Advantage Quotes

It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

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

I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't see it as a disadvantage. You're that much more unique when there's fewer of you.

There is no single advantage a woman of truly enduring fascination can possess that is so splendid as speaking with a foreign accent, whatever her origin.

A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's expense.

There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.

Tall people have a real advantage in the world.

One day you are the hero and the next day you are the zero. I got to take advantage of every opportunity that I have.

Hurricane Charley is the worst natural disaster to befall our state in a dozen years, and it is unthinkable that anyone would try to take advantage of neighbors at a time like this,.

To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.

I have a great advantage: I write from the perspective of my own voice. I'm not copying anyone's voice. It's my voice. I have the advantage of being a writer of English as a second language.

Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.

It's amazing how relaxing it is not to claim you know more than you do. I'm surprised that those who claim to speak in the name of god don't take more advantage of this relief.

I can only give you some hints. You have to place him in a situation where your advantages are magnified.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?

For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from and disconnected from the world of deal making.

My career has sort of been characterized by taking advantage of the changes in the marketplace, sometimes by design, sometimes by accident.

Appreciate how rare and full of potential your situation is in this world, then take joy in it, and use it to your best advantage.

Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.

Take advantage of this great opportunity in your life to live it well, to be good, to have good works, and to influence other people for good.

There is a person whose acquaintance and conversation I do earnestly recommend unto you as thing of the greatest advantage: you will be surprised when I tell you it is yourself.

I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.

Iraq has gone from being on the brink to being on the mend, and it clearly has some big advantages.

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.

I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-'60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn't the night before.

I disobeyed a basic basketball rule and never boxed out. I figured that if I had the inside position I had enough of an advantage to just go get the ball. And coaches left me alone because I got it.

I've used the laws of the country to my advantage.

When I look at what Donald trump have proposed, you have what is called now the Trump loophole, because it would so advantage you and the business you do.

When Secretary [Hillary] Clinton talks about people that didn't get paid, first of all, they did get paid a lot, but taken advantage of the laws of the nation.

I believe colleges should not be allowed to benefit from unlimited federal largesse while taking advantage of students.

It's been a company [Exxon] that's been unbelievably managed and to me, a great advantage is Rex Tillerson knows many of the players and he knows them well.

The fact is that the Chinese are taking advantage of America. And by the way, the Chinese can't even believe that they're getting away with it.

The government of Mexico is terrific. I don't blame them for what's happened. I don't blame them for taking advantage of the United States. I wish our politicians were so smart.

Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

None shall take advantage of his own wrong.

When the lights go out at a power plant sometime in the future, we're going to know that that's a consequence of deprioritizing defense for the sake of an advantage in terms of offense.

There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.

I don't think comedians take advantage of the fact that television and film are visual mediums.

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.

Great opportunity is all around you and it will inspire you to either take advantage of it or deny that it is there.

Not suing others does not mean that others won't sue you.If people are desperate enough to think that they can gain some kind of financial advantage, they'll sue.

Some take advantage of natural resources to put the capital in the hands of the few, while some use these natural resources to benefit the majority, as we do in Bolivia.

They, and they only, advantage themselves by travel, who, well fraught with the experience of what their own country affords, carry ever with them large and thriving talents.

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.