Quotes of Retrospect - somelinesforyou

“ Hindsight is always zo/20. ”

- Billy Wilder

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

- Robert Frost

“ 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

“ Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. ”

- Paul Theroux

“ The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast. ”

- Robertson W. Neicoll

“ So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Evil is obvious only in retrospect. ”

- Gloria Steinem

“ One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. ”

- Sigmund Freud

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. ”

- Malcolm Muggeridge

“ Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. ”

- J. K. Rowling

“ Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. ”

- Paul Theroux

“ The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence. ”

- Henry Fuseli

“ I do not really look back with regret on any feelings or problems I have had in the past. I think I am more able to accept problems as being part of the rough and tumble of life. There are bound to be ups and downs. In retrospect, when you've gotten pasty a tough period, it makes the good things that much better. ”

- Graham Chapman
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