“The world was perverse, set up in such a way that bad decisions seemed obvious only in retrospect.” — Jennifer Mugrage Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners. — Caroline Pratt Copy Share Image
History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not. — Jeanne C. Stein Copy Share Image
Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect. — John Green 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
History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and… — David Byrne 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
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
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
Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they… — Carl Sagan 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
It's amazing to me in retrospect that I wrote as much as I did with full-time jobs. Each city gave me a… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager I felt like we were always being stereotyped as being really intense and dramatic and passionate and… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
His passion was the Galaxy. In retrospect, it's fitting that we won a championship for him this last year because I think… — Steve Sampson 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
“In any case, while it is all very well to talk of 'turning points', one can surely only recognise such moments in… — Kazuo Ishiguro 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
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
It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because at the time it feels entirely natural, as if all the rest of your… — Margaret George 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
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 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
Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
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