Quotes of: Retrospect Keyword

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

Kate Morton

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

Vladimir Nabokov

I've had a number of near misses during my travels that in retrospect seem of greater concern than they did at the time. I guess that is what happens with age.

John Prendergast

To me, in retrospect, it was amazing that 'Seinfeld' was a show that had such mass appeal. At first it was a disaster in the ratings, but then it became a cultural phenomenon. I don't know if that's possible anymore, but I don't try for that.

Bill Lawrence

Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.

Armageddon in Retrospect

It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.

I Learn from Children

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Robert Frost

In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

Rufus Wainwright

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Generational change within a genre is hard to parse while it's happening. Only in retrospect can the passing of the baton from ancestors to progeny be clearly discerned.

Paul Di Filippo

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.

Bob Hope

Of course, we wrote the songs accordingly and performed and recorded them that way. At that time, we really thought it was right, but you know, seen in retrospect, it made the album sound forced, and not really great.

Mark McGrath

In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.

Tony Blair

In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'

Edmund White

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.

Evelyn Waugh

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

Christopher Hitchens

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.

Gloria Steinem

The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black.

Joan Didion

Hold a retrospective approach in your spirit to figure out your loopholes and try to forge out for filling them for a lucrative self growth

Anshul Dubey

A time comes in the life of a man when all you do is reflect on retrospective actions and desire better outcomes in the future

Wogu Donald

Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.

The Elephant Tree