Regret Quotes
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My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.
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The Germans told me 'We're going to conquer the world!' and I don't regret working with a German record company at all, because for my career it was great, but they wanted to control me, direct me and restrict me. They wanted absolute discipline and that's not the life for me, so after a few years of that I wanted out.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.
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I regret waiting until my mid-twenties to really start seeing the world. I think I should have taken more risks when I was younger and worried less about being ready to grow up.
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First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him.
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...the importance of leadership and what it consists of: not lecturing and posturing and demanding, but demonstrating that your friends will be protected and taken care of, that your enemies will be punished, and that those who refuse to support you will regret having done so.
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You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.
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Above all, I regret that scientific experiments-some of them mine-should have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul, but not guilt.
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If there are men who regret the Good Old Times, without too clear a notion of what they were, they should at least be thankful that we are rid of that misguided energy of faith which justifies conscience in making men unrelentingly cruel.
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I regret the narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.
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I certainly have no regret living in the U.S. The quality of life in Australia is good, but it is bloody good here as well.
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I've got my feet on the ground because I've got a lovely family waiting for me when I get home, even though they're not my flesh and blood. I haven't got children. That's my only regret, I suppose.
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I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.
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Teenage girls are extremists who see the world in black-and- white terms, missing shades of gray. Life is either marvelous or notworth living. School is either pure torment or is going fantastically. Other people are either great or horrible, and they themselves are wonderful or pathetic failures. One day a girl will refer to herself as "the goddess of social life" and the next day she'll regret that she's the "ultimate in nerdosity.
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I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.
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I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.
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The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.
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If you compromise and hire someone mediocre, you will always regret it.
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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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You know how sometimes when you're drunk you say something you sort of regret... to Ace Frehley?
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I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.
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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
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I've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.
