One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.
There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect.
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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.
Righteousness is easy in retrospect.
Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.
Perspective will come in retrospect.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long period of prayer, you suddenly realize that something has happened. What is most close, most intimate, most present, often cannot be experienced directly but only with a certain distance. When I think that I am only distracted, just wasting my time, something is happening too Immediate for knowing, understanding, and experiencing. Only in retrospect do I realize that something very important has taken place.
I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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.
Often a retrospect delights the mind.
Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
Everything looks more beautiful in retrospect.
I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.
I really tend to write in retrospect.
Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.
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