Advantageous Quotes

79 quotes by 67 authors

There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American… — Bill Bryson
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other… — Abraham Lincoln
I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the middle class like a spy… — John Cheever
Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. — Henri Poincare
Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions. — Sun Tzu
The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous. — Grove Karl Gilbert
Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous. — Sun Tzu
It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at… — Samuel Johnson
It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental organization under which… — Leo Tolstoy
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients,… — Alexander Hamilton
I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise. — Mickey Rourke
Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of… — N. Scott Momaday
Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and… — Saint Augustine
The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no… — Morton Feldman
We must recognize the full human equality of all our people - before God, before the law, and in the councils of government. We must… — Robert Kennedy
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means ... — Henri Poincare
The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is… — Konrad Lorenz
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. — Sigmund Freud
It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will have… — Andrew Jackson
A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is always… — Antoine-Henri Jomini

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