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Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Telling it all after the fact ... easier said than done! ... much easier!
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The fact is, after a certain age, high heels can feel as painful as someone sticking hot pins into the soles of your feet.
— Marie Helvin
The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not before him, not after him.
— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Perspective is a bitch when it slaps you in the face, after the fact
— Madeline Sheehan
Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact
— Charles Taylor
Messi is on a different level. The fact he is doing what he is year after year says that he is the best of all time.
— Ruud Van Nistelrooy
The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete.
— Benjamin Disraeli
You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth ... after the fact.
— Andy Serkis
The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.
— Maria Montessori
In fact, after a while it was the machines I was looking at, not my father at all. They had become him. They were telling me his story. Which
— Daniel Wallace
I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.
— Ann B. Ross
Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.
— Thomas Sowell
Truth has this habit of changing after the fact, don't you find?
— David Mitchell
One must take into account the shocking fact that we live on a world that spins. After considering this truth, nothing should come as a surprise.
— Thomas Ligotti
I hate prophesies! All they're good for is an extra club to beat yourself up with after the fact.
— Ursula Vernon
Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.
— Arthur Golden
My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.
— F. Murray Abraham
Just because something makes sense after the fact doesn't mean it was obvious all along.
— Sam Gosling
I'm comfortable with anything after the fact.
— George Saunders
And after some talk we agreed that the wisdom of rats had been grossly overrated, being in fact no greater than that of men.
— Joseph Conrad
I'm always brilliant after the fact.
— Shelly Fredman
Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.
— Raymond Pettibon
The final state of affairs may not have been foreseen. Perhaps we are merely reading a plan into the world after the fact.
— B.F. Skinner
I'm not a huge TV person, but when I do watch, it's always after the fact because I like to binge watch.
— Alia Shawkat
-Speaking about Vaccinations - If you accept the truth after the fact, the pain will last a life time. — Richard Diaz
I've had some confrontations after I got out of prison and I'm proud of the fact that I dealt with them differently.
— Immortal Technique
How can something feel so crucial in the moment and then seem completely trivial after the fact?
— Paula Stokes
As I sat alone at the computer hour after hour it seemed I was learning "computers." In fact, I was learning culture.
— Virginia Heffernan
THE DOWNFALL OF ambition is sometimes letting life pass you by and only realizing it did so after the fact.
— Claire Contreras
A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in light of the information available until that point
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.
— Jennifer Echols
Years after the fact, when people asked me how I got into the horse business, the answer was always the same: "I saw Secretariat.
— George Rowand
After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.
— Craig Ferguson
The fact is that they always go after your weakest point - the wolves chase down the weakest sheep in the herd.
— Haruki Murakami
Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.
— Cecelia Ahern
Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'
— William S. Burroughs
After a while the fear became a constant, cold companion, a simple fact of existence.
— Alan Brennert
It's not only the wealth of sounds in Omnisphere; You're struck by the fact that you hear magic sound after magic sound.
— Jordan Rudess
POSTHUMOUS POSTPONEMENTFACT: Unlike airplanes, many dreams take off after the pilot's departure
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali
To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?
— Virginia Woolf
Sometimes the price one pays for something continues to grow after the fact,becoming too expensive long after it has been paid.
— Jenny Erpenbeck
Things always become obvious after the fact
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
After the fact, our hearts always go out to the fallen Goliaths. Yet we invariably root for their Davids. Until they're winners.
— Malcolm Forbes
The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after.
— Cecelia Ahern
Sorrow for a wrong was better than nothing ... but no amount of after-the-fact sorrow could ever atone for joy taken in destruction ...
— Stephen King
After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.
— Emily Browning
When you take the fact that you're loved for granted, it frees your mind to go after every other thing there is.
— Philipp Meyer
I don't want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact.
— Patrick Stump
Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
careful scientific studies have revealed that a lot of conscious "decisions" that we think we make are actually rationalizations after the fact.
— A. David Redish
In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.
— Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
— William S. Burroughs
