Great Quotes

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

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

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

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

When we're touring America or Europe, we use our own plane and a great advantage of that is it cuts out an awful lot of time checking in. You literally drive up to the plane, get on and then drive off at the other end.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage.

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

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

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.

Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.

Scientists are human, they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.