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I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.
— Kingsley Amis
Love is in prospect or retrospect, the present is ecstasy.
— Nicholas Mosley
There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
— Alain De Botton
Now we can see a new world coming into view, a world where there is a very real prospect of a New World Order.
— George H. W. Bush
I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.
— Lionel Shriver
I feel like when I go on stage I feel so excited at the prospect that there will be a true connection.
— Jenny Slate
In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.
— Barton Gellman
My plans were put aside by the prospect of her return. Then she returned, to say that she had other plans.
— Dan Adams
The prospect of refreshment at the charges of another is an opportunity never to be neglected by men of clear commercial judgment.
— Hilaire Belloc
I'm in a win-win playoff. Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing.
— Billy Graham
It seemed that we were condemned to be who we were, which was not a particularly good prospect.
— Thomas Buergenthal
If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.
— Ron Fournier
Most of the states of Europe had no prospect of social transformation, and thus little ability to rival or counter the Nazis and the Soviets.
— Timothy Snyder
Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
The prospect of death in autumn, she said, was irrelevant next to its happy recognition of its participation in the life of the tree itself.
— David Guterson
The prospect of beginning a third- act career scared me almost as much as it attracted me.
— Tony Danza
After all, education is a grab for a better future, no matter how impossible the prospect may seem at the time.
— Terry Hayes
I know, win or lose, I enjoyed the prospect of giving it my all.
— Arnold Palmer
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 City.
— Richelle Mead
I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement.
— Thomas Jefferson
Possibly the only dismaying aspect of excellence is that it makes living in a world of mediocrity an ongoing prospect of living hell.
— Harlan Ellison
It was as though the Saposcats drew the strength to live from the prospect of their impotence.
— Samuel Beckett
The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect.
— Henry David Thoreau
May the Father judge him justly.Now, there's an awful prospect. — George R R Martin
I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
— Ansel Adams
Afraid of flying?" the man next to her asked, sounding displeased by the prospect. "No, just crashing and burning.
— Denise Grover Swank
I was having nightmares because I'd discovered monsters that were real. Disease and the prospect of death were far scarier than any boogeyman.
— Joelle Charbonneau
Telling the truth when the truth matters most is almost always a frightening prospect.
— Michael Chabon
Your expression dog paddles the entire meeting but your daydream
ricochets between the prospect of quitting
and painting your room. — Lori Lamothe
Death was far less terrible than the living prospect that was before us
— Solomon Northup
To panic at the prospect of being involved in what your dream seem to indicate is normal
— Sunday Adelaja
Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes;And when in act they cease, in prospect rise. — Alexander Pope
A great many contemporary artists from hugely diverse backgrounds are currently approaching the prospect of cultural mixing ...
— Lucy R. Lippard
Boredom is a powerful reason, and the prospect of fun is a powerful draw - especially when you are young.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
Ask open ended questions. Pull out the pain and the hurt your prospect is experiencing.
— Timi Nadela
I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.
— George Steiner
Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.
— Patrick O'Brian
Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.
— Joseph Addison
I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson President. He is the most unfit man I know for such a place.
— Thomas Jefferson
the best way to get a prospect to focus on you and your product is to spend most of your time focusing on the prospect and her problem.
— Marie Maguire
But there was something so empty about the prospect of a Christmas Day without opening presents
— Rachel Cohn
You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.
— Adam Braun
If you can't be happy at the prospect of lunch, you are unlikely to be happy about anything
— Robert Johnson
The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.
— James Hutton
From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
— Nikola Tesla
No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
— Edward Teller
How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification.
— Marcel Proust
The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
— Josh Billings
You're Beau Wyndham! Well, I'll be damned!''The prospect,' said Sir Richard, bored, 'leaves me unmoved — Georgette Heyer
The acquisition of knowledge has become too intimidating a prospect for them, so they shun it in favour of faith.
— Mark Hodder
The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear.
— Christopher Moore
The better part of friendship might be holding one's tongue over the prospect of self-made wreckage.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo.
— Woody Allen
The Thane of Cawdor lives,A prosperous gentleman; and to be King
Stands not within the prospect of belief,
No more than to be Cawdor. — William Shakespeare
The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible.
— Tessa Jowell
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
— John Locke
What happened when there was no prospect of anything beyond this generation? What happened when...
— Anne Corlett
The prospect of going home is very appealing.
— David Ginola
Don't play semantic games with the prospect. Advertising is not a debate. It's a seduction.
— Al Ries
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
— Henry David Thoreau
It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good;
— Samuel Johnson
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
— Arthur Koestler
Being alone is a frame of mind that becomes comfortable and relatively stress free so even the prospect of socializing can seem like too much effort.
— Peter W. Murphy
You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.
— John Henry Newman
Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish.
— Charles Simmons
Selling is about identifying the needs of your prospect. Have a conversation. Solve the problem.
— Timi Nadela
War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals?
— David Gemmell
The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead in a prospect of inconjecturable magic
— Patrick Leigh Fermor
If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.
— Mitch Albom
Indeed, it occasionally seems as if the book has attempted to inoculate itself against the prospect of actually being read.
— Roger Moorhouse
Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?
— C.D. Payne
And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue.
— Nora Roberts
