Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I never got a chance to take advantage of 'Superbad' at school because I graduated before it came out, so I never got to use any of my fame to pick up girls and go to cool parties.

Philip Yancey

In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Christians is a lifeline and you'll risk anything for the privilege. No one attends church in China casually, or for a social advantage - quite the opposite.

David Suzuki

Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By using experience, knowledge and insight, our ancestors recognized they could anticipate dangers and opportunities and take steps to exploit advantages and avoid hazards.

Douglas Conant

If you're a wounded company, the other companies that have been around for a hundred years will smell it, and they will take advantage of you in a heartbeat. It takes a long time to get back in fighting form.

Paul Kagame

There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its coming,

Paul Bloom

It is clear that rituals and sacrifices can bring people together, and it may well be that a group that does such things has an advantage over one that does not. But it is not clear why a religion has to be involved. Why are gods, souls, an afterlife, miracles, divine creation of the universe, and so on brought in?

Pete Rose

There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have.

We played well in spots. But a good hitting team takes advantage of mistakes by pitchers. We lost to a good-hitting ball team today.

We are convinced that this deal is in our national interest. And the greatest advantage is that it takes a country that is outside the international non-proliferation regime and begins to bring it ... into conformity with the practices of that regime,

We had some missed assignments once again. There were people out of position and they took advantage of that.

We had some key turnovers and they took advantage of it. They made the plays when they had to, and that's what winning championships is all about. It was a good, competitive game and we'll learn from this and move on.

We had some key offensive series there. We had the one pick and roll we were able to score off of. Anytime you have a little bit of a lead, you have the advantage because eventually they're going to have to foul. Ashley (Ahrens, junior point guard) did a nice job of setting up the offense and taking control. She got us all on the same page.

We had some great field position that we didn't take advantage of in the first half and we gave them an opportunity to stay in it.

Les Moonves

Tom Kane is a consummate professional whose experience in local television, both as a general manager and in sales, has benefited us greatly since he joined our group two years ago, ... The positive growth at CBS and UPN continues to provide great advantages for us at the local level, and I'm counting on Tom to seize those opportunities to improve our positions in all the markets where we compete.

To miss those two, I thought I was done for. To get a second chance, the best thing you can do is take advantage of it.

Paul Allaire

We are looking at everything and are looking at options we have associated with that investment, ... We will continue to focus on things like color. We think that's a real advantage and a market opportunity for us... but you should not expect to see a change on color.

Bill Belichick

We?re just going to try to take advantage of every opportunity we have to put the best team we can on the field this year.

Terry Stotts

We're coming back to the Bradley Center, and the Bradley Center has been a great building in the playoffs. They call it home-court advantage for a reason so we've got to go home and take advantage of it.

Samuel Bodman

We recognize there are some bad actors that may be to take advantage of the situation,

Steve Ballmer

We recognize that some provisions in our existing Windows licenses have been ruled improper by the court, so we are providing computer manufacturers with greater flexibility and we are doing this immediately so that computer manufacturers can take advantage of them in planning for the upcoming release of Windows XP,

Wilhelm Steinitz

When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

There are benefits in service enhancements providing a better service to customers and all the attendant advantages that can bring, and also operational gains from managing people and assets better.

There are benefits in service enhancements -- providing a better service to customers and all the attendant advantages that can bring, and also operational gains from managing people and assets better.

There are a small percentage of people who terrorize every major American city, ... They have low morals and prey upon the weak. These are criminals. They were housed with law-abiding citizens who they could take advantage of.

There is a tremendous parody in the Big Ten and home advantage has played out this season for every team -- Michigan State has also struggled on the road.

WAN Vaulting takes advantage of our core storage optimization and de-duplication technology and is an alternative to tape copies for vaulting over the highway.

Chen Ning Yang

A graduate student who is still learning courses is not really taking a maximum advantage of a research university's offerings. He should already be finished with course-taking, as he would then be able to shape his own taste about what is a good subject for research work in the graduate school.

Bernie Siegel

You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want to be. When you act like that person, you can become that person. The hard parts are deciding whom you want to become, being willing to rehearse until you become that person, and forgiving yourself until you do.

To hang another banner in this building would be nice. But, more importantly, we can secure home ice advantage through at least the first two rounds.

Thoughtful post-resume communication underscores the traits that companies are looking for. Being able to convey what they could bring to the position can give certain job seekers a significant advantage over less-proactive candidates.

We didn't come out with any intensity. We looked like we were asleep in the first inning. You can't give a team like Central a five run advantage to start the game and expect to win.

Byron Scott

We didn't come out with any fire, any emotion or any intensity and they took advantage of it. We came out very lackadaisical. We just didn't play the second half the way we are capable of playing. We were soft and they did whatever they wanted.