I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Looking back in retrospect, there were some great moments working with some great people, ... I don't know quite how to put… — Dave Mason 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
I'm not saying that McDonald's gift certificates caused the obesity epidemic, but in retrospect, the timing is kind of suspicious. — Jim Gaffigan 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
In retrospect it always seems to work out that you can look back on something that was a disaster and find some… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
“In retrospect I can only call it a party in passing. If I can be completely frank, I’ve had crazier bowel movements.” — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently?… — Jeffrey Skilling Copy Share Image
I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect, I was… — David Salle Copy Share Image
“...the passage of time, which transformed the volatile present into that finished, unalterable painting called the past, a canvas man always executed… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
“Rendering moral judgements in retrospect can be hazardous. It is unfair to judge the past by the standards of the present. Yet… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
In retrospect, I can see that President Brezhnev was quite proud of the limited agreement that he had concluded in Vladivostok; and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Working at the scene of the action, I have adopted Robert Capa's saying: 'If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close… — Micha Bar-Am Copy Share Image
In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it… — Anna Quindlen 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
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
And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering… — Andreas Gursky Copy Share Image
I reflected a lot, I thought a lot on my 50th birthday. It has been one of the most important birthdays in… — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
“When you can see your life in retrospect, the romanticism of how good things once were gives way to the reality that… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
The importance of selecting music and sequencing songs - making one song merge into another song. In retrospect, those are the most… — Hans-Peter Lindstrøm 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
You’re the one who unleashed him. (Savitar) Yeah, well, let’s move on from the blame game. I was having suicidal thoughts and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon 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
The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
...With 9:36 left in the game, in retrospect we might have gone for two because we ended up with three more plays… — Dennis Franchione Copy Share Image
“As Freud once said, “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” — Mark Manson 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
“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
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
In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended. — Gottfried Helnwein 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
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
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
I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes,… — Boz Scaggs Copy Share Image
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