Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

But we just had to explain to them the advantages and disadvantages of amending our Constitution.

Rubin Carter

But we did have a conversation or two about advantages and disadvantages.

Jennifer Smith

Barrier free is becoming a large industry in and of itself. There are nothing but advantages for it.

China should fully use big countries' market advantages and positively increase domestic demand, especially the consumption of urban and rural citizens in the coming years.

Nigel Clough

Chris Hall is one of the last players to agree a contract. That was one of the advantages of the Manchester United game. We were able to get the players we wanted to keep sorted out with contracts early.

Laura Hall

Obviously, she's 6-6, so she's going to have some advantages inside. She's going to be their go-to focus so we need to work on defending that and forcing the lob -- playing in front and pushing back. Our biggest key is staying out of foul trouble and not to picking up silly fouls and bailing her out.

Given some of the advantages Davis had at the start of the race - the better name recognition and being from a bigger media market and being a U.S. Rep. and Smith being hampered by fundraising for almost a month - If I was Smith I'd be pretty happy with where I was.

Steve Staios

I don't think you'll see such dramatic changes, ... There will be some advantages for guys, and some disadvantages for others. Not being a 225-pound defenceman, I think that's going to be an advantage for me personally.

If one seminary should be well organized, its advantages would be found so great that others would soon be instituted; and that sufficient patronage can be found to put one in operation may be presumed from its reasonableness and from the public opinion with regard to the present mode of female education.

Winston Graham

I have been told of the many extra advantages of word-processing, and I acknowledge them. But, apart from other reasons, I find that a sentence, a page, a book, assumes a different nature when it is first in manuscript, second in typescript, and third in page proofs.

Richard K. Morgan

I'd always had a hankering to write some old-school sword and sorcery. And there certainly are advantages to that particular form - for one thing, you're able to go all-out on the imaginative front, with a lot less concern for the usual unities of time and space and character.

Dalton Trumbo

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one

George Vancouver

Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.

Having a more intelligent quad-core, as opposed to the dual dual-core, translates to better power usage and, in theory, far better performance. The advantages are that you get a higher degree of sharing with caches and buses.

Juan Williams

I think the idea of fact-checking, I think the idea that you come up through a system where you know how to cover night cops, and then you go on, and you go on to various beats, including writing obituaries, and you get names right, you know how to spell them, really has some advantages to it.

Robert Crandall

Given the range of the product line that Boeing has, we don't think we're precluding ourselves from any capabilities of modern airplanes. At the same time, we're getting some unique advantages by establishing that partnership kind of relationship.

I would consider as a grave error a wedding which would put us on a level with the English and which perhaps would make me consider the advantages of a republic,

If we have to park 300 trucks, the advantages automatically die,

We knew we had a lot of advantages at every position. So we knew offensively it wasn't going to be a problem tonight getting points. But we've got to do a better job of getting back on defense.

There are a lot of parents who never intend to have their children in daycare before kindergarten, and they see a lot of advantages in being able to utilize this money to give their kids the kind of pre-school support they need.

There are a lot of parents who never intend to have their children in day care before kindergarten, and they see a lot of advantages in being able to utilize this money to give their kids the kind of pre-school support they need. You have to look at the whole picture.

Frances Wright

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.

David Morrell

One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he'd done it for a living.

Chellie Pingree

Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates - and Maine is in a good position to capitalize on those opportunities.

Hugh Laurie

The strange thing - and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial - is that wherever I am, that's sort of home.

There are several advantages to our services. We are in the community where people live, you don't have to wait, and you can consider the cost savings.

There are lots of retailers that are now scrambling to emulate the Amazon model, so Amazon does not have a monopoly on same-day distribution or broad selection or low prices. All that said, there are advantages that accrue to the largest player, so I don't see much in the way of Amazon slowing down.

Lara Logan

exploits her God-given advantages with a skill that Mata Hari might envy.

Alex Berenson

It's no secret that big institutional investors have a lot of advantages on Wall Street. They get the first chance to buy hot initial public offerings. They get to meet in person with companies' managements.

There are a large number of advantages to the system. You get a lot of shrimp from a small space, you're able to offer a truly fresh product you can't generally get in a grocery store, and there are very little problems with disease because its a bio-secure facility. This is the future of shrimp farming.

There are advantages to having him around our veteran guys. But we want him to play, so that (the developmental league) is an option.

Sarah Wilson

There are advantages of doing your course in the country where you want to teach. The school may have a recruiting department. And purely by being there, it's often easier to find a job, because you'll be talking to people who may help you find work.