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. Theodore Roosevelt
I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide. J. G. Ballard
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. John Moody
On the scale of country crime, rape tended to rank with shouting boo at chickens. Lindsey Davis