Prospect Quotes

338 Prospect quotes by 299 unique authors

Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me… — Junot Diaz
The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes… — Clint Eastwood
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. — Brian Eno
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,… — Joseph Hume
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. — Thomas Jefferson
It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect… — Shawn Johnson
I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial… — Jaron Lanier
Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would… — Daniel Day-Lewis
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. — John Locke
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. — James Madison
In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a career - writing… — Hilary Mantel
Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds. — John McGraw
The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence. — Benjamin Netanyahu
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… — Bill O'Reilly
The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our… — Joyce Carol Oates
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head. — Leon Panetta
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our… — Jean Paul
As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed… — Lucy Powell
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting… — J. B. Priestley

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