Andrew Davidson Quotes

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.

Andrew Davidson

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• 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

• I don't believe in regret.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Believe
  • Regret

• 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 might not know who I was yesterday or who I'm going to be tomorrow, but I know who I am right now.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Know
  • Tomorrow
  • Yesterday

• My life was really focused on futbol, but as those things happen in life, my passion for music won over my passion for futbol. But I love what I do. I don't regret it.

  

  Maluma
  • Life
  • Music
  • Love

• Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • You
  • Present
  • Yesterday

• I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Different
  • Me
  • Fall

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

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Better
  • Regret
  • Prepare

• I...regret...what I did. It was wrong. Very wrong. But regret is meaningless.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Regret

• I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Freedom
  • Passion
  • Regret

• We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Friends
  • Success
  • Regret

• Clavain felt little in the way of regret; more a sense of quiet relief that they were past the negotiating stage and into the infinitely more honest arena of actual battle.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Past
  • Regret

• One of the things I try to do - and I always regret when I'm not doing it - is I try to read as much as possible as I'm consuming news.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Regret

• I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Parents
  • Single
  • Hurt

• To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.

  

  David Whyte
  • Past
  • Control
  • Present

• If I had not made strategic choices, I would have had far more access to dramatic roles. But the one thing I don't regret, even about bad choices, is that there's always something you can get out of it.

  

  Carol Kane
  • Bad
  • Choices
  • Regret

• I don't regret things, because I learn from mistakes. If needs be, I always make amends.

  

  Marc Warren
  • Regret

• I don't regret being on television; I just regret the fact that I wanted to be in the movies, and that didn't happen.

  

  Karishma Tanna
  • Regret

• I don't believe in mistakes. Never have. I believe that there are a multitude of paths before us and it's just a matter of which way we walk home. I don't believe in regret. If you regret things about your life, than I'll bet that you're not paying attention. Regret is just imagining that you know what would have happened if you took that job in California or married your high-school sweetheart or just looked one more time before you stepped out into the street ... or didn't. But you don't know; you can't possibly know.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Men
  • War
  • Nature

• I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Time
  • Stupid
  • Speak

• Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Control
  • Animal

• Women never confess and even when they seemingly resign themselves to such a course they are not sincere.

  

  Emile Gaboriau
  • Women
  • Sincere
  • Confess

• The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.

  

  Andrew Davidson
  • Regret
  • Yesterday
  • Retouch