I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.
~By Katherine Mansfield ~
But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret.
~By Ethel Merman ~
I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.
~By Richard E. Grant ~
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
~By Neil Armstrong ~
Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
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.
~By William Shatner ~
People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.
~By Laurie Anderson ~
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
~By Adam Clarke ~
Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
~By Basil Rathbone ~
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
~By William Hazlitt ~
I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.
~By Leslie Caron ~
If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.
~By Bram Fischer ~
No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
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.
~By Corin Nemec ~
I have a beautiful son, I don't regret it, I'm very proud of the way that we handle our relationship and the way that we keep our son first and that's our priority.
~By Nia Long ~
I can honestly say that I regret nothing... like I said I have the best of both worlds.
~By Kim Smith ~
I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.
~By John Major ~
As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
~By Stephen Fry ~
So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
~By Harold Acton ~
I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.
~By Eva Longoria ~
I do not regret one moment of my life.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
~By Jim Rohn ~
There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.
~By Frank Luntz ~
Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.
~By Jack Abramoff ~
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
~By George Sand ~
I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn't I become an actress? or Why did I just go paddling along after John? I've always walked along right by his side, and he's always supported everything I do.
~By June Carter Cash ~
A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.
~By Kenko Yoshida ~
Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.
~By David Knopfler ~
My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.
~By Joseph Epstein ~
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.
~By Francis Parker Yockey ~
With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn't use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.
~By Bernhard Goetz ~
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
~By Arthur Miller ~
I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.
~By Julie Christie ~
We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
~By Fulton Oursler ~
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
~By Lucille Ball ~
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
~By Sivananda ~
The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again.
~By Alois Brunner ~
I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.
~By Ben Nicholson ~
Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.
~By Leif Garrett ~
I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.
~By Andrew Greeley ~
Consequently, I won just about everything I set out to win, everything bar the World Cup, of course. But even now, I don't regret that, because I was part of a team which twice reached the semi-finals.
~By Michel Patini ~
Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.
~By Kiana Tom ~
When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
~By Eleanora Duse ~
I don't really believe in regrets.
~By Wayne Newton ~
There are no regrets in life, just lessons.
~By Jennifer Aniston ~
I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
My part had three lines. I said, 'You look wonderful, sir,' three times. All my friends said, 'Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life.' I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once.
~By Jeffrey Tambor ~
Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.
~By Edward Teller ~
So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled.
~By Daniel Greenberg ~
The only things you regret are the things you don't do.
~By Michael Curtiz ~
I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.
~By Charles Schumer ~
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.
~By Fulton Oursler ~
I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.
~By Augusto Pinochet ~
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions.
~By Anita Hill ~
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
~By Bodhidharma ~
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
~By Mick Jagger ~
I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.
~By Marc Maron ~
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
~By Barbara Bush ~
Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.
~By Vladimir Putin ~
But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views.
~By Stephen Cohen ~
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
~By David Grayson ~
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
~By Francoise Sagan ~
A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.
~By Charles Goodyear ~
When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it.
~By Margo MacDonald ~
In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.
~By John C. Calhoun ~
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
~By Peabo Bryson ~
I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.
~By David Talbot ~
People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.
~By Marcel Dionne ~
Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.
~By Mary McCarthy ~
I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.
~By Van Morrison ~
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
~By Jonathan Larson ~
If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.
~By Cliff Richard ~
I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.
~By Darren Aronofsky ~
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
~By Robert Brault ~
Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.
~By Ike Turner ~
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
~By Nathan Hale ~
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
~By George Sand ~
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again.
~By Jake Gyllenhaal ~
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.
~By Patti Smith ~
I do not have time to sit down and regret anything although sometimes I wish I had been able to see more of my parents while they were alive and have done more for them.
~By Roger Moore ~
As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
~By Zachary Scott ~
Regrettably, I do sometimes have to fight a tendency to be bitchy.
~By Marie Windsor ~
The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
~By Barbara Ehrenreich ~
Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.
~By Kim Wilde ~
Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.
~By John Pople ~
My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
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.
~By Benjamin F. Wade ~
I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.
~By Gladys Knight ~
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
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