Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?
~By Peter Matthiessen ~
It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.
~By Henry Addington ~
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 ~
I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.
~By Francesca Annis ~
There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There's a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area. But I have been able to bring to my family the richness of being a journalist.
~By Judy Woodruff ~
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
~By Norman Borlaug ~
Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.
~By David Talbot ~
You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.
~By Kim Kardashian ~
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
~By Lucille Ball ~
Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.
~By Kiana Tom ~
I've no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.
~By Ron Moody ~
I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.
~By Dan Quayle ~
I don't have any regrets. When I quit college and moved to Los Angeles to become an actress, it was so that I would not look back and have any regrets.
~By Amy Weber ~
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 ~
The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
~By Mason Cooley ~
I never regretted what I turned down.
~By Angela Lansbury ~
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 ~
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.
~By Mary Wortley ~
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
~By Herbert Croly ~
I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.
~By Debbie Harry ~
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
~By Edith Wharton ~
I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.
~By Bob Newhart ~
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.
~By William Hung ~
I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.
~By Michael Caine ~
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
~By Fulton Oursler ~
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 ~
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
~By Charles Dickens ~
You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.
~By Martin Landau ~
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 ~
I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.
~By Drew Barrymore ~
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
~By Neil Armstrong ~
You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.
~By George Armstrong Custer ~
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
~By Nathan Hale ~
Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.
~By John Major ~
I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.
~By Ty Cobb ~
Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.
~By Jared Harris ~
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.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.
~By Keren Ann ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
~By Bette Davis ~
We ran three cars last year. Unfortunately, as time went on, we did have to let a few people go, which we regretted, but just because of the situation.
~By Bobby Rahal ~
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 am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
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 ~
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
~By Emile Zola ~
I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism.
~By Mathias Rust ~
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 ~
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 ~
I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
Regrettably, I do sometimes have to fight a tendency to be bitchy.
~By Marie Windsor ~
Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.
~By Cordell Hull ~
I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.
~By Tab Hunter ~
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
~By Zachary Taylor ~
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.
~By Sun Myung Moon ~
Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
~By Basil Rathbone ~
Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.
~By Shania Twain ~
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 effort required by your endeavor now is not as hard as dealing with your regret later.
~By Mike Hawkins ~
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 ~
Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
~By Miguel Angel Ruiz ~
By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.
~By Donald Cram ~
As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.
~By Julie Christie ~
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
~By Helen Rowland ~
When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
~By Eleanora Duse ~
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
~By Robert E. Lee ~
We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.
~By David Gill ~
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today.
~By David Blunkett ~
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
~By John Barrymore ~
My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.
~By Perry Como ~
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
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 ~
Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.
~By Armand Hammer ~
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
~By Lucy Maud Montgomery ~
No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
I don't have a lot of regrets in my life.
~By Cathy Freeman ~
I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.
~By Rita Mero ~
When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
~By James Madison ~
I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
~By Bobby Knight ~
Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.
~By Kelsey Grammer ~
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 ~
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 ~
To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.
~By Adolf Eichmann ~
Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him.
~By Robert Creeley ~
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
Both of us are known for probably at times regrettable streak of independence.
~By David Kay ~
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 ~
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
~By Jim Rohn ~
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