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In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails. -- Jack Nicholson
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. -- Havelock Ellis
By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung. -- William Collins
Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is. -- Sylvester Stallone
Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing. -- Mitch Daniels
I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell. -- Larry Sabato
When I played for the Steelers and I got my bell rung, I'd take smelling salts and go right back out there. -- Terry Bradshaw
We must display a heart for every American, and a special passion for those still on the first rung of life's ladder. -- Mitch Daniels
If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth. -- Franz Kafka
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
Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth. -- Franz Kafka
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class. -- Jackie Speier
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. -- Thomas Huxley
Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group. -- Jim McKay
My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung. -- Toby Young
It's a very confusing experience living as a woman in Japan. If your husband is white-collar, the wife is blue. Even if you marry a person of status, the wife inevitably remains a rung below. -- Natsuo Kirino
Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up. -- Jay Carney
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. -- W. Clement Stone
You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen. -- Dave Winfield
There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead. -- David Mamet
When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the way along the supply chain the need for more potatoes to be put on a truck a thousand miles away. --
If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone. -- Donny Osmond
We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it's because life is so short, and there's so much that can change. -- Ben Carson
When people say that you kind of just get - you know, just feel like a little buzzed or dazed or had your bell rung - they consider that a concussion. I wouldn't. But if that is considered a concussion, I would say any football player at least records 50 to 100 in the course of a year. -- Troy Polamalu
Composure is the first rung of leadership. -- Junaid e Mustafa
That's done it! Now I've rung the front-door bell! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder. -- Stephen Reid
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon. -- Thomas Huxley
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said. -- Francois Rabelais
People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply. -- Honore de Balzac
A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder. -- Doris Grumbach
No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung. -- James Cash Penney
No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence. -- Reginald Heber
Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und VerklÃ¤rung. -- Richard Strauss
May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young. -- Bob Dylan
Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder. -- Huey Lewis
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit. -- Douglas William Jerrold
Success is about happiness and security, rather than hitting any particular sort of job or rung on the career ladder. -- Suw Charman-Anderson
If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rung his bell, What would you buy? -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes
I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell. -- Larry Sabato
Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society. -- Taylor Hackford
When I'm on a break from writing, I'll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly being rung by deliverymen. -- Sophie Kinsella
The blogosphere is real, and it can be really harsh on fakes... so, if you're a phoney, you're going to get your bell rung. -- Jason Calacanis
This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs. -- Joan Jett
Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rung the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way... well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't! -- Michael Fish
Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder. -- Edmund Phelps
There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher. -- Jodi Picoult
Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top. -- Banana Yoshimoto
I think it is inflationary. I think it actually is counterproductive in many ways. You end up costing jobs from people who are at the bottom rung of the economic ladder. -- Paul Ryan
Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair. -- Frederick Locker-Lampson
Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf. -- Victoria Moran
I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time. -- Bel Kaufman
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Philippians 4:13 has never rung so true... You were an unparalleled Giant in all sense of the word, Dad. So keep doin' you up there, because no one does it better, and no one ever will. -- Cassidy Gifford
The other side of midnightâ??s hour strikes a herald thrice rung Seer, Shadow, Sunâ??together they come Sixteen winters henceâ??the light shall be eclipsed Leaving darkness to ascend beneath a sky bleeding fire -- Alyson Noel

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