#retrospect

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

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

#give #glow #great #greatest #happiness

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

#choices #confront #dangers #events #facing

I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#decided #exhibition #i #major #only

I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to. ↗

— Virginia Euwer Wolff

#change #retrospect #young-adult #change

I feel like I am either on the cusp of something great, or standing on the edge of my abyss, discovering something brand new, or uncovering somebody elses lost imagination. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#life-philosophy #life_universe_everything #philisophical #philisophical-life #philosphy

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

— Henry David Thoreau

#regret #retrospect #inspirational

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect. ↗

— Steve Carlton

#i #past #retrospect

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence. ↗

— Russell Brand

#analysis #applying #big #could #defence

The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls. ↗

— John Hersey

#blast #body #broke #burns #caused