As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but…

One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The…

— Jerry Saltz

While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

— Oliver Goldsmith

You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects…

— Plato

Ahead now, I think you'll see the big nations shrink back into their own corners of the world. I'm not saying we'll see no…

— James Howard Kunstler

One of the things I think is very likely is that with the prospects of robust fiscal stimulus in response to voters mad as…

— Gary Shilling

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological…

— Paul Berg

The sluggish economy is creating a situation where the young people in Japan cannot cherish their desires or have prospects for their future. Also,…

— Shinzo Abe

I am very optimistic about the long run prospects for democracy in China. Chinese society is being dramatically and rapidly transformed. And there’s rising…

— Larry Diamond

I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were…

— Katherine Boo

You – help - people. You are an expert in your field, who genuinely helps other human beings. Take pride in that, stop hawking…

— Chris Murray

“Love your enemies, they are prospects.”

— Toba Beta

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

— Daniel Kahneman

I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and…

— Sean Connery

There is another domain that we consider relevant and having good prospects - marine biology. For many years this region [Russian Far East] has…

— Vladimir Putin