Quotes of: Prospective Keyword

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 into the secrets of nature.

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Language spread its warm, absurd rays over all my adolescent thoughts, and I felt the way we all long to feel: moody, lonely, lovesick and explosive with the prospects of tomorrow.

Cosmo

Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.

The Dream of Scipio

Let your customers and prospects recommend you to each other and let you competition wish they were you. That is our mission.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.

The Federalist Papers

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Being fed, and having a soft bed, and other people being in charge, seemed the most wonderful prospect in the world at that moment.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

One Man's Dream Is Another Man's Nightmare...It's All About Your Prospective People!

Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying

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 enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Jean Paul

The prospective buyer said, “Name your price.” So I replied, “OK, how about Ralph Isaac Papov?

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

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.

Spirit Bound

Active prospecting let's people know that they matter; that you've sought them out.

Lemonade Stand Selling: Accelerate Your Small Business Growth

Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything - even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes.

Mary Bennet

While I’m no Major League Baseball prospect, I have thrown a few no-hitters in my day. And not only were there no hitters, there was also nobody there to catch.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus was nailed to the cross. It is a terrifying prospect.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

and it contained within it the prospect of living and the hope of dying, of endings and beginnings, of love and loss and peace and rage, all wrapped up in two whispered syllables.

The Wolf in Winter

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 more of an attractive prospect.

Soulless

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

Sigmund Freud

This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent to trading in your trusty pan for a diesel-powered sluice box.

Seth Shostak

In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats.

Thomas E. Mann

Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.

Thomas Sowell