My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.
Joshua Chamberlain

In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
Martin Van Buren

Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.
Thomas Friedman

The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.
Andre Kostelanetz

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Quintilian

I want, in this school, that one sex shall have equal advantage with the other, and I want particularly that females shall have open to them every employment suitable to their sex.
Leland Stanford

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
Alanis Morissette

In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.
Nigel Dennis

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system.
Matthew Lesko

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
Judith Viorst

There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.
Ethel Merman

I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
David Attenborough

I feel like I have a new life and I'm going to take full advantage of it.
William Green

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
Manuel Puig

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
Arthur Erickson

The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.
Leland Stanford

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
Lafcadio Hearn

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