Quotes About Ranking

Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.

So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.

Newlywed couples strolled the Mall—Washington now outranked Niagara as a sexual shrine

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I'm not saying it's good or bad; it kind of is what it is.

Fourth is the worst position to finish. You just missed the podium.

I know where I'm ranked, but I don't look at it that much, I don't study it that much. You really can't look at it that way, you've got to try to win as many matches as you can, and it's cliche, but you've got to take it one at a time.

For me, it's more important to bring my level up and make sure that I can compete against guys in the top 100 and top 50 instead of maybe being 120 or 130 and not being able to compete with those guys.

Essentially, if you are surrounded by those who 'outrank' you, it is likely to affect your identity in insidious ways.

I was No. 1 in college at Syracuse. I've been No. 1 a lot.

generals outrank colonels who, in turn, outrank majors and captains and lieutenants, and everyone, but everyone, outranks children. Within the ranks of children, boys always outrank girls. One way of grinding this particularly irritating pecking order into the young girls was to teach them the old and ridiculous art of curtsying.

As we saw, Gilligan's work suggested that men tend to reason in terms of autonomy, rights, agency, justice, and ranking; and women in terms of relationship, care, responsibility, communion, and nonranking (with individual men and women capable of any of those across the whole spectrum).

And remember, Liverpool reserves are not just any team. Liverpool reserves are the second-best team in the land, son. The only team better than the Liverpool reserve team is the Liverpool first team.

And although we are presently ranked first in the world in health-care spending, we are ranked thirty-seventh in overall health-system performance, according to the World Health Organization,2 and twenty-second in life expectancy among the thirty developed countries.

Google uses click-through statistics as a way to rank search results," George typed. "For people, memory search optimization is achieved by the emotional residue associated with the memories being searched. The strongest emotional associations cause those memories to rank highest.

Very well," replied Auntie Flip. "I came ninety-seventh!" "Congratulations. Ninety-seventh!" "Thank you." Flip blushed with pride. "How many entrants were there?" "Ninety-eight," replied Frank.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in; put second things first and we lose both first and second things.3

Therefore, out of a class of 362 bright young Vassar women, I ended up ranked at 361—a fact that caused my father to remark in horror, "Dear God, what was that other girl doing?

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

We believe PulseRank will replace PageRank over time for the real-time Web.

When I was really rolling in Portland, I was top five in minutes.

Considering myself as a true number one in the UFC, I think Cain Velasquez is the number two.

The top 10 is really hard to break into. You have to play a consistent season for the whole year.

No. 1 records are fine, but in 2016, they just don't mean as much any more - the currency has changed.