Retrospective Quotes

28 quotes by 25 authors

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels… — Russell Brand
Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as fascinating as it now seems;… — Stephen Burt
The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective — Tracey Emin
Retrospective analysis is not a useful guide to current problems. — David Ignatius
Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment of fact assembly… — Michel-Rolph Trouillot
As an historical novelist â€“ there are few jobs more retrospective. — Sara Sheridan
The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or… — Robert Peel
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. — Malcolm Muggeridge
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has… — Richard Le Gallienne
Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i.e. the… — Jean Baudrillard
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without… — Alan Lightman
The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. — George Crumb
I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence… — Ansel Adams
I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the… — Marianne Faithfull
I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the… — Hugh Laurie
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness. — Robert Menzies
Love and death are very similar. They're the times in your life when you most want to believe in magic, when you yearn for some… — Michael Marshall Smith

Who Wrote These Retrospective Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 28 Retrospective Quotes as follows: