Prospect Quotes

338 quotes by 307 authors

Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight… — Lord Kelvin
The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more… — Joseph Priestley
Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing. — Sigmund Freud
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we… — Samuel Johnson
The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a… — Joseph Sobran
Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and worthy the attention of the… — Joseph Black
Some Western politicians are already threatening us with not just sanctions, but also the prospect of increasingly serious problems on the domestic front. I would… — Vladimir Putin
To leave this life, to me, is a sweet prospect. When you read this I will be quite dead and no answer will be possible.… — David Ferrie
The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet. — Jeremy Rifkin
It's so easy to wish that we'd made an effort in the past, so that we'd happily be enjoying the benefit now, but when now… — Gretchen Rubin
Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and… — Ban Ki-moon
To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant… — Byron White
The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England. — Samuel Johnson
Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second coming of Christ,… — Immanuel Wallerstein
My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun… — Alex Kozinski
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil.… — Charles Horton Cooley
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
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity:… — Thomas Paine
A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for… — James Madison

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