Advantage Quotes - page 2

As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt. (John Desmond Bernal)
I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage. View quote
David Attenborough
RESIGN, v.t. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared. View quote
Michael Korda
Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one. View quote
Octavia Butler
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. View quote
Jane Austen
All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the quarries. Under cover, they play their part well; but in open and exposed situations the frost and rime make them crumble, and they go to pieces. On the seacoast, too, the salt eats away and dissolves them, nor can they stand great heat either. View quote
Vitruvius
I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it. (Herman Wouk)
Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service. View quote
Robert Collier
If Paulus's army had capitulated before the end, the Russians would have had the advantage of withdrawing forces against Paulus and against the southern front, where I had only two Romanian armies. Therefore, the resistance of the Sixth German Army, even to the death of the last man, was necessary. View quote
Erich von Manstein
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up. View quote
Bette Davis
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not expect that once taking advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian has always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on an agreement signed by you, you are supposed to justify. They are not worth the paper it is written. Therefore, with the Russian is to play fair, or do not play. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier. And clearly you British have an advantage. You were crazy beforehand. View quote
Michael Morpurgo
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. View quote
Manuel Puig
There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty. (Eugenio Montale)
It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark. View quote
Larry King
I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you. View quote
Larry King
We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that. View quote
Layne Staley
We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life. View quote
Alex Campbell