Quotes About Top

I feel like I can be one of the top defenders in the league and that's what I'm going to try to be.

If we are going to ask questions of the defensive guys, then we are going to ask questions of the guys at the top end as well.

In Madrid, the demand is maximum, and you have to always be at the top. If you are not, doubts come.

The way the Democrats go about seeking equality is to lower people at the top.

I think the game will always be dependent on the players that are at its most elite level at that time.

The Champions League has always been a target of mine. I do want to play at the top.

Don't tell me that the rules prohibit you from hitting a guy up top. You have a whole target area above his knee up to his neck that you can hit.

Politics has become very corporate. There's a whole farm system for the teams. There's decisions made at the top. There's a lot of literal corporate involvement, PAC money involved in selecting and backing candidates.

Romney is right: free enterprise is on trial. But he's wrong about the question at issue in that trial. It's not whether America will continue to reward risk taking. It's whether an economic system can survive when those at the top get giant rewards no matter how badly they screw up while the rest of us get screwed no matter how hard we work.

For three decades almost all the gains from economic growth have gone to the top. In the 1960s and 1970s, the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans got 9–10 percent of our total income. By 2007, just before the Great Recession, that share had more than doubled, to 23.5 percent. Over the same period the wealthiest one-tenth of 1 percent tripled its share. We haven't experienced this degree of concentrated wealth since the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century.

Quality isn't something you lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects, the cone from which the tree must start.

Hot April sunshine poured in through the open top of the old Caddy, shafts of it splattering into rainbows as they sliced through the facets of the spiderweb windshield.

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Michael Young, the English sociologist who coined the term "meritocracy," despised the fashion for it: first, because it is largely a smug fantasy perpetuated by those who sit at the top of the social pyramid; and second, because it bestows on those at the bottom the slur that they are there because they have no merit. Even feudalism spared the poor that insult: their lowly station was an accident of birth.

Envy always follows in the track of virtue: as Horace says, it is ever the mountain top that is smitten by the lightning.

It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world. East of the sun, and west of the moon.

Governments from the top fail as often as those from the bottom; and every great failure brings a sad social reaction, thousands and millions of helpless men laying down their lives in the unhappy process.

great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun, was the square top of Kilimanjaro.

Because there was no pre-existing patrician elite, those successful in the new book industry could write very swiftly to the top of the social hierarchy.

What I have said to my team is that at a point such as this, with 40% adjustment in our currency, it means that Malawians are paying the price. While that is going on, they need to see, us, the commitment on our part, particularly right at the top. The political will needs to go through this with the people, side by side.

Print is at the very, very top in the fashion business - of course it is.

Healthcare is consistently the top issue that people talk to me about, and it continues to be one of my top priorities in Congress.

We have seven months before the election. Our top priority as fiscal conservatives is to make sure President Obama retires.

The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority.