Advantage Quotes
2117 Advantage quotes by 1488 unique authors
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Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.
— Don DeLillo
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If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections,…
— Thomas Paine
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Cassandra sat on the floor with Chris and Kat, playing Life. They had tried to play Trivial Pursuit earlier only to learn that a Dark-Hunter…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara
— Masashi Kishimoto
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As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do…
— Jonathan Tropper
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Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to…
— Saul Bellow
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(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,” Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Slash was about my height, and he used the alignment of our bodies to his greatest advantage. I let it go on for a few…
— Jeaniene Frost
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I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.
— David Levithan
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Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that…
— Paulo Coelho
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When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And…
— William Shakespeare
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Did ya get in a couple of good swipes?" Emmett asked eagerly. "No! Of course not!" "No, not really? You really didnt attack him?" "Emmett!"…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity,…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who…
— Susanna Clarke
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People with power always take advantage of those without power.
— Christopher Pike
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As the three of them walked home from the trees, nobody needed to say it, but Ama knew. They had questioned their friendship. They had…
— Ann Brashares
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Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to…
— Iain Banks
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As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across premieval swamps…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to…
— Ken Blanchard
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No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his…
— Jane Austen
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