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In retrospect it becomes clear that hindsight is definitely overrated!
— Sergio Aragones
Now they were probably telling one another: Yeah, I knew something wasn't right. Everyone's brilliant in retrospect.
— Tess Gerritsen
But stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances. 18
— Stephen King
In retrospect we can only be thankful to all the mistakes that we made and to all the lessons that we learned from them!
— Avijeet Das
The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it's rarely a straight line.
— Eileen Kennedy-Moore
Only visible in retrospect, my friend. If I'm successful, people will call me brave. If I fail, I will be called foolish.
— Amish Tripathi
Love is in prospect or retrospect, the present is ecstasy.
— Nicholas Mosley
In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful.
— Demetri Martin
In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.
— Jeff Sessions
In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.
— John Green
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
— J.K. Rowling
The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.
— Timothy Noah
Perspective will come in retrospect.
— Melody Beattie
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
It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.
— Caroline Pratt
'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.
— Mark Valley
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
There are so many things I wish I had learned when I was 16 or 17 years old. They would have been game changers in my life.
— Pete Herr
I really tend to write in retrospect.
— Randy Houser
I will say that all it takes is one group of wrong-minded people with a bad idea that, in retrospect, sounded like a good one at the time.
— Ernie Lindsey
I have always been much cleverer in retrospect.
— Jaida Jones
Righteousness is easy in retrospect.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect.
— John Green
Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.
— Mignon McLaughlin
You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.
— Marilynne Robinson
Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
— Gloria Steinem
The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.
— Criss Jami
There are many things we only see
clearly in retrospect. — Haruki Murakami
clearly in retrospect. — Haruki Murakami
In retrospect, though many were guilty, none was innocent.
— A.J.P. Taylor
Strange how a single conversation can change you. Or maybe it only seems that way in retrospect.
— Barack Obama
In retrospect, of course I regret calling them (Charlton fans) morons. Imbeciles would have been more appropriate.
— Simon Jordan
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?
— Sylvia Plath
That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.
— Steve Carlton
Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich ...
— Michael Lewis
How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.
— Evelyn Waugh
Retrospect, and they show a love of design that was, on occasion, a bit too exuberant. But
— Walter Isaacson
In retrospect they might have started sleeping together solely out of conversational exhaustion.
— Robert Jackson Bennett
Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy
also cheap, — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
also cheap, — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.
— Kate Atkinson
Retrospect: the sweetener of life.
— Kamand Kojouri
We were good together. Not in retrospect, not out of nostalgia. Not in anticipation. But here and now good. Very good.
— Eshkol Nevo
Often a retrospect delights the mind.
— Dante Alighieri
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
That's like looking for dick in a lesbian bar. In retrospect, Chase would agree. But he'd
— Anonymous
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
People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.
— Paula Fox
In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended.
— Gottfried Helnwein
But the paradox of pain is that it is only universal in retrospect. In the present, it is fiercely personal.
— Glennon Doyle Melton
Destiny exists only in retrospect.
— Marty Rubin
This should have been a red flag, I realize in retrospect. Working really hard on anything is, by definition, not cool.
— Leila Sales
Which in retrospect just goes to show that a pretty face can inspire even a bodiless spirit of intellect to dizzying heights of idiocy.
— Jim Butcher
How wise we all are in retrospect. Unfortunately it was not possible to go back and change the past: one could only move on into a new future.
— Freda Lightfoot
Is it easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness.
— Donna Tartt
Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
— Chuck Palahniuk
People always understand everything in retrospect.
— Agnes Denes
They say screwy things, make odd choices which, in retrospect, they feel amazingly foolish for making.
— Jim Butcher
Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.
— Arthur Koestler
Life is not only meant to be appreciated in retrospect ... There is something each day to embrace and cherish.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect.
— Marilynne Robinson
Decisions are never made in retrospect, hence there is no point regretting them, ever.
— David Darson
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn
— Robert Frost
No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
— Edward Teller
Strange that, the way happiness only works in retrospect.
— Peter Akinti
In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.
— David Baker
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
In retrospect, the most unnerving aspect of being openly gay was that it turned out to be as disappointingly normal as being straight.
— Lance Loud
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
— Sigmund Freud
No retrospect will take us to the true beginning
— George Eliot
It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.
— Paul Kingsnorth
A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.
— David Sze
Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
— Alan Greenspan
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
Time has a way of reminding us of its perishable nature in the retrospect of our reflections.
— Gary Westfal
Experience is retrospect knowledge.
— Hosea Ballou
You can imagine anything to be fun in retrospect- look at all those people who long for high school.
— Jennifer Close
Our lives can only be interpreted in retrospect, yet must be lived from day to day, blindly. What folly, the human condition!
— Joyce Carol Oates
Do we only decide in retrospect that we've been happy? Don't we notice when we're happy, or do we realize only much later that we were?
— Nina George
Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
In retrospect, the highlight of dating him had been free coffee and a particularly compelling discussion on the fall of the Roman Empire.
— Richelle Mead
One sign of a good action is that in retrospect it appears inevitable.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
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
A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.
— Alfred De Musset
In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible.
— Michael McFaul
Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
— Paul Theroux