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I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music. -- Abbey Lee Kershaw
Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo. -- Woody Allen
Spring and fall in New York are the best seasons here to get out and about. I like the little park in Dumbo between the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridge. I like Prospect Park. -- Paul Dano
I have been given permission to announce that I and others from All My Children have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought AMC, with the intention to move it online. -- Cameron Mathison
Two Seasons, it is said, exist- The Summer of the Just, And this of Ours, diversified With Prospect, and with Frost- May not our Second with its First So infinite compare That We but recollect the one The other to prefer? -- Emily Dickinson
The prospect of going home is very appealing. -- David Ginola
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. -- Ambrose Bierce
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect. -- W. Clement Stone
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. -- James Madison
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. -- Thomas Jefferson
No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect. -- Edward Teller
From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind. -- Nikola Tesla
Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds. -- John McGraw
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
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. -- Brian Eno
The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century. -- Carlos Fuentes
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 never leaving home. -- Robert Neelly Bellah
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. -- J. B. Priestley
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the system, or to settle into depressed complacency. -- Ben Shapiro
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything. -- Willie Dixon
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome. -- Huston Smith
It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking. -- Shawn Johnson
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
The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about. -- Clint Eastwood
The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine. -- Joyce Carol Oates
We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs. -- Zig Ziglar
Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick. -- Jeremy Paxton
The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable. -- Raymond Moody
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe. -- Irving Penn
I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book. -- Ian Fleming
He's the best prospect I've ever seen. -- Branch Rickey
The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear. -- Christopher Moore
prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden. -- Ambrose Bierce
Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged. -- Mark Twain
A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect? -- David Baldacci
There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste. -- P. G. Wodehouse
If you don't believe in what you're selling, neither will your prospect. -- Frank Bettger
Peace is not an easy prospect--it requires greater bravery than does conflict. -- Ozzie Zehner
I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect. -- Emma Bonino
There is no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end. -- James Hutton
Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success. -- Henry David Thoreau
Is the prospect of magic any more outrageous than a dragon train? -- Victor Kloss
To live for oneself is a terrifying prospect; there is comfort in martyrdomp 364 -- Melanie Benjamin
Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on. -- Don Cooper
Never criticize, condemn or complain in a conversation with a customer or prospect. -- Brian Tracy
I felt I was good in basketball but I wasn't a blue-chip prospect. -- Derrek Lee
A bride is a woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her -- Ambrose Bierce
The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
I'm really excited about the prospect of a woman president of the United States. -- Barack Obama
Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking. -- Brian Tracy
I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story. -- Lionel Shriver
Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect. -- Gareth Gates
Great is the height I just scale, but the prospect of glory gives me strength. -- Propertius
Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes. -- Ian Mcewan
Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect. -- Al Ries
I am absolutely delighted at the prospect of joining a world famous club like Inter. -- Robbie Keane
The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder. -- Ansel Adams
There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies. -- Leon Kass
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Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable? -- C.D. Payne
Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet. -- Jeremy Rifkin
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail. -- Jimmy Carter
If you don't aim for the best prospects, you're likely to do business with any prospect. -- Todd Duncan
winter is past, and we have a prospect of spring that is superior to spring itself. -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good. -- John Dryden
The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England. -- Samuel Johnson
I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect. -- Kathe Kollwitz
Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise. -- Alexander Pope
The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting. -- J. K. Rowling
The prospect of getting rich is highly motivating, and few people get rich without taking a gamble. -- Peter L. Bernstein
Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also monitor construction in progress. -- Peter Diamandis
The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
Listening is the hard part. Listening is the important part. The hot button is in the prospect's response. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination. -- George Jackson
Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination -- George Jackson
Enjoy most: the prospect of having an impact on the public debate. Irritating liberals is a close second. -- Ann Coulter
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it. -- Moliere
Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour. -- Henry David Thoreau
Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand. -- R. S. Thomas
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. -- John Locke
If you can't be happy at the prospect of lunch, you are unlikely to be happy about anything -- Robert Johnson
True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it. -- David Richo
You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it. -- Adam Braun
In the journey of life, in the battle of destiny, everyone is a potential suspect and prospect as well -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides. -- William Godwin
The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible. -- Tessa Jowell
Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death. -- Gavin de Becker
War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals? -- David Gemmell
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Most salespeople are half prepared. They know everything about their company and their product. They know nothing about their prospect. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish. -- Charles Simmons
Positioning is not what you do to a product. Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect. -- Al Ries
Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that. -- Michael Howard
"I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing. -- Billy Graham
Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect. -- Cassandra Clare
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? -- Henry David Thoreau
I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely. -- Cate Blanchett
Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty. -- Tim Ferriss
Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will. -- Matt Ridley
Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head. -- Leon Panetta
The prospect of being immortal doesn't excite me, but the prospect of being a materialistic idol for four years does appeal. -- Marc Bolan
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
you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect. -- Maria Edgeworth
The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end. -- James Hutton
I'm getting all warm and fuzzy inside at the prospect of these demon things roaming the street, preying on us. (Tate) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The prospect of being able to work on a Kaufman film with him directing was just too good to be true. -- Elijah Wood
Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect's mind. -- Zig Ziglar
I feel like when I go on stage I feel so excited at the prospect that there will be a true connection. -- Jenny Slate
And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue. -- Nora Roberts
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it. -- Arthur Koestler
Shinya Yamanaka's work has involved mice and human cells, and advances the prospect of providing new cells or body parts for patients. -- John Gurdon
What drives me is the prospect of turning an obstacle into a business opportunity, and then growing that into something lasting and rewarding. -- Ryan Holmes
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one. -- Sir Fulke Greville
Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then? -- J. G. Ballard
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
I hope this will find you...enjoying the commencement of a new year with every prospect that can make it a happy one. -- James Madison
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

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