Advantage Quotes

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.

The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.

Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously.

It's about taking advantage of the opportunities you have right now, and right now we're in a position where you call somebody and they're willing to pick up and take the call because they're a fan, you have to take advantage of that and have a chance to capitalize on your ideas.

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.

I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.

The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.

Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.

My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C.

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.

In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.

Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.

Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when my first daughter was born, but I was encouraged to take advantage of my ability and drive and remained in school.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.