Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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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 -
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 -
I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.
F. Sionil Jose -
I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.
Tao Lin -
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
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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 -
It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there’s no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.
Jack McDevitt -
My biggest regret is rolling in regret. It is best to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and move on.
Andie MacDowell -
One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities.
Fred F. Fielding -
I lived in the States from 1996 till 2000. I attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1997. But I wasn't the most hard-working student. I rarely went to school. At that time, I seriously doubted that you could learn creativity in school. Music isn't something you can just learn from other people. Sometimes I regret missing classes.
Psy
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I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.
Drew Barrymore -
Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
Don Miguel Ruiz -
My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes.
Louis C. K. -
Honestly, I regret not having spanked my kids.
Kenya Barris -
I had no regret to the 'cuchi-cuchi' show. It showed me the way to the bank. It's a gimmick. It's fun. It has nothing to do with sex... it's energy and fun... If it wasn't for 'cuchi-cuchi,' I would be selling tomatoes in Tijuana.
María del Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza -
We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.
David Gill
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You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.
Dale Carnegie -
In all the huge and amazing and infinitely varied world--there is only one you.
Marianne Williamson -
We have a lot of societal problems that we have to fix in the 1990s.
Letitia Baldrige -
Innovation is a necessity.
Chanda Kochhar -
I grew up in a Navy family.
Elizabeth Edwards -
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle