Arsenal Quote by Erik Larson

There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living…

— David Grann

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.

— Roland Gift

NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from…

— Noam Chomsky

I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.

— Lucy Walker

I knew from an online search that the Wisconsin State Historical Society, on the vast University of Wisconsin campus, held the papers of Sigrid…

— Erik Larson

If I'd been living in Berlin in 1933-34, could I possibly have foreseen the Holocaust and all the corollary horrors of World War II?…

— Erik Larson

I figured, correctly, that Berlin in February was not a destination coveted by tourists. I found good airfares on Lufthansa, an airline I quite…

— Erik Larson

I knew Berlin would have to become a kind of character in my new book, 'In the Garden of Beasts'. I had felt likewise…

— Erik Larson

There is something about the name Berlin that evokes an image of men in hats and long coats standing under streetlamps on rainy nights.

— Erik Larson

You do that stupid thing at 12 years old when you say something and it kind of sticks with you for the rest of…

— Tom Felton

Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage…

— Bernhard Schlink

“in any company’s greatest achievements one might, with the clarity of hindsight, locate the beginnings of its own demise.”

— Jon Gertner