#prospect

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#accepted #any #around #astonished #basically

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. ↗

— James Madison

#enterprise #every #expanded #mind #noble

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect. ↗

— Edward Teller

#prospect #retrospect #right #simple #will

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

#around #away #coming #concealed #distant

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 Paxman

#because #been #beyond #characteristic #economic

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#bodily #body #decay #gloomy #human

I didn't have any great job prospects. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#great #great job #i #job #prospects

Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#arafat #attention #fact #harsh #how

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#look #our #prospects #relations #russia

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#contingent #prospect #sales #salesman #upon