Quotes About Prospect

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

Y hay momentos en los que tu entera conciencia está llena con el conocimiento de que algo maravilloso va a suceder.

Perhaps more than the prospect of an Iranian bomb, I realized early in my term, Obama feared the impact of a preemptive Israeli strike.

Aubrey Fitzwilliam knew that crisis was another word for opportunity.

His strategic belief was that there was no reason not to heap excessive puffery on a prospect. But if the prospect was ruled out as a buyer, there was no reason not to heap scorn and lawsuits on him or her.

Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Opportunity only gives you knockers once.

The implications are sobering: the non-West not only finds itself replicating the West's trauma on an infinitely larger scale. While helping inflict the profoundest damage yet on the environment – manifest today in rising sea levels, erratic rainfall, drought, declining harvests and devastating floods – the non-West also has no real prospect of catching up with the West.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

It was a dizzying prospect—to imagine all that freedom, to understand how little it mattered what choice he made.

For anyone who would not accept military obligations, no expansion of land ownership would be permitted. For Mennonite families with several sons, there was now little prospect of acquiring more land. Acquisition of land was to be allowed only under special and pre-approved arrangements.