Retrospect Quotes

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

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

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

Everything that happens to us can be looked at as a gift. Although it's quite difficult when you're in the middle of a hard struggle with something, it's hard to see it as a gift, but in retrospect, we can almost always look back and say, "Oh, I see why I had to go through that."

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

There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect.

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

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.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

People always understand everything in retrospect.

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

Perspective will come in retrospect.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

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

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!

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.

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

Everything looks more beautiful in retrospect.

To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to me, in retrospect, that there was much to be said for their suggestion. On the other hand, many philosophers are quite good company; the arguments they use are generally better than the ones that lawyers use; and we do get to go to as many faculty meetings as we like at no extra charge.

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.

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