Regret Quotes
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Much as I venerate the name of Newton, I am not obliged to believe that he was infallible. I see ... with regret that he was liable to err, and that his authority has, perhaps, sometimes even retarded the progress of science.
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Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.
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I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don't look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever.
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As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.
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It is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.
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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.
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I love swimming in the darker seas, so even if I play a noble guy (well, like Lincoln for instance) I am pre-disposed to try and show the conflict; the regret; the less-than-perfect choices that any human faces. That's what I like and it seems to be what the camera likes to see me do.
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I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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There's a lot of things I could've done better, and I regret not doing better. I do know I always gave it my best shot.
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Regret not that which is past; and trust not to thine own righteousness.
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I got a regret: That I started acting so late. I was 27, and guys who start at 18 or so, there's this kinda continuity of friendships they form in the profession by startin' young, I've never had that.
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Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.
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I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'Abolish the GLC', because I think it would be a major saving and would have released massive resources for more productive use.
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Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
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If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.
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I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: My son did this to me. I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: I forgive my son. Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand.
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If I had more time, I could've utilized the stage more and turned it into my own but since I used all my energy writing and producing songs, my mind was blank when it came to my performances. That's what I regret the most.
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I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.
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I have been urging the leaders to listen to the aspirations and challenges of their own people, and engage in dialogue and take very bold measures. Normally, to their regret, these measures and bold reforms come too late, too little.
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It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club.
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Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.
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A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.
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Live your life so that you’ll have no regrets. No matter how hard, no matter how sad, if something is precious to you, protect it with both arms.
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Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret.
