#prospect

And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either. We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly: ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#inspirational #limitations #over-coming-odds #prospects-on-life #dreams

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#airline #belief #cash #comforting #control

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

#child #children #frightening #home #however

I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf. ↗

— Julie Walters

#asked #behalf #campaign #doing #film

Time Warner has been managed for the short term. This has damaged the company's fundamental competitive position and its prospects for growth. This approach has cost shareholders a staggering $40 billion. ↗

— Bruce Wasserstein

#been #billion #company #competitive #cost

I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#beneficiaries #cancer #care #cure #ensure

The prospect of going home is very appealing. ↗

— David Ginola

#appealing #going #going home #prospect #very

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#fruition #happy #hours #more #pass

What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class? ↗

— Herman Gorter

#any #class #does #europe #fact

I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all. ↗

— John Hawkes

#attractive #away #before #disappear #fame