Retroactive Quotes

#1. The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

Harold Coffin

#2. Congress passed the deeply flawed Patriot Act and authorized the invasion of Iraq. It even gave its retroactive approval to warrantless wiretapping.

Andrew Rosenthal

#3. What you are talking about is retroactive classification. And the reason that happens is when somebody asks or when you are asked to make information public, I asked all my emails to be made public. Then all the rest of the government gets to weigh in.

Hillary Clinton

#4. Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. I saw School of Rock, and I was like, why haven't I worked with Richard Linklater already? Then by the time I got him I was like, I'm really pissed off I feel like you owe me some retroactive swag. He gave me the 10-year anniversary "Dazed and Confused" T-shirt, which I still wear with relish.

Robert Downey Jr.

#6. You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.

Redd Foxx

#7. It is futile to talk too much about the past ... like trying to make birth control retroactive.

Charles Erwin Wilson

#8. Retroactive management emphasizes the bottom line.

W. Edwards Deming

#9. The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.

Daniel Dennett

#10. [On being asked if she would favor birth control laws:] I will if you make it retroactive.

Florence Prag Kahn

#11. There is no straight line to Goodness, to Love, or to God. And thank God, Grace is always retroactive.

Richard Rohr

#12. Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.

Sheldon Vanauken

#13. Pannenberg's conception of retroactive continuity ultimately means that history flows fundamentally from the future into the past, that the future is not basically a product of the past.

E. Frank Tupper

#14. The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.

Dale Dauten

#15. Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.

Mary Jane Ward

#16. During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, 'Hang on a minute - I can paint.' I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.

Ronnie Wood

#17. I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

Rollo May

#18. I like big shows, a lot of volume and a lot of energy. I love electric instruments. But I do love mixing those with bluegrass instruments and cranking those up, too, with a little bit of that rock energy.

Dierks Bentley

#19. Poe, come on. Don't be like this." She avoided his gaze, and that was killing him. He'd rather she yell at him than give him nothing at all.

Yawatta Hosby

#20. If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.

Peta Wilson

#21. Let there be consistency in whatever you do and whatever you say. If what you think and say is mismatching with what you do, you can't really be trusted.

Israelmore Ayivor

#22. I have a lot of musician friends. I worked in radio as a music director, and I know everybody hears about the George Straits and the Garth Brooks and the Kenny Chesneys and all that, but for every major star, there are thousands who didn't quite make it.

Robert David Hall

#23. One Reality, all-comprehensive, contains within itself all realities.

Aldous Huxley

#24. I want to invade the space all around you until everywhere you look all you see is me." I trace my tongue along the delicate curves of her ear and she sighs. "I want to occupy the space inside you until you don't know the difference between my heartbeat and yours. I want to be your everything.

Cassia Leo