Regret Quotes
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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.
Amanda Lear
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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.
James Russell Lowell
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Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
Alphonse Karr
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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.
Paul Wolfowitz
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If you compromise and hire someone mediocre, you will always regret it.
Sam Altman
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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
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
Emile Zola
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This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites. It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that, according to this new data, flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean
Najib Razak
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I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I regret the narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.
Abigail Adams
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When I like something, I wear it into the ground, then really regret it.
Jamie Hince
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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.
Henry David Thoreau
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I've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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Nothing is more frustrating to me than putting a song on an album and regret putting it on there. I'm excited that there are no songs on 'Tailgates & Tanlines' that I'm iffy about.
Luke Bryan
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We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret.
Andrew Heyward
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I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.
Keren Ann
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We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed.
Bernard Ebbers
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There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.
Frank Luntz
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I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.
Neil Kinnock
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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.
John Corey Whaley
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But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.
Robert Falcon Scott
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Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.
David Knopfler Dire Straits
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I haven't got the yacht any more. The cost of running it was crazy. But it was so much fun while I had it. I don't regret it.
Jenson Button
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I'll teach my kids right from wrong, but I'm never going to teach them that they can't have fun. They'll make mistakes; they'll do things they regret, like we all have.
Louise Nurding