Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

Cheryl Strayed

The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

Robert Holsworth

I actually think in retrospect our decision-making turned out very well,

Andy Richter

My ability to notice that kind of thing, the sanctity of the bubble that you create, has not been so good in a way, in that I notice it concurrently with actually doing the thing. I always notice it in retrospect.

Michael Lewis

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .

Mignon McLaughlin

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.

Guillermo del Toro

You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

Michael McFaul

In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible.

Byron Katie

Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.

Al Sharpton

I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim,

Charisma Carpenter

I wasn't willing to be a victim. I only wanted to survive, and I only wanted to get through.

Billy Tauzin

Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims.

Deepak Chopra

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

Cameron van der Burgh

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

Frank Haas

Basically, we've become a victim of our own success.

Susann Griffin

We don't want to do anything that would impede the investigation for the victim or the suspect.

Kurt Vonnegut

I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.

Tom Bissell

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

Bret Easton Ellis

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

Byron Katie

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Bryan Ferry

I can never predict what's going to happen.

Ed Koch

It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

Elizabeth Mitchell

I was a complete, total nerd... I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don't know if that happens in life. But I want it to.

Eckhart Tolle

True change happens within not without

Ashley Smith

You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Brian Urlacher

I see things as they happen pretty quick, and I just go hit it.