Quotes About Retrospect

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

In retrospect, the populist panic may have been overblown. Regarding Brexit, for example, the shock exaggerated its meaning. Because it was so unexpected, it became a sensation.

I remember all the old catwalks and stuff at County Stadium.

In retrospect, their best chance of doing it this way was against Arsenal, in the game they won 8–2. They only needed another nine that afternoon – and they missed at least fifteen good chances.

wisdom and understanding in the course of human history will only come fully at a late stage, when we're looking back on what has already happened, like someone looking back on the events of a day as night falls.

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

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.

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.

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.

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.

When you can see your life in retrospect, the romanticism of how good things once were gives way to the reality that positives and negatives comprise every day and every decade. (235)

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospect; it has to be shattered before ascertained.

retrospective smartness

Hell is truth seen too late.

When you talk to people in retrospect, they always say the casting was a no-brainer, but nothing really is. You have to have so many things line up. I'm very grateful that it worked out.

For this will to deceive that is in thing luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies

For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.

It would in retrospect appear to be a stop on a narrative path that was inevitable, but this is only because most events, most paths, feel inevitable in retrospect.

the time than they do in retrospect, and they show a love of design that was, on occasion, a bit too exuberant. But they set Apple apart and provided the publicity bursts

look back at those huge obstacles—such as illness, accidents, addiction, financial loss, children's struggles, and divorce—and see in retrospect that they were actually gifts disguised as problems.

The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.

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.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.