Disadvantages Quotes - Page 10

• Something that works for one person could be a disadvantage to another.

  Rafael Nadal

  Persons

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't want my children to be at a disadvantage, growing up in the limelight, because then they have to live up to an identity already cut out for them, relating all the time to being so-and-so's daughter or so-and-so's son.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Daughter, Children, Growing Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

  Robert Musil

  Ideas, Stupidity, Use

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.60, Pan Macmillan

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• I shot the way I wanted to shoot [in The Hateful Eight]. The only real disadvantage I felt at the time, but I don't feel now, was that we weren't able to get a zoom lens, and I had really gotten used to using a zoom lens for that little zoom creep. But it was also a nice thing to be forced to not use all the tools that you've gotten used to, from time to time, and to be able to work in a different way.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Real, Nice, Eight

  Source: collider.com

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• I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first met, you told me that a disguise is always a self portrait, how true of you, the combination to your safe – your measurements. But this is far more intimate. This is your heart, and you should never let it rule your head. You could have chosen any random number and walked out of here today with everything you worked for. But you just couldn’t resist it, could you? I’ve always assumed that love is a dangerous disadvantage. Thank you for the final proof.

  Mark Gatiss

  Heart, Thinking, Simple

  "Sherlock (TV Series) - A Scandal in Belgravia". www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder every burden every disadvantage I've learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish. I walk these streets famished.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  New York, Gun, Cities

  "Song: "My Shot" ("Hamilton")". 2015.

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• And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.

  James Agee

  Cancer, Sea, Definitions

  James Agee (2013). “Cotton Tenants: Three Families”, p.21, Melville House

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• A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very old or very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads.

  Louis L'Amour

  Sleep, Men, Gentleman

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.215, Bantam

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• Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Advantage

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.166, Hamilton Books

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• The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I’ll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be at an advantage at the moment of truth. Actually, that’s not accurate. Everything’s there so I won’t be at a disadvantage at the moment of truth.

  Etgar Keret

  Pockets, Facts, Moments

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• Much of the world is focused on answers. This unfortunate. Situations change, the earth turns, and our needs fluctuate. Focusing on static answers puts one at a disadvantage. Empower yourself by searching for the right question as if it were a buried treasure and treasures will find you.

  John Fairclough

  Empowering, Needs, Answers

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• [...] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.

  Nick Hornby

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Intelligent

  Nick Hornby (2005). “About a Boy”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

  Jane Austen

  Opportunity, May, Fixing

  "Pride and Prejudice".

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• I think Bob appreciated my outfit. He made me buy the more expensive pendant. You might think that was to my disadvantage, but I accept that status comes with a price.” “Not usually so immediately.” I shake my head. “You better not be hitting on federal agent ladies. They’ll arrest you.” His grin widens. “I like handcuffs.” I groan. “There is something seriously wrong with you.” “Nothing that a night being worked over by a hot representative of justice couldn’t fix.

  Holly Black

  Night, Thinking, Justice

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• Creativity isn't about the advantage or disadvantage of a specific time or culture. Creativity is something that comes internally from a human being having a genuine mistrust of rules. And that may be the constant. It's almost like there's some rebellion in it.

  Paula Scher

  Creativity, Culture, May

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• If woman wants to have kids and work a little less she has a big disadvantage compared to a male colleague who has a stay-at-home wife packing his suitcases.

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

  Home, Kids, Wife

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you don't get trained for your SATs in America today, you are at a disadvantage. Training is expensive and a lot of kids don't get trained, perhaps. So I also identify with the kid or the person who has grown up in environments like I've grown up in.

  Millard Drexler

  Kids, America, Training

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• A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common than to see wealthy persons live scandalously and miserably; riches do them no service in order to virtue and happiness; therefore 'tis precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Order, Principles

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• Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.

  Joseph Addison

  May, Action, Notoriety

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.279

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

  Ovid

  Beauty, Countenance

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• Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Jail, Married, Prison

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• Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.

  Francis Quarles

  Giving, Poverty, May

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.57

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• Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Two, People

  Fear of Flying ch. 10 (1973)

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• Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews.

  Jeremy Collier

  Passion, Play, People

  Jeremy Collier (1728). “Essays upon several moral subjects”, p.161

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• Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.

  William Shenstone

  Clothes, Shining, Dresses

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