Regret Quotes
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It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.
William Faulkner
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The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.
Norm MacDonald
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Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
Michael Curtiz
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I am embarrassed about it. I am very sorry about it, all right?
Jack Straw
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I'm never afraid to try something if I think it's funny. And I know I'll regret it if I don't.
Sean William Scott
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In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Obedience is less painful than regret.
Christine Caine
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There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.
Elvis Costello
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I'm not naturally a gifted dancer, and I don't enjoy it. I didn't go to any of those classes in drama school 'cause I was like, "I'm not going to dance. I don't need to learn to dance." I regret that.
Richard Madden
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Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it.
Charles de Saint-Évremond
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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Curiosity began my journey, which led to regret, which brings me always to wonder and dedication.
Christopher Cokinos
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Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.
Bob Hastings
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Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it... that's when you get into trouble
Sarah Dessen
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You can eat beef on a weekly basis and become a genius intuitive if your energy is in present time.You can consume only organic food while running thirty-five miles a day and "om-ing" until dawn, but if your spirit is raging about your history and is saturated in regrets and unfinished business, you won't be able to intuit your left hand from your right.
Caroline Myss
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
Anthony Trollope
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... You are the closest I will ever come to heaven, either here on Earth or in the afterlife, and I will not regret it, not even at the cost of your tears. So I go to my grave an unrepentant sinner, I’m afraid. There is no use in mourning one such as I, dearest... -Simon to Lucy in a letter before the last duel.
Elizabeth Hoyt
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Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a wasted word. It’s an extraordinary achievement: vivid as neon, real as rain. Devastating.
Chaz Brenchley
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If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.
Thomas Sowell
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Love is hurt with jar and fret; Love is made a vague regret.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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She was all he wanted. He would give everything for her. Without thought. Without regret.
Sarah MacLean
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No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.
William Shatner
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There are people who live lives little different than the beasts,and I don't mean that badly. I mean that they accept whatever happens day to day without struggle or question or regret. To them things just are, like the earth and sky and seasons.
Celeste De Blasis