Retrospect Quotes

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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 college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible.

In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.

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.

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

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

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

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.

You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

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.

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 is confined to a very few hours.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect.

It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

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.

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

People always understand everything in retrospect.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

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

Perspective will come in retrospect.

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!

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

In retrospect it always seems to work out that you can look back on something that was a disaster and find some gems in there.

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.

The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Experience is retrospect knowledge.

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

'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.

Life is not only meant to be appreciated in retrospect ... There is something each day to embrace and cherish.

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

When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.

I really tend to write in retrospect.

Everything looks more beautiful in retrospect.

The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.

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

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

And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'

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.

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

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.

Often a retrospect delights the mind.

In retrospect, of course I regret calling them (Charlton fans) morons. Imbeciles would have been more appropriate.

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.