All Quotes

The prospect of being immortal doesn't excite me, but the prospect of being a materialistic idol for four years does appeal.
‐‐ Marc Bolan

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 prospect of going home is very appealing.
‐‐ David Ginola

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 prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
‐‐ Brendan Behan

The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as the poor waterlogged, gassy corpse called 'Evan Almighty' proved when it floated ashore recently. So there's a temptation to think too highly of Robin Williams's uneven but occasionally funny 'License to Wed.'
‐‐ Stephen Hunter

The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.
‐‐ Thomas Francis Meagher

The prosperity of the United States and the prosperity of the Hispanic community, as the fastest-growing community, are one and the same. The destinies are one and the same.
‐‐ Julian Castro

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
‐‐ Quintilian

The prostheses do not run the race on their own: there is an athlete who does the work, and the prosthetics do not make a significant difference to the time.
‐‐ Alan Oliveira

The prosthetics were interesting because the artist was so good that they could just put a Hitchcock mask on me, but you don't want to do that. You're an actor playing Hitchcock, so it's about how much of that you're going to do.
‐‐ Toby Jones

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
‐‐ Alan Kay

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.
‐‐ Nate Silver

The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest.
‐‐ Bill Gates

The protests against Harry Potter follow a tradition that has been growing since the early 1980s and often leaves school principals trembling with fear that is then passed down to teachers and librarians.
‐‐ Judy Blume

The protocol things, the officialdom, are part of my work. But it doesn't take more than 20 percent of my time. The majority of my time I spend on issues that I care about.
‐‐ Queen Rania of Jordan

The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

The proud intellectual seeks knowledge about God, but he never knows God, because he cannot accept the mysteries that he is unable to fully comprehend.
‐‐ Mother Angelica

The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
‐‐ Mignon McLaughlin

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
‐‐ Fulton J. Sheen

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.
‐‐ Thomas Campbell

The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is not disarming them. The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is to arrest, prosecute, convict and jail criminal offenders, especially armed career criminals illegally using guns. This is the way to reduce gun violence.
‐‐ Jeff Sessions

The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
‐‐ Thomas Szasz

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
‐‐ Lafcadio Hearn

The... provisional government unwaveringly believes that it can solve all the present problems together with the broad masses of Ethiopia. However, we can do this only if all the people come out in unison to implement our planned undertakings.
‐‐ Meles Zenawi

The provisions contained in this plan will ensure that the United States has the infrastructure necessary to meet energy needs through future decades, easing dependence on unpredictable foreign oil markets, and creating thousands of new jobs for American workers.
‐‐ Ron Lewis

The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.
‐‐ Jeremy Brett

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
‐‐ Frank Herbert

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
‐‐ Henry Fielding

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.
‐‐ Dee Hock

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
‐‐ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
‐‐ Johann Kaspar Lavater

The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.
‐‐ Kenneth Scott Latourette

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.
‐‐ Stanislav Grof

The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about it was that I truly belonged there.
‐‐ Steve-O

The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.
‐‐ Dario Argento

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
‐‐ Erich Fromm

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
‐‐ Sigmund Freud

The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.
‐‐ Erik Erikson

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
‐‐ Georg Simmel

The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
‐‐ Barbara Ehrenreich

The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.
‐‐ John Desmond Bernal

The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.
‐‐ Edward Sapir

The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings.
‐‐ John Blair

The psychology of fashion is interesting because we're selling people something they don't really need. We're just selling them something that makes them feel good. Besides, there is nothing really new in fashion. Everything worth doing has been done before.
‐‐ Leon Max

The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
‐‐ Karen Horney