One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God's design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him,… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
To me, in retrospect, it was amazing that 'Seinfeld' was a show that had such mass appeal. At first it was a… — Bill Lawrence 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
In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be… — Richard Holbrooke 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
“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
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
To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
I remember my mom threatening me, half-serious: 'You know what? I should take you to Pittsburgh and put you in dance lessons… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed. — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck… — Robert James Waller 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
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
The reader can test his own psychology by asking himself whether he would consider, in retrospect, the selling at 156 in 1925… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
