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Quotes About Prospect

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
~ Cecil Beaton
Summertime is always the best of what might be.
~ Charles Bowden
Las cosas suelen resultar mejor de lo que uno espera.
~ James Herriot
The world is before you
~ James Joyce
When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly.
~ John O'Toole
In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.
~ Bill Gates
Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.
~ Thomas Haden Church
Tomorrow Is Just A Dream Away
~ Thomas Wayne
Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations
~ Norton Juster
After a lifetime in which every experience of love was touched by shame and suffering, the prospect of falling in love filled Ka with an intense, almost instinctive dread.
~ Orhan Pamuk
It is only to the sentimentalist over some tame midland prospect that man appears vile. In Sirene he holds his own with the sublime eccentricity of the natural scene. In Sirene he lives.
~ Compton Mackenzie
I yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people I've known in life I don't know what I'd do. That would be the ultimate horror. The ultimate despair. If I had to meet my mother again and start all of that all over, only this time without the prospect of death to look forward to? Well. That would be the final nightmare. Kafka on wheels.
~ Cormac McCarthy
V. THE COMING OF THE LORD How the Negro became free because the North could not win the Civil War if he remained in slavery. And how arms in his hands, and the prospect of arms in a million more black hands, brought peace and emancipation to America.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
It was not the prospect of the Last Day which depressed him but rather the prospect of living through an ordinary Wednesday morning.
~ Walker Percy
Hope sees what is not, but yet will be.
~ Charles Peguy
Don't focus on what sucks, focus on what's possible
~ H.W. Mann
THE APPROACH OF Thanksgiving on November 29 sent Springfield into a panic—not over the nation-imperiling crisis plaguing its leading citizen, but the apparently more dismaying prospect of a local turkey shortage.
~ Harold Holzer
The future is as full of promise as it is fraught with uncertainty.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
It is only a stupid cow that rejoices at the prospect of being taken to a beautiful abattoir. ~ African Proverb
~ James Walsh
It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.
~ Jane Austen
Elinor, in spite of every occasional doubt of Willoughby's constancy, could not witness the rapture of delightful expectation which filled the whole soul and beamed in the eyes of Marianne, without feeling how blank was her own prospect, how cheerless her own state of mind in the comparison, and how gladly she would engage in the solicitude of Marianne's situation to have the same animating object in view, the same possibility of hope.
~ Jane Austen
After you get a job and before you have to do it. Nothing beats that.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
David Ogilvy once put it, "I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard.
~ Tim Wu
Most of the states of Europe had no prospect of social transformation, and thus little ability to rival or counter the Nazis and the Soviets.
~ Timothy Snyder