Rate Quotes

Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?

But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.

Everybody will have lower rates, better quality, and better access.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

Time doesn't flow at the same rate for everyone. You can change time. You can slow it down, you can speed it up.

There are many ways to make the death rate increase.

We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.

A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.

I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate.

My success rate is 100 percent. Do the math.

There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased Himself to the sufferance of the extremest of indignities, and sunk himself to the bottom of abjectness, to exalt our condition to the contrary extreme.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.

Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what's actually happening to the companies in which you've invested

Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued.

When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of performance accelerates.

Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.

If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.

I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.

You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.

let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high.

When asked how to achieve success more rapidly, came the quick reply, 'Double your failure rate'.

Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.

Handel is only fourth rate. He's not even interesting.

The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.

The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

I don't rate them, I just hit them.

Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

My music has always been the same. It's the same kinda music but of a better quality. For me nothing really changes just the work rate. It's the work rate that changes more than the music.

Taigs don't pay rates.

To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.

A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.

Because scientists know that all human beings do not age at the same rate, biological age is measured by how well one's physiological systems are functioning.

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.

The death rate is a fact; anything beyond this is an inference.

Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

I can't rate myself, but if you ask Russell I'm sure he'd give me a ten out of ten.

If you are asking me if I would advocate that the Chinese go to greater flexibility in their exchange rate, I certainly would.

I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do.

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.