#pros

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#facts #optimism #pessimism #prospects #time

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#finally #formal #get #poetry #prose

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ↗

— Samuel McChord Crothers

#capital #every #gets #keeps #letter

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. ↗

— Mario Cuomo

#govern #poetry #prose #you

Evil prospers when good men do nothing. ↗

— John Philpot Curran

#good #good men #men #nothing #prospers

The Democratic Party has gotten narrower and it's gotten smaller and it's fundamentally wrong on all the key questions involving the economic future of this country and our hopes of prosperity. And many Americans are beginning to realize that. ↗

— Artur Davis

#country #democratic #democratic party #economic #economic future

The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#american people #cannot #know #our #people

That night she looked like the most beautiful girl I’d seen outside a sticky nudie magazine. She had a glow about her, like a pink neon shop sign on the outskirts of Orafouraville that says “Rose is For Sale.” Prostitution or a grammatically incorrect flower shop, I’d like to enter both right about now. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#prostitution #beauty

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#certain #deal #great #great deal #hand

Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#carefully #cons #could #debated #draw