Rankers Quotes & Sayings

I AM JESSE DITTLEY. DID YOU NEVER EAT YOUR GREENS?"
[ ... ] She said, "I lost the genetic roll of the dice."
"DAMN STRAIGHT. — Maggie Stiefvater

Back-benchers and Last-rankers in School; they have determined hands, powerful minds and courage to turn the mountain of opportunities in their favour, grind challenges and mould desires and dreams into Grand Realities. — Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty. — Julia Cameron

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure. — David Viscott

Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren," he said, "then get your behind back in here. — Darren Shan

God may be the captain pilot of this universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities. — H.L. Mencken

I could have been a bomb-disposal expert, or a volunteer for the Mars mission, or a firefighter, or something safe and sensible. But no, I had to be an historian. — Jodi Taylor

Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity. — Rudyard Kipling

There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes. — Amit Kalantri

With 100 million people, somebody is using your product in some interesting way. If you change it ... you're going to break some use cases. — Mike Krieger

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together. — Margaret Thatcher

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah! — Rudyard Kipling

We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,
We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,
And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.
God help us, for we knew the worst too young!
from Gentleman Rankers — Rudyard Kipling

One key quality of all global achievers is that, they keep improving day after day. They set standards that they keep surpassing year after year. — Israelmore Ayivor

The air smelled like testosterone and manflesh again. (That was a thing, right?) — Gena Showalter

With American Morons, Glen Hirshberg confidently shoulders his way through the generational pack to claim his rightful place on the summit. These stories are smart, challenging, ripe with feeling, expansive in every way: Horror as it should be writ, and as only the best and most expressive can write it. — Peter Straub

Wow, bossy and nasty. What a fun combo. — Gini Koch