Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect. — John Green Copy Share Image
In retrospect it always seems to work out that you can look back on something that was a disaster and find some… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that McDonald's gift certificates caused the obesity epidemic, but in retrospect, the timing is kind of suspicious. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“The boring parts don't last forever. In retrospect, they aren't even boring.” — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
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
It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners. — Caroline Pratt Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too… — Daniel J. Evans Copy Share Image
I've had a number of near misses during my travels that in retrospect seem of greater concern than they did at the… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
I reflected a lot, I thought a lot on my 50th birthday. It has been one of the most important birthdays in… — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering… — Andreas Gursky Copy Share Image
In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
The importance of selecting music and sequencing songs - making one song merge into another song. In retrospect, those are the most… — Hans-Peter Lindstrøm Copy Share Image
Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently?… — Jeffrey Skilling Copy Share Image
Working at the scene of the action, I have adopted Robert Capa's saying: 'If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close… — Micha Bar-Am Copy Share Image
It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation.… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable.… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect, I was… — David Salle Copy Share Image
It was in D.C., and I couldn't believe how they were just three guys, but they sounded like six guys. It was… — Rich Fulcher Copy Share Image
You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. My gift, or fatal flaw, is for nostalgia. I have… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, as we read, two little girls slept as if couched on zephyrs on the south side of the parlor floor, in… — Mary Cantwell Copy Share Image
It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t… — Donna Tartt 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
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
“Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the… — Jay Rayner Copy Share Image
“Recounting the experience of individuals brings home, as nothing else can, the sheer complexity of the choices they had to make, and… — Richard J. Evans 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
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