Top 100 Prospect Quotes
#1. Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
John Henry Newman
#2. Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.
Thomas Jefferson
#3. The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.
Raymond Moody
#4. A beautiful woman combining the prospect of happiness and nakedness in the same spoken sentence could achieve the power of the greatest lyric poetry.
Nick Hornby
#5. They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.
Terry Pratchett
#6. If ever the difficulties of your life seem overwhelming, consider the prospect of being eaten alive by savage penguins and rejoice that such horrors are unknown to you.
A. L. Kennedy
#7. It's really easy to insist that people read the manual. It's really easy to blame the user/student/prospect/customer for not trying hard, for being too stupid to get it, or for not caring enough to pay attention.
Seth Godin
#8. Never criticize, condemn or complain in a conversation with a customer or prospect.
Brian Tracy
#9. Going into his master's house to ravish his daughter's maidenhood - at her request? He had never heard of a less sensible prospect.
Diana Gabaldon
#11. The prospect of one day being hauled out of the canal by yet another old enemy was hard for France to swallow, even more so when British and French defence specialists discussed their exit strategy in case of an overwhelming Soviet attack, and the Brits proposed a massive evacuation via Dunkirk.
Stephen Clarke
#12. A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded.
James Dobson
#13. Based on what we know now and can reasonably imagine, there is absolutely no prospect that any human being will ever visit the edge of our own solar system - ever.
Bill Bryson
#14. Prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.
Ambrose Bierce
#15. The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!
Samuel Johnson
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Last month, I didn't even have the prospect of a relationship. Now I've got one cowboy too many, she said.
Carolyn Brown
#19. The Tea Party definitely scored a significant victory with Senator Cruz's election in 2012 and scored victories in some statewide primaries. But to me, as the Tea Party gets stronger within the Republican Party in Texas, the prospect of a blue Texas becomes stronger and stronger.
Julian Castro
#20. When our eyes are set on eternity, the news that someone has come to know the Savior means a great deal more than the news of a salary raise or the prospect of getting the latest high-tech gadget.
Randy Alcorn
#21. If room isn't found for them, they'll find it for themselves. They've a right to live, same as other folk,' he said loudly. The local inhabitants did not look pleased at the prospect.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#22. the best way to get a prospect to focus on you and your product is to spend most of your time focusing on the prospect and her problem.
Marie Maguire
#23. You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.
John Henry Newman
#24. But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
Wendell Willkie
#25. 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
#26. Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
Henry Knox
#27. Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect.
Gareth Gates
#28. When you take on a role you try to do as much as possible beforehand to get your mind into it. Just to prepare because it's a daunting prospect to go six months or whatever.
Jesse Eisenberg
#29. She would have said that love was hocus-pocus, a deception, and she believed that. But at the prospect she still felt a hush, a flutter along the nerves, a bowing down of sense, a flagrant postration
Alice Munro
#30. I had a fine prospect of the whole ring of moorland. I saw the car speed away with two occupants, and a man on a hill pony riding east. I judged they were looking for me, and I wished them joy of their quest.
John Buchan
#31. This bill would allow an employee to bring a claim against an employer decades after the alleged initial act of discrimination occurred. Trial lawyers, you can be sure, are salivating at this very prospect.
Buck McKeon
#32. The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.
Joyce Carol Oates
#33. There are great challenges ahead of us, giant opportunities to be met. I welcome that exciting prospect and feel to say to the Lord, humbly, 'Give me this MOUNTAIN,' give me these challenges.
Spencer W. Kimball
#34. It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I'm sure that he wouldn't like the prospect of it put to him, and I won't even go there with Eminem.
Robbie Williams
#35. It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
W. H. Auden
#36. 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
#37. Afraid of flying?" the man next to her asked, sounding displeased by the prospect. "No, just crashing and burning.
Denise Grover Swank
#38. I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.
Elizabeth I
#39. As an actor, to get a gift of a part like that is unusual. And then, to have the prospect of another one is always going to be interesting and exciting.
Brendan Gleeson
#40. A moral vision must be balanced by the realist dimension of prudence to have a reasonable prospect of success.
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
#41. "I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effect on a long-range basis. Any attempt to use the water this way is deplorable." Charles Gordon Heyd, M.D., Past President, American Medical Association.
Charles Bernhard Heyd
#42. Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on.
Don Cooper
#43. I never understood why she didn't marry you."
The king settled further into the seat with a snort. "Maybe the prospect of being driven out of her mind put her off.
Megan Whalen Turner
#44. I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate.
Ian McEwan
#45. Her self-respect had suffered a head-on collision with love, a clash that generally only ends one way. Love does not fight fair. In that moment her pride, the gut knowledge that she was right, even her sense of who she was, meant nothing, faced as she was with the prospect of being unloved. Faith
Frances Hardinge
#46. The prospect of death in autumn, she said, was irrelevant next to its happy recognition of its participation in the life of the tree itself.
David Guterson
#47. It was no mystery why Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold had singled me out as a prime prospect for their heinous crime. My grandfather, Julius Rosenwald, was the chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck and Co. His prominence made me an ideal choice.
Armand Deutsch
#48. We all get a little rush of excitement at the prospect of buying a brand-new outfit for a first date, but this is not the time. You're much better off wearing clothes, shoes especially, that you've already tested.
Nina Garcia
#49. The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.
