Famous quotes containing the words retrospect and/or denial:
“You never know in retrospect whether you did or didn’t do exactly the right thing, stay-at-home mothers, gone-away mothers, all of us worry whether we should have done something differently than we did.”
—Hillary Rodham Clinton (20th century)
“... that’s what living happens to be ... the physiological denial of reverence and good manners and Christianity.... At your age one’s quite old enough to know what the essence of life really is. Shamelessness, that’s all; pure shamelessness.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)