Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Stuart Mill

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.

In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.

Lying is cognitively complex. It is not easy to lie. It is certainly more difficult than telling the truth. Some people have a biological advantage in lying. It gives them a slight edge.

Lying is cognitively complex, ... It is not easy to lie. It is certainly more difficult than telling the truth. Some people have a biological advantage in lying. It gives them a slight edge.

Making public the conditions of special contracts that utilities are allowed to enter into when recruiting industry would give other states and their utilities an unfair advantage and jeopardize Mississippi's economic future.

Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children laugh and show off their jeans for an apparel ad is just as exploitative and less natural. Toddlers' natural state, like, 30 percent of the time, is crying, and it doesn't indicate pain or suffering.

Madison and Natalie played (Pickerington Central's girls twice during the regular season in singles. They won both, so we had a mental advantage over them. UA was the bigger match. I wasn't even worried about the finals. The UA match is the one we wanted because anytime you can beat UA, it's big.

Lots of teams in the Big East have been giving us wide open 3s and taking away the backdoor. They did the opposite, and we really took advantage of our cutters.

Diane Neal

Legal dialogue is awesome, but you can't ad lib. It's much more fun to be looser and say things like, 'Can I work in a Han Solo reference?' I'm a 'Star Wars' freak.

Lets get rid of the ad hoc, 'Lets Make a Deal' kind of federalism.

leaves the company highly exposed to ad revenue at a time when the online advertising environment is deteriorating.

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation.

Aristotle

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

Man, you've just got to take advantage of any situation that favors you. There's no doubt the guy is talented or they wouldn't have taken him so high in the draft, but it don't matter who's trying to keep away from their quarterback. My job is to take down the quarterback, not to worry about the guy standing in my way.

Edward Kennedy

Many of us are hoping that he will take advantage of it, ... Whether he will or not, I don't know.

Haley Barbour

Many will see the vote on shore-based gaming as the first defining vote of where Mississippi is headed, ... Will it be business as usual; the same old, same old? Or are we going to lift our horizons and take advantage of this opportunity to have something better?

Many are taking advantage of first-month-free offers at apartments, not knowing what their plans are going to be.

Scott played hard right from the tip. We might have had an advantage inside, and we hit more shots, but hats off to their coach and kids.

Scoring the first 11 points straight was a huge advantage, especially in Madison. We know both teams were going to come out hard with this being (the possibility) of their last game and all, so we were just happy to get hot right away.

Bob Dole

Senator Dole sponsored an ad today that said, 'If you're going to talk about a man's record, talk about the whole record.'

So I think when they report today, you want to take a look into the numbers and see what the ad revenues were for last quarter and, indeed, as this year progresses.

So I'm pushing myself, but I am still at heart a home cook, and I use that to my advantage when talking about food.

She took it over. She took advantage of her size inside. A good player will take advantage of what they give you, and she did.

Maria Sharapova

She was picking the ball up early. She used my pace and the quickness of the court to her advantage and came up with some very good shots.

She was more of a take-it-to-the-hole kind of player in high school. In high school, she was the go-to player. She was expected to score. At this level everyone can score. Now, she has a good understanding of the concepts and taking advantage of mismatches.

Obviously they were a little tired and a little flat. We took advantage of the situation.

Obviously, the easy thing is to add more policemen, and we're doing that. A lot of communities in the U.S. have seen a correlation between improving neighborhoods and reducing crime.

Obviously, nothing would make us happier than to have every one of our employees take advantage of our smoking cessation program.

Obviously, more people vacation during peak season, but there are plenty of people who prefer to travel during the cooler months. Maybe they want to avoid the crowds, maybe they want to take advantage of the lower rates, or maybe they just want a break in the February doldrums.

Brian Gionta

Obviously he's a huge part of this team and he's going to add a lot to it, but with or without him, we need to change things and play differently. We're making too many of the same mistakes and that's what hurting us. For a guy to come back and correct all that, that's not going to happen.

Tim Hudson

Obviously coming out in the fifth inning is not what you want. I threw the ball alright. i got some pitches up in the zone and they took advantage of it.

Obviously a club that struggles as badly as this one on the field for points there is going to be speculation about the manager and its way forward. I do not want to add to that speculation.

Todd Howard

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