#retrospect

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#regret #retrospect #inspirational

Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#acted #asked #certainly #closely #domestic

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

#council #enough #failure #i #maybe

The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#change #consideration #courage #forget #just

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#retrospect #revolutions #see #something #you

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

#album #course #forced #great #know

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

— Wayne Newton

#been #happen #i #making #most

Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through. ↗

— Ted Olson

#barbara #calls #capable #collect #doing

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm. ↗

— Jeff Sessions

#around #before #enough #failures #go

The act of vividly recalling a patch of the past is something that I seem to have been performing with the utmost zest all my life, and I have reason to believe that this almost pathological keenness of the retrospective faculty is a hereditary trait. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#retrospect #life