Regret Quotes
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Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
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Many a husband lives to regret the extravagant fee he bestowed upon the minister who sentenced him.
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My only regret is to die four pages too soon.
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I don't believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.
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As for the healing, that comes from the writing, from living and writing. That's my catharsis. That's why I never regret sharing because it's part of my healing!
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There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But he still says so. There was no link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaida. But he still says so. And thus, gripping firmly these figments of his own imagination, Mr. Cheney lives on, in defiance, and spreads - around him and before him - darkness, like some contagion of fear. They are never wrong, and they never regret - admirable in a French torch singer, cataclysmic in an American leader.
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Regret is unnecessary. Think before you act.
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I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
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I know very well that to admit to loving Bright Eyes is to admit to having an overgrown brain region devoted to self-pity, sentimentality, regret, and a handful of other not very appealing emotional states.
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Where is my guilt? I can regret. I can regret that I made the party film, `Triumph of the Will,' in 1934. But I cannot regret that I lived in that time. No anti-Semitic word has ever crossed my lips. I was never anti-Semitic. I did not join the party. So where then is my guilt? You tell me. I have thrown no atomic bombs. I have never betrayed anyone. What am I guilty of?
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I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.
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Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.
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I do have a very deep sense of regret that there was a conflict and that people lost their lives, and you know, many were responsible for that - and a lot of them wear pinstripe suits in London today.
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You know what the most destructive force in the universe is? Regret.
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That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today.
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My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.
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Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to free verse is a crash course in villanelles, sestinas and other such fixed forms. But most...are rare in English poetry. Few poets have written a villanelle worth reading, or indeed regret not having done so.
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That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.
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He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul.
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It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.
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I truly don't believe in regret.
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I went through college while working a full-time manual-labor job, and I don't regret a minute of it; it was a great learning experience.
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I don't regret anything, but that doesn't mean that I don't look back and think, 'What was I thinking?'
