1.
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?
Maurice Ravel
2.
But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.
David Harvey
3.
Everybody will have lower rates, better quality, and better access.
Nancy Pelosi
4.
Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.
Fredrik Bajer
5.
Time doesn't flow at the same rate for everyone. You can change time. You can slow it down, you can speed it up.
Jim Al-Khalili
7.
We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.
Jeff Rich
9.
I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.
Edwin Powell Hubble
10.
The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.
Peter Diamandis
11.
There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate.
Gustav Holst
13.
There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.
Hans Eysenck
14.
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.
Robert Boyle
15.
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
Alan Watts
16.
I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
John Major
17.
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
Peter Lynch
18.
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.
David Ricardo
19.
I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.
Snoop Dogg
20.
Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.
Barack Obama
21.
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.
Thomas S. Monson
22.
If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
23.
You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.
Chris Kyle
25.
When asked how to achieve success more rapidly, came the quick reply, 'Double your failure rate'.
Thomas J. Watson
26.
Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.
Brian Sandoval
27.
I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
David Bowie
30.
The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.
Og Mandino
31.
The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.
Hans Eysenck
32.
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.
Sarah Waters
34.
Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.
Marlene van Niekerk
35.
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.
Wretch 32
36.
Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.
Brian Schmidt
38.
To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.
Heraclitus
39.
China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
Bill Gates
40.
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.
Charles Darwin
41.
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.
Deepak Chopra
42.
A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.
W. H. Auden
43.
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.
Don Marquis
44.
I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.
Jack Vance
45.
The death rate is a fact; anything beyond this is an inference.
William Farr
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Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.
Mary Astell
47.
You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials
Natalia Ginzburg
48.
Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.
Bill Gates
49.
If you are asking me if I would advocate that the Chinese go to greater flexibility in their exchange rate, I certainly would.
Ben Bernanke
50.
I can't rate myself, but if you ask Russell I'm sure he'd give me a ten out of ten.
Katy Perry