Advantage Quotes

"I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know, those guys take advantage of it"

Roger Clemens, Athlete

"I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry"

Jean Rhys, Novelist

"But then, I just decided to get off my lazy butt and take advantage of the L.A. weather"

Jason Biggs, Actor

"It's being in the right place at the right time and taking advantage of your opportunities"

Lee Majors, Actor

"If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of"

Jeff Garcia, Athlete

"Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be"

Roger von Oech

"In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all"

Nigel Dennis, Writer

"The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease"

W. Averell Harriman, Politician

"I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you"

Larry King, Entertainer

"At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home"

Michel Patini

"The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror"

Peter Kropotkin, Revolutionary

"More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit"

Tim Murphy, Politician

"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"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job"

Thomas P. O'Neill, Politician

"We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction"

Michael McCaul, Politician

"The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation"

Phillip E. Johnson, Educator

"In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British"

William Whipple, Politician

"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion"

Demosthenes, Statesman

"Now the advantage is all with the hitters"

Rogers Hornsby, Athlete

"While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap"

Ray Kroc, Businessman

"Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today"

Walther Bothe, Physicist

"People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education"

David Soul, Actor

"I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities"

David McCullough, Historian

"It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered"

Michael Harrington, Writer

"The advantage of working for a corporation is that it has only one message, because a product or a service doesn't speak; it's just there, and you can advertise it"

Frank Luntz, Politician

"FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good"

Felix Adler, Educator

"So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage"

Jonathan Kozol, Writer

"We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way"

Ibrahim Rugova, Statesman

"I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in"

Diego Maradona, Athlete

"Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind"

Edward Hicks, Artist

"I shall have less cause to regret the carrying my intended purpose into effect, foreseeing that you may immediately fill with advantage, the vacancy which will presently happen"

Henry Laurens, Politician

"We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage"

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Politician

"The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage"

Christopher Gadsden, Soldier

"But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not take advantage of that, especially if you can do something that's entertaining as well. I've done a number of things like that over the years"

David Lloyd, Artist

"The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country"

Bulent Ecevit, Politician

"Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it"

Arthur Herzog, Novelist

"My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor"

Antonia Fraser, Author

"It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it"

Antoine Rivarol, Journalist

Page 7 of 8