Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle. — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
“Time has a way of reminding us of its perishable nature in the retrospect of our reflections.” — Gary Westfal Copy Share Image
I didn't think of myself as beautiful, but, in retrospect, I guess I was. — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
“In retrospect this had been my omen, my message, the early snowfall, the birthday present no one else could give me.” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development. — Will Self Copy Share Image
I try not to go back in retrospect and say oh, I shouldn't have done this or shouldn't have done that. You… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen. — Wayne Newton Copy Share Image
In retrospect, I think a lot of '80s fashion shoots are the ones that look the most modern. The fitness-based ones that… — Christy Turlington Copy Share Image
In retrospect, I can see that President Brezhnev was quite proud of the limited agreement that he had concluded in Vladivostok; and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“...the passage of time, which transformed the volatile present into that finished, unalterable painting called the past, a canvas man always executed… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
In retrospect, I went to Jane Fonda for literally everything. During Mermaids, we were staying in the same building, so she was… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
Like, in retrospect, this whole Mini-Album is about itself, and the process of letting go of the fear of what people will… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices.… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
“But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“...[His] past had now risen, only the pleasures of it seeming to have lost their quality. Night and day, without interruption save… — George Eliot Middlemarch Copy Share Image
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible. — Michael McFaul Copy Share Image
“I didn't throw the paper away. Maybe I should have. Oh, the things you know in retrospect.” — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past? — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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