Pastoral Resources

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.