Quotes About Prospect

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.

Depreciation of money can benefit debtors only when it is unforeseen. If inflationary measures and a reduction of the value of money are expected, then those who lend money will demand higher interest in order to compensate their probable loss of capital, and those who seek loans will be prepared to pay the higher interest because they have a prospect of gaining on capital account.

there is no room for transactions which do not compensate for the risk of loss by the prospect of a gain.

Opportunity is in the eye of the beholder.

Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish.

Summertime is always the best of what might be.

The dream is for a distant time.

I would have gone to Loughborough to study business management and was looking forward to that very much.

If you are in a situation where you can turn an opportunity into something great, grab that chance.

Fall asleep dreaming of the promise tomorrow brings.

painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.

Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.

How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification.

How often the prospect of future happiness is thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification!

He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth.

pleasant-enough place, as cemeteries went, and if somebody had told him that he'd be buried there, after a life of, say, a hundred forty years and much more sex and barbecue, he would have been content with the prospect.

She had some hope, now. First chance

Will, is the precursor of possibility, and the foresight of potential.

I am absolutely delighted at the prospect of joining a world famous club like Inter.

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.

Most good things come with the risk of something bad.

with Bergotte, the embarrassment of the name, laden with its disconcerting preconceptions, was insignificant compared with the chagrin I felt at the prospect of tying this man with his goatee to the work I knew, as though to a balloon, and wondering whether it might still have the power to become airborne.

It has been said that beauty is the promise of happiness. Reversing the idea, the prospect of pleasure can also be the beginning of beauty.