Quotes Tagged With :retrospect

As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.

Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from, the more you wish they'd never happened.

A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been thinking....

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as....

The act of vividly recalling a patch of the past is something that I seem to have been performing with....

What was I supposed to do then I wondered. Was there even a supposed-to for this kind of situation? A....

I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment....

Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed....

Naturally—and why should I not admit this—I have occasionally wondered to myself how things might....

You carry the message you've been seeking, but realization of it is found in healthy retrospection, not....