Maybe a deal was possible earlier. And maybe, in retrospect, looking back, you could say this was a moment you could have… — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr Copy Share Image
“Our lives can only be interpreted in retrospect, yet must be lived from day to day, blindly. What folly, the human condition!” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm. — Jeff Sessions 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
People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along. — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will… — Jonathan Carroll 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
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
Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced… — Thomas Sowell 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
It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark… — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
“A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been… — John Williams Copy Share Image
The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a… — Kat Edmonson Copy Share Image
“The act of vividly recalling a patch of the past is something that I seem to have been performing with the utmost… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
As a child I was attracted to Tarzan and everything that had to do with jungles. It seemed to me -- and… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Republicans are already on seriously thin ice, having presided over an era of unprecedented spending and consistently failing to articulate conservative principles… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
So my first experience was that I had to do a reboot of my expectations. Like fantastic, great, he's young and charismatic… — Laura Poitras 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 enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly… — Erez Lieberman Aiden Copy Share Image
So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother, so I wouldn't be her. But the price… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In retrospect, golf for me was an apparent attempt to emulate the person I looked up to more than anyone: my father.… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
Everything that happens to us can be looked at as a gift. Although it's quite difficult when you're in the middle of… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
“What a twisted, twisted place, I think in retrospect… and yet when it was all happening back then, and for many days… — Mynah K Copy Share Image
Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Success comes from having a fulfilling experience and being inside the moment of that experience. Success does not come in retrospect or… — Tommy Tune Copy Share Image
In retrospect, I think that I've been given quite a few scripts over the years that had dark elements to them but… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
It hasn't always easy to combine these two competing ambitions and, in retrospect, it's a shame no one steered me towards science… — Suw Charman-Anderson Copy Share Image
Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist… — Howard Fineman Copy Share Image
Evolutionary theory tends to explain quite well in retrospect how various species emerged. It's not very good on prediction. Nevertheless, one cannot… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
I was stuck in the feeling that one did not--was not justified in being alive unless one was fulfilling other people's dreams,… — John Lennon 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
Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have… — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
Our Navy was very largely sunk. And we were at war in no time at all. I share, in retrospect, the distress… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I tried four times to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama before I got accepted. I started when I… — Catherine Tate Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
I would wipe my tears, and walk out of the stall and the bathroom, and march myself back into that courtroom because… — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
![“Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.” quote by Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df6/thomas-sowell-247_absence_freedom-refer-s-to-a-social-relationship_3001827.jpg)
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![“I would wipe my tears, and walk out of the stall and the bathroom, and march myself back into that courtroom because the only way that I could deal with Keith's [ Griffin] murder was to feel like I was doing something about it. In retrospect, what did I do? I know that I put a lot of bad guys in…” quote by Nancy Grace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/799/nancy-grace-9244_bad-guy_i-would-wipe-my-tears-and-walk-out-of-th_562311.jpg)