Famous Quotes & Sayings

For sure, we took too many penalties late in the game. But we took advantage while they were in the box.

H. P. Lovecraft

Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

If I serve well as county commissioner, the experience I gain could lead to other opportunities down the road that I will certainly take advantage of.

If he thinks about it like that, it is an advantage, but it would be nice to have 30 more pounds on him. Size means a lot at that (weight class). He definitely moves better than any heavyweight. What Cain has over everybody else is his heart. He's relentless in his training and in the way he competes.

Jim Lefebvre

I felt we were a little flat coming out of a big game (Friday night). I thought our hitting was flat, our pitcher was a little nervous and they took advantage of it. When you don't get a lot of hits, it always looks like your team is down. We weren't getting anyone on base.

I felt we had used a lot of energy getting back into the game with a furious press and that we were beginning to run on fumes. Also, I was confident that our personnel was much quicker and could use the spread offense to our advantage against the taller Taylor team.

I felt very bad for the people that had gotten robbed and taken advantage of.

William E. Gladstone

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, ''God speed her!'' She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

David Toms

If I'm playing a power player and he hits it 350, I just want to hit the fairway. Use the advantage that I'm first to hit into the greens and put pressure on him that way.

If I'm a company that is primarily using Windows servers and I haven't been a big user of Unix, for me to bring Linux into my environment would be a significant expense. I'd have to get people trained, develop policies and procedures and processes. It's building a whole new infrastructure, and if I can avoid doing that why wouldn't I? If I can make use of open source applications and get all the advantages of open source and still run on Windows, why not? Then I can still take advantage of all the expertise I have.

I definitely think I have gotten better because of the experience, but the biggest thing for me was getting more opportunities. As the year unfolded, guys were going down and more opportunities came for me. When the opportunities came, I tried to take advantage of it.

I definitely appreciate her example. I take advantage of it every chance that I get.

Mike Sherman

I can't think of a bye week we went into healthy, ... I think organizationally, we take full advantage of the bye. The philosophy whether we're going into the bye winning or losing, I've kept the same philosophy - how many days we're going to work with the players, the coaches' schedule, our research analysis, the changes we need to make.

I don't think there is any advantage. Up until last year, I think we had a mental edge. But since they beat us last year, they got over the hump and now they know they can play with us.

I don't think there is any advantage of playing them a second time. Fayetteville is a hard place to play for any team.

I don't think there's any question it looks like they're left-handed, and rightly so. If you have those kinds of people on the field, you might as well take advantage of them.

I do try to pick a full-length ballet and a choreographer that will continue with this quest to really push my dancers and take advantage of how strong they are right now.

Jason Pominville

I don't think he realized I was right behind him. He had his back turned, and I just swatted his stick and it went straight in. It was kind of taking advantage of a forward out there, and it paid off.

Rebecca MacKinnon

I don't think any foreign Internet company can effectively compete against Chinese companies in the Chinese market. The regulatory environment is so difficult that it's almost impossible for foreigners to have an advantage over locals who have better political connections and who can manipulate the regulatory system much more effectively.

I don't see it helping either side because I haven't been around their program for four years. I'd be shocked if he had any idea what we were doing or knew anything about our personnel before this week. If anything, we might have a slight advantage because we get to see them a lot on television. Our games aren't really televised that often.

Kenneth Harris

I don't see how it can jump the way it's jumping. I think there's a little greed. I think they're taking advantage of the situation down south.

Richard Sherman

I don't think college athletes are given enough time to really take advantage of the free education that they're given, and it's frustrating because a lot of people get upset with student-athletes and say, 'They're not focused on school and they're not taking advantage of the opportunity they're given.'

I am very pleased with how we responded in the second period. We took advantage of the opportunities that they gave us and we were smarter about how we attacked.

I asked our girls at halftime if they wanted to give away their home-court advantage for the playoffs. Then we came out and put together a solid second half.

I am not going to make excuses for the situation. Obviously it's an advantage, but that's the way it works. It's not over. We still have a lot of preseason and a lot of training camp left. You have to come out fighting. Believe me, I am not going to lay down here.

I am proud of the kids for the way they stayed in the game and came back and found a way to win. I was a little disappointed with the lack of intensity we showed today. But, White pitched a strong seven innings for us to take advantage of.

Michael Keaton

I fear they will take advantage of the good will of the people who continue to show up. For my money, that's disrespectful. At some point, you either have to write the check or do something and not assume, well, we're OK and, ultimately, the franchise is valuable, anyway, like Donald Sterling did with the Los Angeles Clippers.

Stanley Fischer

I fear so, but I see no advantage to spelling that out.

Bill Elliott

I feel its unfortunate that some people are taking advantage of a bad situation, ... Im keeping my prices as low as I can.

I don't want to take away from what they've done in San Jose, they've done a great job. But it's not a neutral court. It's an advantage for the two Bay Area schools to play down there.

I don't think these kids were even around for the first two games at Darlington. This is only the third (regional championship) in school's history. I tell them 'you don't know when this opportunity is going to happen, you'd better take advantage of it.' It's a piece of history.

Paul Levinson

I don't think the First Amendment entitles journalists to take advantage of illegal activities.