Exposures - in Retrospect and Denial

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)

    One would think, that a deliberate and practical denial of its authority was the only offence never contemplated by government; else, why has it not assigned its definite, its suitable and proportionate, penalty?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)