Prospect Quotes

338 Prospect quotes by 299 unique authors

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,… — Jane Austen
Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I… — Dean Koontz
The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary… — Margaret Atwood
Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and… — Gail Carriger
Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable? — C.D. Payne
Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly… — Charlotte Bronte
I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering… — Craig Ferguson
Well I'm not dancing," Will said through gritted teeth. "I don't know how." Oh yes you are," Alyss told him. "Let's hope you're a fast… — John Flanagan
Iâ€™m getting all warm and fuzzy inside at the prospect of these demon things roaming the street, preying on us. (Tate) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour. — Henry David Thoreau
Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and… — Christopher Hitchens
The difference between you and her (whom I to you did once prefer) Is clear enough to settle: She like a diamond shone, but you… — Robert Graves
After the bitching I'd done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of going to Sin… — Richelle Mead
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll… — Frederick Buechner
We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy.… — John Adams
The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience: calm acceptance blossoms… — Kate Morton
But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote… — David Foster Wallace
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,… — Terry Pratchett
We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know… — Gary Shteyngart
Most dreams die a slow death. They're conceived in a moment of passion, with the prospect of endless possibility, but often languish and are not… — Dean Karnazes

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