

Chris Vermeer