All Quotes

In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.
‐‐ David Baker

In retrospect, I think I had some kind of learning disorder. I could kind of charm my way through grade school, but in high school... I could never seem to grasp things.
‐‐ Dave Cooper

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
‐‐ Kate Morton

In retrospect, 'Pulp Fiction' isn't just the template for everything Tarantino has done but the yardstick by which everything else he does is measured one way or another.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

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

In retrospect, the most unnerving aspect of being openly gay was that it turned out to be as disappointingly normal as being straight.
‐‐ Lance Loud

In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry, still summer day in the Midwest: an unsettling calm before a ferocious storm over Vietnam, which was not yet an American war.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.
‐‐ Jeff Sessions

In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'
‐‐ Edmund White

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.
‐‐ Ray Dalio

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.
‐‐ Hugo Black

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.
‐‐ Ralph Adams Cram

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
‐‐ Georges Jacques Danton

In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.
‐‐ Bjork

In Rikers, you had the Italians over here, the Spanish over here, the Blacks here, then there would be your Christians here and your Muslim brotherhood here. It's just like the outside, but in very closed quarters where you have to get along or else. The sense of claustrophobia in 'Orange is the New Black' - that's real.
‐‐ Sharon Jones

In Rio, 1.4 million of the 6.3 million people live in favelas, or slums. They are all over the city, but favelas are not always a problem - sometimes they can be a solution, if you have the right public policies.
‐‐ Eduardo Paes

In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!
‐‐ Angie Dickinson

In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.
‐‐ Jose Padilha

In Rio we built a Center of Operations, a situation room that gathers information from municipal departments and allows us to manage and help decision-making. I can check the weather, the traffic and the location of city's waste collection trucks. Each of 4,000 buses in the city has a camera connected to the situation room.
‐‐ Eduardo Paes

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.
‐‐ James Buchan

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
‐‐ Leonardo da Vinci

In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people. It's like a city within a city.
‐‐ Al-Waleed bin Talal

In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his transformation in a process that's explained not through the supernatural but the natural or, at least, through biochemistry.
‐‐ Joshua Cohen

In 'Robin Hood,' I did quarterstaff fighting.
‐‐ Brooke Elliott

In rock climbing, people get strong enough, and then they pick goals they can do with their strengths at that moment.
‐‐ Tommy Caldwell

In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't.
‐‐ Kim Gordon

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.
‐‐ Courtney Love

In 'Rocky' and 'Paradise Alley,' my dad played very expressive characters, and he was out there.
‐‐ Sage Stallone

In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

In Romania, American forces have found a devoted NATO ally.
‐‐ Joe Biden

In Romania, of course, gymnastics is among the most popular sports, and my parents had a dream of escaping the Ceausescu regime and giving their child a better life. So they came to the United States and put me in gymnastics.
‐‐ Dominique Moceanu

In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded and above all, de-politicized.
‐‐ Victor Ponta

In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.
‐‐ Herta Muller

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.
‐‐ Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history.
‐‐ Philip Treacy

In Ronald Reagan's case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

In Ronald Reagan's chaotic childhood, the imagination was armor. There is nothing unusual about that; transcending the doubts, hesitations, and fears swirling around you by casting yourself internally as the hero of your own adventure story is a characteristic psychic defense mechanism of the Boy Who Disappears.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
‐‐ Bil Keane

In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
‐‐ Gail Sheehy

In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.'
‐‐ Bryan Volpenhein

In rugby union, I was out wide kicking stones with the pretty boys.
‐‐ Sonny Bill Williams

In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming back in the next race. I'm always ready for the next race.
‐‐ Donovan Bailey

In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and I'm never going to break the world record for the five miles. It's partly genetics; I'm just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being?
‐‐ Stefan Sagmeister

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.
‐‐ John Roos

In rural North Carolina, you can get lots of great advice about how to clean and quarter a deer carcass, but we didn't really have anyone to ask for video advice, so we just kept learning through trial and error.
‐‐ Rhett McLaughlin

In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.
‐‐ Gary Locke

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
‐‐ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.
‐‐ Paul Robeson

In Russia, I pretend to be a lot of princesses and wait for prince. That was my dream.
‐‐ Anna Netrebko