Regret Quotes
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You make it all sound so simple. Run your guts out...collapse at the finish, throw up, that makes a good runner. Sounds like you regret not being more like Prefontaine....Everyone gripes to me that American marathoners are 'lazy-no-good-for-nothings'. My point is, many people have criticisms, but few have valid answers. I'd like to know what happened to the guys that kicked my ass in high school.
Keith Brantly
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I sincerely regret my actions in the game (Wednesday).
Delmon Young
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Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.
William Benton Clulow
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The past is littered with regret, the future bound by anxiety. The time is always now.
Eric Van Lustbader
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How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.
Vita Sackville-West
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I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.
Alexandre Dumas
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We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.
Baltasar Gracian
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A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.
Hermann Hesse
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My one big regret is that I didn't play on for ten more years.
George Best
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It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered.
Paul Davies
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As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
H. Rider Haggard
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That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.
Shawn Fanning
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I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.
Will Ferrell
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I will always love you Drizzt Do'Urden my life was full and without regret because I knew you and was completed by you. Sleep well, my love.
R. A. Salvatore
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No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.
Esther Williams
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One may oppose immigration. It is an opinion of one's own. But questioning the dignity of an immigrant is unacceptable. (...) I have not seen that these people the leaders of the Finns Party who have been convicted exactly of insulting dignity would have shown efficient regretting.
Sauli Niinisto
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I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think Mr. Coppola made the right choice. The Julia Roberts role in 'Pretty Woman' held a bizarre allure for me. But, it's silly to look back with regret.
Eric Stoltz
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I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think Mr. Coppola made the right choice. The Julia Roberts role in 'Pretty Woman' held a bizarre allure for me. But, it's silly to look back with regret.
Eric Stoltz
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I regret not dancing more, just cutting loose on the dance floor. I still admire those who don't care much about what others think of them.
Neil Patrick Harris
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My big regret is that my brother and I didn't start doing what we did like, 10 years before. I feel like then we would have sold some records. We started pretty late - I was 27 when our first album came out.
Eleanor Friedberger
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There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention.
Helen Keller
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I have always lived my life exactly as I wanted. I've tried to please no one but myself... but I'm entirely content. I can sit back in my old age and not regret a single moment, not wish to change a single thing. It's what I wish for you...a life with no regrets.
Katharine Hepburn
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To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.
Anthony Malcolm Daniels
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It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.
William Faulkner