Quotes by Retrospect People always understand everything in retrospect. Agnes Denes retrospectpeople Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect. Alan Greenspan retrospectrevolution The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War. Alan Greenspan retrospectwarworld A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures. Alfred de Musset retrospectvividjoy My ability to notice that kind of thing, the sanctity of the bubble that you create, has not been so good in a way, in that I notice it concurrently with actually doing the thing. I always notice it in retrospect. Andy Richter retrospectkindway 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 retrospectpartywant Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it is the stories we didn't write, the questions we didn't ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did. Anna Quindlen retrospectstorieswriting Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect. Arthur Koestler retrospectemotionalkind Righteousness is easy in retrospect. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. retrospectethicsintegrity Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. retrospectbusinessmanlong Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. retrospectselfeasy 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. retrospectshamethinking 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 stringsretrospectartist There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. "I've pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can't I'm just fed up with that. Let's do something else."And you always think "Oh my God I've never done anything at all like that before." But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they'll say, "Oh, yeah that's typical Eno. Brian Eno retrospectboredthinking 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 retrospectendsknows It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners. Caroline Pratt bannerflauntingretrospect The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which. Cheryl Strayed retrospectcomplicatedsometimes 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 versionsretrospectwriting So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at least you can control your version. Chuck Palahniuk retrospectwritinglooks Often a retrospect delights the mind. Dante Alighieri retrospectdelightmind1234»
