The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . . — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the most unnerving aspect of being openly gay was that it turned out to be as disappointingly normal as being… — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them. — David Sze Copy Share Image
Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
“It would in retrospect appear to be a stop on a narrative path that was inevitable, but this is only because most… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In retrospect I wrote things about my life and my family's existence, I realized that it was a frighteningly harsh way to… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I'll not deny I am impressed by your mastery of six warrens, Quick Ben. In retrospect, you should have held back on… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
When seen in retrospect, fashions seem to express their era. Although it is more difficult to draw conclusions from contemporary clothes, the… — James Laver Copy Share Image
The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. . .… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
My ability to notice that kind of thing, the sanctity of the bubble that you create, has not been so good in… — Andy Richter Copy Share Image
You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“Naturally—and why should I not admit this—I have occasionally wondered to myself how things might have turned out in the long run…… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
He wanted us to play whatever we played in the most characteristic and appropriate style. Even it was the theme from 'The… — Manny Laureano Copy Share Image
I think there's something about going on a hike and looking at a city view or looking at the ocean that brings… — Lili Reinhart Copy Share Image
When I first heard about Y Combinator, it was one of those ideas that just seemed forehead-slappingly obvious. Good ideas often do,… — Mark Fletcher Copy Share Image
The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm… — Ted Olson Copy Share Image
The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
In retrospect, I look back, and I am so glad that we didn't have our kids when we wanted to have them.… — Karen Pence Copy Share Image
Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
You never know in retrospect whether you did or didn't do exactly the right thing, stay-at-home mothers, gone-away mothers, all ofus worry… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.' — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
“I have written in my life many critical poems, but viewed in retrospect, they were merely a human harmless reflection, and not… — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time,… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Maybe a deal was possible earlier. And maybe, in retrospect, looking back, you could say this was a moment you could have… — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr Copy Share Image
“Our lives can only be interpreted in retrospect, yet must be lived from day to day, blindly. What folly, the human condition!” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along. — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
“I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork.… — Virginia Euwer Wolff Copy Share Image
In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm. — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
