Rung Quotes

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time.

Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too'.

I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.

Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending.

It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers.

Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

Like success, failure is many things to many people.

With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn't have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up.

Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung.

My life is a hesitation before birth.

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.