Prospect Quotes
338 quotes by 299 authors
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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…
— Phillip Lopate
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No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which…
— Calvin Coolidge
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This new sport is comparable to no other. It is, in my opinion, one of the most intoxicating forms of sport, and will, I am…
— Unknown Author
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The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.
— James Monroe
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When the going gets tough, the prospect of delegating half your responsibilities to a willing volunteer, either to play a supporting role or take over…
— Mariella Frostrup
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Social justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with adequate water supply, cooking facilities and sanitation. It is…
— Mick Dodson
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You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.
— Adam Braun
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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the…
— Eric Temple Bell
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
— Ansel Adams
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However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child…
— Robert Neelly Bellah
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I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect.
— Emma Bonino
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It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can…
— Jack Finney
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The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and…
— George Leigh Mallory
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I have really enjoyed every minute I have spent in golf- above all, the many wonderful friends I have made. I have loved playing the…
— Ben Hogan
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A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature…
— Augustus William Hare
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Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy prey - and…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Among many who sought to deter me, was one dear old Christian gentleman, whose crowning argument always was, "The cannibals! you will be eaten by…
— John Gibson Paton
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Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.
— William Godwin
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Although the way ahead [for immunology] is full of pitfalls and difficulties, this is indeed an exhilarating prospect. There is no danger of a shortage…
— Cesar Milstein
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I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield…
— Anton Chekhov
Who Wrote These Prospect Quotes
299 authors contributed a total of 338 Prospect Quotes, led by these top contributors: