Retrospect Quotes

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

— Gloria Steinem

People always understand everything in retrospect.

— Agnes Denes

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

“No retrospect will take us to the true beginning”

— George Eliot

Perspective will come in retrospect.

— Melody Beattie

I really tend to write in retrospect.

— Randy Houser

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.

— Steve Carlton

Often a retrospect delights the mind.

— Dante Alighieri

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

— Sophocles

There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect.

— Haruki Murakami

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

— Ellis Peters

“I was surprised in retrospect how much we'd had in common just by virtue of being in the same family.”

— Kate Eberlen

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

— Paul Kingsnorth

“Love is in prospect or retrospect, the present is ecstasy.”

— Nicholas Mosley

“But stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.”

— Stephen King

The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the…

— Walt Whitman

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

Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm…

— Ted Olson

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

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the…

— George Eliot

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

Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure…

— Evelyn Underhill

Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less…

— Christopher Rice

In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be…

— Richard Holbrooke

To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to…

— Jerry Fodor

“Despite his first, the study of English literature seemed in retrospect an absorbing parlor game, and reading books and having opinions about…

— Ian McEwan

The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. . .…

— Charles Mackay

I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place…

— Suzanne Collins

My ability to notice that kind of thing, the sanctity of the bubble that you create, has not been so good in…

— Andy Richter

In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point…

— Tony Blair

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

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

When you have committed an action that you cannot bear to think about, that causes you to writhe in retrospect, do not…

— Mary McCarthy

The first time I ever performed spoken word poetry in front of a big crowd, it totally failed. It ended, people barely…

— Phil Kay

Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life,…

— Phillip Lopate

Meanwhile, as we read, two little girls slept as if couched on zephyrs on the south side of the parlor floor, in…

— Mary Cantwell

The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The Lord givith and the Lord takith away. I was given a lot of signs from the universe and looking at it…

— Ryan Montgomery

The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect…

— Johannes Grenzfurthner