Regret Quotes
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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?
Emile Zola
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You always regret upsetting people needlessly.
Mary Beard
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I thought that NASA didn't take biologists and so nothing would come of it. But I knew I would regret it if I did not apply.
Kathleen Rubins
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Everyone in life faces obstacles. That's what made me who I am. I don't regret to have been bullied because probably if I would not have faced those obstacles I would not have been the man that I am. It make my stronger in a way and it helped me to forge the person that I am right now.
Georges St-Pierre
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I don't regret anything, because I feel better every year, and if I'd done something different, maybe I wouldn't. I'm more of a whole person, the older I get.
John Cameron Mitchell
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I have no regrets - in fact, I am pleased to have expelled the US ambassador, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and to have closed the US military base in Bolivia. Now, without a US ambassador, there is less conspiracy, and more political stability and social stability. Without the International Monetary Fund, we are better off economically.
Evo Morales
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In doing my podcast, I do find that I tend to try out bits that I then try on stage later that day. If they work, great, and if they don't, I regret having talked about it on the podcast.
Kurt Braunohler
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I do not regret having done 'Game of Thrones,' but I have nothing to say. I understood neither the series nor its success when I was attending. The experience was very strange; it passed under my nose.
Stephen Dillane
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I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.
Benjamin F. Wade
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To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.
Adolf Eichmann
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Never look back to the past, never regret, even if there is emptiness ahead.' But I couldn't help it. Sometimes I would rather look back if it meant that I could feel something in my heart, even something sad. Sadness was better than emptiness.
Xiaolu Guo
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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.
Peter Gallagher
Tufts Beelzebubs
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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.
Louise Erdrich
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The French people have expressed their choice. They have ultimately preferred not to support the Treaty establishing the European Constitution. I evidently respect their choice, but I also regret it an equal measure of sincerity. Europe needs its people, but each one of us also needs her. Europe is, above all, a venture of hope.
Javier Solana
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I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.
Albert Camus
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I don't have regret about things I've done that are successful or not successful or what people perceive or don't know or whatever. I just know for me it had to be the right choice at the time. Sometimes that choice is just about getting a job.
Mark Harmon
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I only regret I have but one live to give for my country.
Nathan Hale
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If we want happiness, I think we should follow classic Greek wisdom and live with areté. The word directly translates as 'excellence' or 'virtue,' but has a deeper meaning — something closer to 'expressing the highest version of ourselves.' When we're showing up fully moment to moment, there's no room for regret/anxiety/disillusionment, just a whole lot of happiness. Here's to getting our areté on!
Brian Francis Johnson
AC/DC