Alberto Giacometti
#50. Two Seasons, it is said, exist-
The Summer of the Just,
And this of Ours, diversified
With Prospect, and with Frost-
May not our Second with its First
So infinite compare
That We but recollect the one
The other to prefer?
Emily Dickinson
#51. On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.
William Wordsworth
#52. We had never before seen a place where European influence had not contributed to smooth and soften the rough features of uncultivated nature. The prospect of Rangoon, as we approached, was quite disheartening.
Adoniram Judson
#53. If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.
Ron Fournier
#54. A physical nausea, prompted by all of life, was born in the moment I woke up. A horror at the prospect of having to live got up with me out of bed. Everything seemed hollow, and I had the chilling impression that there is no solution for whatever the problem may be.
Fernando Pessoa
#55. We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and yet there is something so cold and comfortless in the theory that we do not relish the prospect even for our children.
Anthony Trollope
#56. I'm really excited about the prospect of a woman president of the United States.
Barack Obama
#57. Shinya Yamanaka's work has involved mice and human cells, and advances the prospect of providing new cells or body parts for patients.
John Gurdon
#58. There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.
Leon Kass
#59. I'm lucky yes I am don't argue I'm the luckiest bastard in the world. And: how wonderful it was to have before him the stretching, shady avenue of years, the prospect of growing old in the presence of her gentleness.
Salman Rushdie
#60. While I'm no Major League Baseball prospect, I have thrown a few no-hitters in my day. And not only were there no hitters, there was also nobody there to catch.
Jarod Kintz
#61. Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Ambrose Bierce
#62. Growing up under the heavy hand of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, it was drummed into me that attending weekly mass was not an option. It was a must to avoid eternal damnation, which was not a prospect filled with many positives. Hell fire was perpetual, and no parole would be offered.
Bill O'Reilly
#63. Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.
William Godwin
#64. Listen to your prospect's problems. The better you listen to what they need the better your sales relationships will be.
Timi Nadela
#65. Love is in prospect or retrospect, the present is ecstasy.
Nicholas Mosley
#66. Pigpen slips in between a group of guys and waves two fingers at the prospect behind the bar. The prospect slides two longnecks to him, and with them in hand, Pigpen motions with his chin for me to follow.
Katie McGarry
#67. I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.
Kingsley Amis
#68. The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.
Plato
#69. I think the prospect of bringing back grammar schools has always been wrong and I've never supported it. And I don't think any Conservative government would have done it.
David Cameron
#70. The primary objective of a branding program is never the market for the product or service. The primary objective of a branding program is always the mind of the prospect. The mind comes first; the market follows where the mind leads.
Al Ries
#71. It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good;
Samuel Johnson
#72. War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals?
David Gemmell
#73. Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.
James Russell Lowell
#74. That's a terrifying prospect for myself, and I'm sure many other people, as well. We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player, constantly, to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by the idea of solitude. I'm excited about that.
Katee Sackhoff
#75. Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination.
George Jackson
#76. He had a childish urge to throw the phone down. Only the prospect of the pain he'd inflict on himself in the process of leaning over to retrieve it stopped him from giving in to the impulse.
Samanthe Beck
#77. A future at Wal-Mart may sound a less-than-stellar prospect, but it's a whole lot better than no future at all.
Charles Platt
#78. Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
Henry David Thoreau
#79. As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.
Judy Woodruff
#80. Enjoy most: the prospect of having an impact on the public debate. Irritating liberals is a close second.
Ann Coulter
#81. Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.
Friedrich Schiller
#82. Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.
Joseph Hume
#83. The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#84. Living our lives may not be an exciting prospect to some of us either. Maybe we've been so wrapped up in other people that we've forgotten how to live and enjoy our lives.
Melody Beattie
#85. I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.
Warren Spector
#86. It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him by greater degrees of resemblance.
Joseph Addison
#87. He wanted me. I wanted him. This was a frightening and thrilling prospect, because when I pushed him, he pushed back.
Penny Reid
#88. Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?
C.D. Payne
#89. You can acquire some measure of knowledge from various research techniques, but nothing beats living, breathing, and feeling the same things your prospect (customers) do.
John Jantsch
#90. The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.
Phillip Lopate
#91. 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.
Milton Friedman
#92. Successful selling begins with listening. Your job when you are in front of the prospect is to ask questions and then listen to the answers. Take copious notes about what they tell you; what they say and what they don't say.
Diane Helbig
#93. If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus was nailed to the cross. It is a terrifying prospect.
Milan Kundera
#94. Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.
David Quammen
#95. I'm not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my story to placid, helpless secondary places in the narrative is so goddamn boring that I would rather not write at all.
Scott Lynch
#96. Evie," Lillian interupted impatiently, "men expect to be deceived in these matters. They're happiest that way. If one were straightforward with them the whole prospect of marriage would be too alarming, and none of them would ever do it.
Lisa Kleypas
#97. Possibly the only dismaying aspect of excellence is that it makes living in a world of mediocrity an ongoing prospect of living hell.
Harlan Ellison
#98. If the borderline rage that had fueled me for so long was torn down and taken away, would there be anything left? Or would it take the life, the spirit, right out of me? I was daunted by the prospect of letting go without a clear idea of what would emerge in the old framework's place.
Rachel Reiland
#99. If these slaves had only any future, anything to hope for, to strive for, to live for, any prospect before them, then i should non deplore their lot but nothing, nothing.
Fredrika Bremer
#100. I felt I was good in basketball but I wasn't a blue-chip prospect.
Derrek Lee
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