Retrospect Quotes

134 Retrospect quotes by 119 unique authors

Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without… — Henry Fuseli
I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community… — Daniel J. Evans
Life is not only meant to be appreciated in retrospect ... There is something each day to embrace and cherish. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb down my middle-class… — Kim Gordon
In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical sequence, but a… — Eleanor Robson Belmont
Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this… — Henry Adams
People always understand everything in retrospect. — Agnes Denes
Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time. — Don Henley
September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An Innuendo sear That… — Emily Dickinson
I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect, I was trying to find… — David Salle
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the… — Malcolm Muggeridge
When I first heard about Y Combinator, it was one of those ideas that just seemed forehead-slappingly obvious. Good ideas often do, in retrospect. — Mark Fletcher
I was stuck in the feeling that one did not--was not justified in being alive unless one was fulfilling other people's dreams, whether they were… — John Lennon
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. — Robert Frost
I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the… — Junot Diaz
If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should… — Paul Farmer
Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended… — Christopher Hitchens
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off… — Bob Hope
Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and… — Madeleine M. Kunin
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. — Robert Louis Stevenson
No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect. — Edward Teller
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. — Paul Theroux
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. — Anais Nin
I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally. — Marilynne Robinson

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