William Cowper Quotes
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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 -
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 -
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
Ogden Nash -
I don't believe in regret.
Sadie Jones -
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin -
Work is both my living and my pleasure.
Harlan Howard
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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 -
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
I've done a lot of things that I regret.
R. Kelly -
I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.
F. Sionil Jose -
Never regret what you don't write.
Abraham Lincoln -
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Manuel Puig
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I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
Gary Hume -
Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
Abraham Clark -
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 -
It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
Bahman Ghobadi -
I...regret...what I did. It was wrong. Very wrong. But regret is meaningless.
N. K. Jemisin
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If we're going to be considered horror filmmakers, we have to prove it not only to ourselves but to the audience that we can actually make something scary.
Adam Wingard -
There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.
Karl Schroeder -
I've never seen a Brink's truck follow a hearse to the cemetery.
Barbara Hutton -
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
William Cowper