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I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

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• I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Time
  • Party
  • Myself

• The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Life
  • Live
  • Past

• In terms of relationships, I've had two failures, although I don't like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I've always said that I am a much loved woman.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Learning
  • Woman
  • Regret

• I don't believe in regret.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Believe
  • Regret

• Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right?

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Trump
  • Will
  • Himself

• I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

  

  Orson Welles
  • Think
  • Woman
  • Mistake

• I've done a lot of things that I regret.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Done
  • Things
  • Regret

• I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Regret
  • More
  • Beliefs

• Never regret what you don't write.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • You
  • Never
  • Regret

• My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'

  

  Oliver North
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mom

• I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Hate
  • Myself
  • Regret

• I was always in a big hurry to do everything. Before I was 20, I was married twice and had two kids. But I don't regret any of it. I learned a lot about myself. I had a lot to say for someone my age, real early on.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Age

• I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Artist
  • Person
  • Regret

• Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Life
  • Path
  • Follow

• It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Better
  • Regret
  • Prepare

• When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Years
  • Own
  • Discover

• Peace has been as bad as war. Peace has killed as many people as war. Peace is as bad. Peace is as bad...

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • People
  • War
  • Bad

• Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place, that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Girl

• To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it. On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina. Waiting for her.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Thinking
  • Football
  • Waiting

• Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

  

  David Einhorn

• If George is around, it will.

  

  Oscar Levant

• To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I'm always, like, just in it. It's like, 'Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I'm so happy.'

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Music
  • God
  • Happy

• Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Passion
  • Glory
  • Grimaces

• I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

  

  Publilius Syrus
  • Regret