Quotes of: Advantages Keyword

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

Theophrastus

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Robert M. Pirsig

The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.

Richard Rogers

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.

Mariella Frostrup

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

J. Paul Getty

It turns out that, if you want to know what the U.S. military is doing in Africa, it's advantageous to be connected to a large engineering or construction firm looking for business.

Nick Turse

We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.

Sidney Altman

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Henry David Thoreau

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

David McCullough

It is possible that strong levels of belief in God, gods, spirits or the supernatural might have given our ancestors considerable comforts and advantages.

Robert Winston

The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.

Ann Romney

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

Carol Leifer

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult.

Michael Bond

A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors.

Margaret Heffernan

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Miguel de Cervantes

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.

Elizabeth A. Sherman

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

Hakeem Olajuwon

The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis.

Bill Goldberg

I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.

Hedy Lamarr