Retrospect famous quotes

People always understand everything in retrospect.
-- Agnes Denes

#People #Retrospect

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
-- Alan Greenspan

#Retrospect #Revolution

The question is where are business ethics and morality if one of the parties wants to dishonor a binding contract, just because in retrospect it realizes it could perhaps have got a better price!
-- Anil Ambani

#Party #Want #Retrospect

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#Retrospect #Ethics #Easy

Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap,
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#Self #Retrospect #Easy

Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us.
-- Ayya Khema

#Grateful #People #Retrospect

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Artist #Retrospect #Strings

History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.
-- C. V. Wedgwood

#Retrospect #Ends

It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.
-- Caroline Pratt

#Retrospect #Flaunting #Banner

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Writing #Retrospect

In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful.
-- Demetri Martin

#Hopeful #Retrospect #Infinite

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

#Eagles #Retrospect #Realizing

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
-- Edward Teller

#Simple #Perspective #Retrospect

Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired
-- Ellis Peters

#Saint #May #Retrospect

And there's always retrospect to light a clearer path.
-- Emily Saliers

#Light #Retrospect #Path

In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended.
-- Gottfried Helnwein

#School #Ducks #Retrospect

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 rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak.
-- Henry Adams

#Editing #Retrospect #Rebel

You know, 'Peepshow,' in retrospect that seems like a good fit for me, but in the beginning, I'm sure you remember, nobody was sure if the show was going to last. Everybody was like, 'What are you doing? You can't sing, and you can't dance. What are you doing in this show?
-- Holly Madison

#Doing You #Retrospect #Lasts

Experience is retrospect knowledge.
-- Hosea Ballou

#Experience #Retrospect

In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!
-- James Blish

#Retrospect #Steps #Abyss

As a child I was attracted to Tarzan and everything that had to do with jungles. It seemed to me -- and this is in retrospect -- that there was something primal, something right about it. Tarzan represented a pure being, somehow before the fall.
-- Jean Liedloff

#Children #Fall #Retrospect

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.
-- Jeanne C. Stein

#People #Retrospect

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.
-- Jessica Livingston

#Innovation #Battle #Retrospect

I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late.
-- Jonathan Carroll

#Too Late #Retrospect #Heard

Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.
-- Kate Atkinson

#People #Events #Retrospect

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
-- Kate Morton

#Retrospect #Becoming #Realising

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge

#Selfish #Exercise #Retrospect

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

#Ideas #Retrospect #Firsts

Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
-- Mary Catherine Bateson

#Perspective #Retrospect #Continuity

Perspective will come in retrospect.
-- Melody Beattie

#Perspective #Retrospect

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .
-- Michael Lewis

#Retrospect #Would Be #Financial

In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible.
-- Michael McFaul

#Revolution #Retrospect #Impossible

Everything looks more beautiful in retrospect.
-- Michelle Monaghan

#Beautiful #Looks #Retrospect

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.
-- Mignon McLaughlin

#Retrospect #Triumph #Defeat

It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.
-- Patricia Moyes

#Interesting #Events #Retrospect

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
-- Paul Theroux

#Travel #Retrospect #Glamorous

I really tend to write in retrospect.
-- Randy Houser

#Writing #Retrospect

One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God's design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him, not before.
-- Ravi Zacharias

#Design #Retrospect

A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant or necessary than they actually were.
-- Robert Greene

#People #Looks #Retrospect

The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August day. In retrospect, it seems inevitable - it could not have been any other way-- a case of what I call the high probability of the improbable
-- Robert James Waller

#August #Retrospect #Way

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

#Life #Retrospect #Action

There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.
-- Stephen Hawking

#Thinking #Important #Retrospect

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.
-- Steve Carlton

#Past #Retrospect #Agree

Each person’s life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came before.
-- Suketu Mehta

#Shapes #Retrospect #Events

I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was in the tightly interwoven fabric that was our life. I wish I could go back to it because, in retrospect, it seems so secure compared to now, when I am so rich and famous and so hated by the authorities in the capitol.
-- Suzanne Collins

#Wish #Fabric #Retrospect

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.
-- Tana French

#Retrospect #Noticing

Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it.
-- Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#Adventure #Interesting #Retrospect

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
-- Wayne Newton

#Retrospect #Victim

There is always a reason. When I look back on things that really upset me at the moment, I can always see why it happened in retrospect.
-- Melissa Rauch

#Upset #Retrospect #Looks

Maybe a deal was possible earlier. And maybe, in retrospect, looking back, you could say this was a moment you could have jumped on. If so, shame on us. I tend to think not.
-- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.

#Thinking #Retrospect #Shame

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.
-- Paul Kingsnorth

#Retrospect #Intention #Determine

Looking back in retrospect, there were some great moments working with some great people, ... I don't know quite how to put it into words. I don't look at it quite the same way other people do.
-- Dave Mason

#People #Retrospect #Way

Each person’s life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came before.
-- Suketu Mehta

#Events #Shapes #Retrospect

I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.
-- William Bolcom

#Retrospect #Process #Composing