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  • I really don't care that I'm ranked. -- Terry Bradshaw
  • I was ranked the second most conservative member in the House. -- Jason Chaffetz
  • The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax. -- William Floyd
  • In 2010, I was ranked top 50 in the deadlift in three different weight classes, and I won my first natural bodybuilding competition. -- Matt McGorry
  • I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked. -- Michael Pena
  • It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents. -- Douglas Brinkley
  • It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are. -- Mike Krzyzewski
  • When I enter that higher-order space that's required to write, I'm a better human. For whatever my writing is, wherever it's ranked, it definitely is the one place that I get to be beautiful. -- Junot Diaz
  • I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life. -- David Eddings
  • The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind. -- Nassau William Senior
  • The 'find it, fix it 'model of medicine doesn't work any more. The U.S. healthcare system is bankrupting the country, bankrolling the insurance companies and exhausting healthcare staff. And despite all that, we are ranked 50th in the world for life expectancy. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting. -- Emily Oster
  • I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles. -- Matthew Perry
  • What's interesting is relative levels of introversion tend to stay the same. If you went back to your reunion from school, you would probably find that if you ranked everyone in your class into terms of levels of introversion and extroversion you'd still be the same rank. -- Susan Cain
  • We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. -- Tom Brown, Jr.
  • At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis player. I had won many tournaments. To be an athlete was my first choice. Second choice: designer. However! There was more money in being a designer at that time. -- Oleg Cassini
  • Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.' -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • When I was in the army, there were four times that I was wounded. I also got more than 30 wounds on my body, and my injuries were ranked on the second rank of invalids. The first rank is the most severe. So, that means that I had lost more than 60 per cent of working capability. -- Nguyen Tan Dung
  • One summer, when I was a kid, I was in the car with my stepfather, and he was asking me where I thought I ranked, on a scale of 1 to 10. I said, '6,' and he said, '3.' I think it was his way of telling me that I needed to get out and really attack life. -- Jim Rash
  • People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player. -- Samantha Stosur
  • Have I ever pretended to be something? I think back in college I think I might have told a girl that I was a professional tennis player once. And then, of course, she had never heard of me so I had to dig deeper. 'I'm just sort of on the playing satellites. You know, I'm kind of working my way up. I'm not ranked in the top 100 or anything.' -- James Roday
  • It doesn't matter what you are ranked until the end. -- Nick Saban
  • I think that ranked-choice voting makes a lot of sense. -- Julianne Malveaux
  • Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters. -- Ilona Andrews
  • We are linked and not ranked. Ever butty is equal, everyone is the same. -- Amy Richards
  • The number one ranked team is playing the number 10 ranked team. That's the reality. -- Dav Whatmore
  • Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine -- Frederick Douglass
  • As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high -- Franz Beckenbauer
  • It would be fantastic to have the two top-ranked players in the world playing out of the same club. -- John Higgins
  • If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he would have been ranked among the great minds of our people. -- Adolf Hitler
  • I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them. -- Louisa May Alcott
  • There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking. -- Muhammad Ali
  • I've had some decent wins this year against higher ranked players but what I've failed to do is to build on those. -- Tim Henman
  • Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another . . . It's all praise, and it's all right. -- Rumi
  • Animals obviously ranked higher in Michaela's world view than humans. Having seen some of the things humans were capable of, Elena couldn't disagree. -- Nalini Singh
  • It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight. -- Ivor Grattan-Guinness
  • Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it. -- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
  • I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party. -- Ulysses S. Grant
  • Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being. -- Starhawk
  • In Toronto, Serena Williams was not fit at all, not striking the ball well at all, and went three sets with someone (ranked) 92 in the world, -- Tracy Austin
  • I was ranked No in the world and then I was out for months between my shoulder surgery and my parents getting in a motorcycle accident in , -- Tommy Haas
  • Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men. -- Christopher Morley
  • The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked. -- Amy Richards
  • ...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc. -- Charles Fourier
  • There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker. -- Nikolai Gogol
  • If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number. -- Alexander Hamilton
  • Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins. -- William Faulkner
  • The reality is we are still ranked 10th and we are playing a team ranked second in the world who are playing at the top of their game and are at home. -- Dav Whatmore
  • there is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're arranged in a hierarchy, that we're ranked rather than linked. -- Gloria Steinem
  • The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by the enlivening dews of God's clemency, till the reapers abolitionists shall shout the harvest home. -- Henry McNeal Turner
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