Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
The only disadvantage to directing if you've been an actor is how self-conscious you are. When I'm directing, I'm always so aware… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
The English were infuriating. Everything was designed to put an outsider at a disadvantage. If you had to ask, you didn't belong. — Daisy Goodwin Copy Share Image
A media-only campaign has its advantages, but it also has its very severe disadvantages. — Ken Cuccinelli Copy Share Image
Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn. — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
Physically you are a human being, but mentally you are incomplete. Given that we have this physical human form, we must safeguard… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk… — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
A winner, a champion, will accept his fate. He will continue with his wheels in the dirt. He will do his best… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate that we should find ourselves at this time the only disorganized group. Others have had the advantage of organization… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Much of the world is focused on answers. This unfortunate. Situations change, the earth turns, and our needs fluctuate. Focusing on static… — John Fairclough Copy Share Image
The advantages we gain from EU membership clearly and categorically outweigh any disadvantages that come with it. — Ruth Davidson Copy Share Image
One of the advantages and disadvantages of WCW had to deal with was being a member of Turner Broadcasting. — Eric Bischoff Copy Share Image
A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a… — Gayle King Copy Share Image
Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
