A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future.… — Lyman Abbott 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
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'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
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
Each person’s life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything… — Suketu Mehta 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
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
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
Again there are so many records which contain fond memories and music and songs of which I have to say I am… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible. — Michael McFaul Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect. — Arthur Koestler 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
The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held… — William Robertson Nicoll Copy Share Image
You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success. — Guillermo del Toro 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
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
“The act of vividly recalling a patch of the past is something that I seem to have been performing with the utmost… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much,… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
A part of that [timewrap] for me was growing up in a culture that violence had always been a part of. It… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I would wipe my tears, and walk out of the stall and the bathroom, and march myself back into that courtroom because… — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image