Quotes About Prospect

It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.

I want people talking about me as a great fighter - from being a prospect with the big pressure as soon as I turned professional, then going on to win the world title.

America provided things that form the foundation of who we used to be: the prospect and potential of hope, mercy, and freedom for strangers who came carrying not much more than a determination to survive in a big country with a bigger heart.

He is improving all the time. He is only 21 and who knows what he is capable of. (on Cristiano Ronaldo)

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

and he couldn't endure the prospect of a longer operation.

Her bosses saw her as an ideal prospect.

expectations about their

Neuroscientists have found that the prospect of making money stimulates the same primitive reward circuits in the brain that cocaine does.

Some will be alarmed by the prospect of a doctor's writing about the inevitability of decline and death. For many, such talk, however carefully framed, raises the specter of a society readying itself to sacrifice its sick and aged. But what if the sick and aged are already being sacrificed—victims of our refusal to accept the inexorability of our life cycle?

The prospect of being locked in my own, ugly mind terrifies me.

Narrow-eyed, Vane watched her go, watched her hips sway as she glided along. He remained in the archway until she reached her door. He heard it shut behind her. Slowly, very slowly, his features eased, then a Cynster smile tugged at his lips. If he couldn't escape fate, then, 'ipso facto,' neither could she. Which meant she would be his. The prospect grew more alluring by the minute.

To embrace the contingency of one's life is to embrace one's fate as an ephemeral but sentient being. As Nietzsche claimed, one can come to love that fate. But to do so one must first embrace it, though one instinctively recoils at such a prospect.

It's nice to have things to look forward to.

It's nice to have things to look forward to.

To be the recipient of such hate, without the prospect of a word of comfort from those who loved you. The way Margery had isolated herself made Alice want to weep. It was like an animal that deliberately takes itself off somewhere solitary before it dies.

A silent promise, if you like, that there was a bigger picture, a brighter future.

I'm wondering whether any of you have reached a point where you can consider the prospect of life five years on. Where do you see yourself? What do you see yourself doing? Do

If we spend our lives in the pursuit of a temporal happiness; as riches or sensual pleasures; credit and esteem from men; delight in our children, and the prospect of seeing them well brought up, and well settled, &c.--All these things will be of little significancy to us. Death will blow up all our hopes, and will put an end to these enjoyments.

While some of these may represent true and meaningful advances, what have been called "scampaigns" are a new prospect.52–54

But that outcome looked more and more unlikely.

presidents were particularly alarmed at the prospect of losing bank supervision duties

The prospect of improvement in the economy was nowhere in sight.

Opportunity is the great bawd.