#advantage

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#consideration #only #ruled #world

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so. ↗

— Elizabeth A. Sherman

#always #american #avoid #brutal #dictators

I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#disadvantageous #even #formally #future #going

The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan. ↗

— Mark Shields

#community-based #department #emergency #hospitals #institutions

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions. ↗

— John Sladek

#depending #least #preconceptions #sf

We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that. ↗

— Layne Staley

#be real #friendly #nice #people #real

CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#copies #could #digital #disadvantage #expensive

When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#action #advantage #always #between #comedy

Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage. ↗

— Luciano Pavarotti

#always #called #pavarotti #sometime

I'm just trying to make up for lost times, and I have total awareness that when the work is coming it doesn't mean it's going to continue to come, so I'm taking advantage of this phenomenal period that I'm in now, to its fullest. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#awareness #come #coming #continue #fullest