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The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. -- Anton Chekhov
Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end. -- Bjork
Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population. -- Dwight Schultz
I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage. -- Jermaine Dupri
In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand. -- Ronnie Montrose
The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy. -- Richard N. Haass
Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Women are quite unlike men. Women have higher voices, longer hair, smaller waistlines, daintier feet and prettier hands. They also invariably have the upper hand. -- Stephen Potter
A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot. -- Plato
Fifteen minutes later I was an expert. That's all you need. I think I was even getting the upper hand, which is very simple with a guy. Anything seems to turn them on. -- Melina Marchetta
Today we're seeing fundamental conflicts within political Islam, with the fundamentalists on the one side and the moderates on the other. Who gains the upper hand means a great deal to the world. -- Zalmay Khalilzad
Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous. -- Elizabeth Bowen
There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth. -- T. S. Eliot
In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing that, realizing it's okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you're sure you can regain the upper hand when you absolutely need to. -- Ellen Hopkins
The workplace has become a psychological battlefield and the millennials have the upper hand, because they are tech savvy, with every gadget imaginable almost becoming an extension of their bodies. They multitask, talk, walk, listen and type, and text. And their priorities are simple: they come first. -- Morley Safer
There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give up. -- C. S. Lewis
I remember being in the audition with Mark [Duplass] and I remember not being able to dominate him. He's so smart and centered and grounded. I can't do what I'd normally do to someone in this situation. I can't get the upper hand in the scene. I was really impressed and excited about the possibility to work with him. -- Jackie Schaffer
The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand. -- Noel Coward
I'd like to see an arrested growth of development. You can't stop it, but it's important we do something about the developers having the upper hand. -- John Murray
Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities. -- Bono
I feel like in order for our team to have the upper hand, I have to play extremely well, and I have to bring the rest of the team with me. That's how I feel approaching every game. -- Kevin Love
That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost. -- Lynn Johnston
Development in this county is always going to be an issue. Until development and zoning are handled on a regional basis, rather than each municipality left to its own devices, we will suffer from developers having the upper hand in suits and in front of zoning boards. -- John Murray
In a gas, motion has the upper hand; the atoms are moving so fast that they have no time to enter into any sort of combination with each other: occasionally, atom must meet atom and, so to speak, each hold out vain hands to the other, but the pace is too great and, in a moment, they are far away from each other again. -- William Henry Bragg
I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas. -- Tahir Shah
Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand. -- Elizabeth Von Arnim
And wonder, dread and warhave lingered in that landwhere loss and love in turnhave held the upper hand. -- Simon Armitage
It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Most leaders would agree that they'd be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand. -- Stephen Covey

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