Top 310 Retrospect Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect.
Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
Righteousness is easy in retrospect.
People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.
I didn't think of myself as beautiful, but, in retrospect, I guess I was.
I'm not saying that McDonald's gift certificates caused the obesity epidemic, but in retrospect, the timing is kind of suspicious.
I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.
In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!
People always understand everything in retrospect.
It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.
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.
And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Life is not only meant to be appreciated in retrospect ... There is something each day to embrace and cherish.
...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.
I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development.
Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.
In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.
I really tend to write in retrospect.
Perspective will come in retrospect.
Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.
In any walk of life, it's very easy to judge people's actions in retrospect.
Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.
I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.
In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful.
Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.
History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.
In retrospect, of course I regret calling them (Charlton fans) morons. Imbeciles would have been more appropriate.
In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.
I look back in retrospect, and I would never say I regret not one of my children. They are why I live.
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired
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.
'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.
In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended.
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
Often a retrospect delights the mind.
Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.
The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.
Honestly, in retrospect, it probably was a little easier being an adolescent and not having people immediately know that Hef was my dad.
And there's always retrospect to light a clearer path.
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.
Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.
The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed.
As human beings, our lives should be in retrospect with God.
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
Experience is retrospect knowledge.
Everything looks more beautiful in retrospect.
Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.
It's no fun to be miscast. The times I've done parts that I don't feel, in retrospect, I was great for - it's a very bad feeling.
