Retrospect Quotes

134 Retrospect quotes by 119 unique authors

So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That’s… — Chuck Palahniuk
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. My gift, or fatal flaw, is for nostalgia. I have sometimes been accused… — Tana French
I'll not deny I am impressed by your mastery of six warrens, Quick Ben. In retrospect, you should have held back on at least half… — Steven Erikson
Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance. — Kate Atkinson
The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what… — Walt Whitman
So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of… — Douglas MacArthur
Meanwhile, as we read, two little girls slept as if couched on zephyrs on the south side of the parlor floor, in a room that… — Mary Cantwell
I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that… — Erez Lieberman Aiden
My main objective with every album is to capture a moment in time, which usually makes the whole process very relaxing. I only discover in… — Alanis Morissette
The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect… — Joan Didion
The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect -… — Timothy Noah
Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at… — Robert Dallek
In retrospect, the most unnerving aspect of being openly gay was that it turned out to be as disappointingly normal as being straight. — Lance Loud
The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them. — David Sze
I tried four times to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama before I got accepted. I started when I was 17, which… — Catherine Tate
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. — Robert Louis Stevenson
In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music. — David Baker
Of course, we wrote the songs accordingly and performed and recorded them that way. At that time, we really thought it was right, but you… — Mark McGrath
The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation… — John Hersey
In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm. — Jeff Sessions
My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so… — Kim Edwards
We bet the company on Windows and we deserve to benefit. It was a risk that's paid off immensely. In retrospect, committing to the graphics… — Bill Gates
In retrospect, it is evident that the emphasis on 'man as enemy' deflected attention away from focus on improving relationships between women and men, ways… — Author M
The people treat each other in society is cruel but in retrospect history shows the cynicism is evident in all. — Jeremy Limn

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