Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past? — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I didn't throw the paper away. Maybe I should have. Oh, the things you know in retrospect.” — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible. — Michael McFaul Copy Share Image
That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
The question is where are business ethics and morality if one of the parties wants to dishonor a binding contract, just because… — Anil Ambani Copy Share Image
It's sometomes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your self as a friend. This… — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
To be candid, I think, in retrospect, it was a mistake to work at AOL when I did. I think I had… — Brad Garlinghouse Copy Share Image
“Expressions like “the good ole days” implied that life used to be of a higher quality than it is now, but I… — Penelope Douglas Copy Share Image
I had repeatedly accepted inappropriate burdens, stepping in to do what needed to be done. In retrospect, I think I carried them… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“At times of great emotion, good or bad, I find I am gone, somewhere else, watching it happen to me, a different… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
In retrospect, I think maybe Audrey Hepburn was going to talk to me about doing something for UNICEF. I was so overwhelmed… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
It's more in retrospect as I've thought about it over the years and look back at what I wrote, how I wrote… — Dwight Yoakam 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
Technically, my first acting job was in one of my videos for a song called 'Retrospect For Life,' which Lauryn Hill directed… — Common Copy Share Image
The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a… — Winston Churchill 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
The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
The Lord givith and the Lord takith away. I was given a lot of signs from the universe and looking at it… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
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 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
Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life,… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
The first time I ever performed spoken word poetry in front of a big crowd, it totally failed. It ended, people barely… — Phil Kay 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
“But stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The world was perverse, set up in such a way that bad decisions seemed obvious only in retrospect.” — Jennifer Mugrage Copy Share Image
“I was surprised in retrospect how much we'd had in common just by virtue of being in the same family.” — Kate Eberlen Copy Share Image
It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
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