A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I'm pro-trade, but I'm pro-sensible trade, not pro-trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker. — Wilbur Ross Copy Share Image
One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
I've always been able to do what I wanted. On the other hand, my mother was. She considered the fact of being… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder every burden every disadvantage I've learned to manage. I don't have a gun… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
It is ironic that a movement that made its reputation championing the irrelevance of biological differences when those differences were to most… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Of course, the advantage is that, being in this business, you get to learn a lot, experience a lot of new things,… — Aaliyah Copy Share Image
The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The second rule is to… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred… — Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In daily practice, reflect on the benefits of love, compassion and kindness, then reflect on the disadvantages of anger. Such continuous contemplation,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A rebounder, or a shot-blocker for that matter, is always at a disadvantage if he tells himself the only way he can… — Bill Russell Copy Share Image
I shot the way I wanted to shoot [in The Hateful Eight]. The only real disadvantage I felt at the time, but… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a disadvantage. — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
There are a lot of disadvantages with the YouTube stigma, because no one wants to be known as just a cover band.… — Alex Goot Copy Share Image
I've learned that the more people embrace their disadvantages, the less disadvantaged they become! — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair. — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
All the world over it is true that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, like a wave on the… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
Science is neither a single tradition, nor the best tradition there is, except for people who have become accustomed to its presence,… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Don't make your audience play Jeopardy. Giving your answer before asking the question puts your audience at a disadvantage. It will also… — John Fairclough Copy Share Image
Every time you envy someone you use a muscle in your face to disadvantage. If you do it only once or twice,… — Arlene Dahl Copy Share Image
The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I’ll always be prepared. Everything is there so… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
People often assume I assume I am a thrill seeker, but I am not. I do not enjoy roller coasters, and you… — Steve Fossett Copy Share Image
Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right,… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I know that in the battle of ideas, Republican politicians are at a distinct disadvantage. Their fundamental philosophy - which I characterize… — John Yarmuth Copy Share Image
Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it… — Susan Hampshire Copy Share Image
To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Masters points out that the heterosexuals were at a disadvantage, as they do not benefit from what he called “gender empathy”. Doing… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image