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.

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.

Tana French

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.

Michael Lewis

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

Michael McFaul

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

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.

Robert Holsworth

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

Alan Perlis

C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.

Mickey Andrews

There's a void there right now. But we've got some potential.

Diane Setterfield

When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.

Bryant H. McGill

Become empty to become complete, for it is the void that defines the form.

Boris Johnson

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.

Antonio Porchia

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

Elizabeth Bowen

... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.

Siddha Nagarjuna

Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.

Alexander Hamilton

There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.

Charles Dickens

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

Alan Watts

The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

Alan Ball

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is quite impossible to worship God without loving Him.

Edith Piaf

To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

August Wilson

I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible....

Deborah Harkness

Just because something seems impossible doesn’t make it untrue,

Deb Caletti

Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.

Indian Proverb

Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.