Disadvantages Quotes - Page 13

• Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.

  Margot Asquith

  Profound, Laughing, May

  Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”

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• 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

  War, Fighting, Army

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• Those of us living in the state of in between have certain advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of being exposed to a new culture and in my case the freedom that comes with living in the USA. The disadvantages of course being that you will never experience again being a center or quite home anywhere.

  Shirin Neshat

  Home, Usa, Culture

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• It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Running, War, Fighting

  Woodrow Wilson (1903). “A History of The American Poeple”

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• It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fitness, Relaxation, Human Nature

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• 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

  Careers, Ideas, Interesting

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• I've always been big. I'm never going to be an underwear model. But I am who I am, and that has its advantages and disadvantages.

  CC Sabathia

  Who I Am, Underwear, Advantage

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• There's a certain kind of neurological makeup that goes along with being a writer, and having been in the room with a few other writers at the same time, it's rather wearing to be around. And it does - there is a kind of hypervigilance about it. Unfortunately it's got disadvantages. If you turn that hypervigilance on yourself and, for instance, whether or not you have a pimple on the end of your nose, it can get really depressing.

  David Foster Wallace

  Depressing, Makeup, Doe

  Source: news.stlpublicradio.org

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• [My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Humanity, Vision, World

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• As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves'. This is football.

  Ian Mortimer

  Sports, Football, Loss

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• He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it easy or aspires after too much. Thus a slight disadvantage is very frequently seen to convert into a good, solid advantage.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Play, Psychology, Too Much

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.255, Courier Corporation

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