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It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject — Claude C. Hopkins

I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a way to get more up to speed. — Gayle King

Where all is fog, a blind man with a stick is not entirely at a disadvantage. — J.W. Dunne

One of the biggest disadvantages of being grown up is seeing the time rush by faster. — Pawan Mishra

The Internet has changed everything. We expect to know everything instantly. If you don't understand digital communication, you're at a disadvantage. — Bob Parsons

Larger sums may be an advantage at some cases and a disadvantage at others. — Warren Buffett

Confidence is a tool. Arrogance is a disadvantage. — Courtney Lane

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear. — J.B. Morton

The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage. — Ann Voskamp

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage. — Tony Dungy

Secrecy has this disadvantage: we lose the sense of proportion; we cannot tell whether our secret is important or not. — E. M. Forster

Most families rely on two incomes to make ends meet, and when a woman earns less, we put working families at a huge disadvantage. — Ann McLane Kuster

The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn. — Richard Reti

Bad people often end up as heroes. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Being disabled doesn't have to be a disadvantage. — Oscar Pistorius

Looking at Sophie's well developed bosom, Harriet felt at a disadvantage. Perhaps Sophie's shape would not last. but it was enviable while it lasted. — Olivia Manning

who had the advantage of seeming to be an American without the disadvantage of actually being one; and Adeyemi, — Robert Harris

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market. — Ron Chernow

The disadvantage of working over networks is that you can't so easily go into someone else's office and rip their bloody heart out. — Jim McDonald

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. — William S. Burroughs

Women, however charming, have this disadvantage: they distract the mind from food! — Agatha Christie

My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career. — John Waters

Social injustice is what puts Scotland at its greatest disadvantage, and restoring the 50p tax rate will start to fight that. — Johann Lamont

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms. — George Bernard Shaw

If a company in Australia has to pay tax and the other one doesn't, of course it's a disadvantage. — Gerry Harvey

The wise leader's plans, considerations of advantage and of disadvantage will be blended together. — Sun Tzu

Frivolous, disconnected, an amateur at everything, I shall have known thoroughly only the disadvantage of having been born. — Emil M. Cioran

People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy. — Mildred S. Dresselhaus

The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage. — Joanna Scott

I don't think, as an actress, you want to be beautiful. It's actually a disadvantage because that's not where all the interesting parts lie. — Tuppence Middleton

If you can't hear a language, then you are at a severe disadvantage when you're trying to learn it. — Ron Gullekson

She's the Goddess of the Hunt. You might be at a disadvantage. — Sarah J. Maas

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage. — Stevie Wonder

It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage. — Alain Prost

I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair. — Ann Beattie

Every advantage has its disadvantage. — Johan Cruijff

You probably think I'm at a disadvantage. I promise you, I'm not. — Jack Bauer

There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage. — Joel Barlow

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage. — Peter Lynch

I'm excited about representing my gender, but at the same time it doesn't matter. I wouldn't say my gender has been a disadvantage. — Katy B

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage. — W. Clement Stone

The party that negotiates in haste is often at a disadvantage. — Howard Raiffa

Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage, — Niccolo Machiavelli

The disadvantage with people is that you can't put bookmarks in them and set them aside till you want them again. — Orson Scott Card

There is the disadvantage of not knowing all languages," said Conseil, "or the disadvantage of not having one universal language. — Jules Verne

Nobody owes me anything. I am not at a disadvantage. I am equipped, empowered, and anointed. — Joel Osteen

To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage. — Edward Albee

Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.
Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation. — Idries Shah

The man who's mad is at a disadvantage. The man who laughs can ride out anything. — W.T. Ballard

Edith Wharton did have one potentially redeeming disadvantage: she wasn't pretty. — Jonathan Franzen

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents. — Margaret Halsey

Nothing is given without a disadvantage in it, — Colleen McCullough

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat. — Mark Twain

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose. — Francesco Guicciardini

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage. — Carl Jung

A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage.
[Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.] — Ovid

I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me. — Susan Rice

Make all approaches to the stream with care and caution. Remember that once you are seen you are a great disadvantage if not completely defeated — Ray Bergman

Whoever loves the more is at a disadvantage and must suffer — Thomas Mann

The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage. — Ken Buck

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities ... it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood. — G.K. Chesterton

Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit. — Napoleon Hill

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. — Dean Inge

So much depends on the constant cooperation of well-trained servants. Without it, the best bred of hostesses is placed at a disadvantage. — Lucy Lethbridge

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The English were infuriating. Everything was designed to put an outsider at a disadvantage. If you had to ask, you didn't belong. — Daisy Goodwin

It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage. — Henry Petroski

Life's not fair but not always to your disadvantage. — John F. Kennedy

The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage. — Aaron Rodgers

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. — Philip Sidney

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains. — Gautama Buddha

Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up. — Morton Hunt

If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education. — Julius Genachowski

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been. — Evan Esar

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. — Albert Camus

I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age. — Suzanne Collins

I don't think it's so much of a disadvantage setting up from scratch. — David Leslie

God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a disadvantage. — Israel Shenker

Binoculars, and a hawk-like vigilance, reduce the disadvantage of myopic human vision. — J.A. Baker

We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage. — J. E. B. Stuart

It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed. — Samuel Johnson

Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity. — Lord Chesterfield

If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage. — Sam Altman

Now we are seeing the disadvantage of not knowing every language," said Conseil "or is it the disadvantage of not having a universal language? — Jules Verne

As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women. — Fay Weldon

Being disabled doesn't mean you have a disadvantage — Oscar Pistorius

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage. — Marilyn Vos Savant

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him. — W. Somerset Maugham

I was an only child. It's a great disadvantage being an only child. — Graham Greene

I moved to Hollywood when I was 18. I never saw it as a disadvantage in any way. Quite the opposite. — Jaume Collet-Serra

One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage — Niccolo Machiavelli

A child should have every advantage - including those taught by disadvantage. — Terry Rossio

Because you took advantage of my disadvantage. — Vladimir Nabokov

She said that that was the disadvantage of bringing creatures into the house: one grew used to them, and then, one had the upset of their loss. — Sarah Waters

80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage. — Ellen Hollman

Every disadvantage has its advantage. — Johan Cruyff

She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Do not undervalue what you are ultimately worth because you are at a momentary disadvantage. — Sherry Thomas