Prospectively And Retrospectively Quotes & Sayings

And Private Jasper Jacks awake in a dark, empty room approximately twelve feet square. — John Green

This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying. — Brandon Marshall

You're seriously in love, you know that? It's a great feeling, unless it hurts like a bitch. — Aleksandr Voinov

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go? — Danny DeVito

That's the way it is, he said, a slight sense of failure that keeps growing stronger and the body gets used to it. You can't escape the void, just as you can't help crossing the streets if you live in a city, with the added annoyance that sometimes the street is endlessly wide, the buildings look like warehouses out of gangster movies, and some people choose the worst moments to think about their mothers. — Roberto Bolano

Common sense ... has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of the principal criteria to be applied to successful science is that its results are almost always obvious retrospectively; unfortunately, they seldom are prospectively. Common sense provides a kind of ultimate validation after science has completed its work; it seldom anticipates what science is going to discover. — Russell L. Ackoff

It's as though the inhabitants of the cities were outdistanced by the wisdom and the aspirations of the cities themselves. Things have a better feeling for the future than people do. People feel historically, i.e. retrospectively. Walls, streets, wires, chimneys feel prospectively. People get in the way of progress. They hang sentimental weights on the winged feet of time. — Joseph Roth

But the technology is only trivial retrospectively - not prospectively. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Sex has never been an obsession with me. It's just like eating a bag of crisps. Quite nice, but nothing marvellous. — Boy George

Play fair, Haller." "It's not a fair game. Did she tell you — Michael Connelly

The decision to stand unapologetically for the gospel has been tantamount to a new conversion. It brings peace; it dissolves fears; it snaps fingers at ridicule. — Elton Trueblood