Quotes About Advantage

life is not fair—the cards are incredibly stacked in your favor.

in Federalist Paper Number 45 shows how Madison and the founders saw the limited role of federal government: The operations of the federal government will be at their most extensive and important in times of war and danger, while those of the state governments will be the most important in times of peace and security. Since periods of war and danger will probably occur much less than times of peace and security, the state governments will enjoy yet another advantage over the federal government.

It's like I'm getting two quarterbacks for the price of one

all those able-bodied middle-class people who are scared of their shadows, well, they pay the mediocre tax in regular quarterly installments with compounding interest. When you play it safe, that's what happens, my friend. So if I were you, I wouldn't throw any games. I'd use every fucking advantage. Beat anyone who fucks with you to a fucking pulp. Show no mercy to chumps, especially if they don't deserve it. Make the pussies cry.

do not be put off by the illusory nature of life. Use it. Everything in this life can be an advantage to the wise.

Invisibility is the best advantage. But if forced to a confrontation, Come out with all your skill.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read." —MARK TWAIN

Trust is similar to love, it is easily broken to one's advantage.

Cupping his face in her hands, she looked into eyes that had seen thousands of sunrises before she was even a glimmer in the scheme of the universe. "But you have an advantage," she whispered. "You're a little bit human now.

Pero tú tienes una ventaja —susurró—. Ahora eres un poquito humano.

The scope of it might have driven another man mad; it was to Kaleb's advantage that he'd had his brush with madness as a child and survived. Whether or not he was sane was another question.

Estás jugando con arcángeles. Una «ligera ventaja» supone una gran mejora en comparación con una «muerte segura».

The Psy race's greatest advantage was the mind; the changelings', the body.

Faraday's self-education was deficient in one significant respect: he had learned no mathematics. For him, Ampère's equations might as well have been written in Egyptian hieroglyphics. We shall never know what Faraday would have achieved had he mastered mathematics, but, paradoxically, his ignorance may have been an advantage. It led him to derive his theories entirely from experimental observation rather than to deduce them from mathematical models.

For it is a fact that men must ejaculate in order to reproduce (although science may soon remove this necessity.) Women, on the other hand, do not need to achieve orgasm to reproduce. Men, therefore, have the clear advantage here, in that most of them find it very easy work to achieve sexual satisfaction.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

It is easy—terribly easy—to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work. —George Bernard Shaw, Candida

It is easy—terribly easy—to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.

All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.

A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.