Quotes About Advantage

In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the moment came, our lives -- and time itself -- would speed up. How were we to know that our lives had in any case begun, that some advantage had already been gained, some damage already inflicted? Also, that our release would only be into a larger holding pen, whose boundaries would be at first undiscernible.

He was all too aware of the failings of his species and he knew how to use them to his advantage. A fascinating skill. A useful one. But hardly a loving one.

To be honest, today's runners may as well go back to being nude as them Lycra pants they wear don't really hide much, do they? It's plain to see that if Usain Bolt went back to the old ways of running in the nude he would have an advantage getting over the finish line before anyone else. It

In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king.

Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

The instinct to notice changes gives women a tremendous advantage over men.

There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.

The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference.

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

See, the Black man gotta fly to get to something the white man can walk to.

Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.

Education is an asset no man can take away.

In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.]

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

The successful man or woman always looks for the advantage or benefit in every situation and lo and behold, they always find it.

Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.

What's so wonderful about being 6'3. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?

Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.