I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.
~By Debbie Harry ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
~By Truman Capote ~
I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
~By Bobby Knight ~
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
~By Edith Wharton ~
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 ~
So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
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 ~
The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I'm going to regret it.
~By Scott Caan ~
In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
~By Karl Rove ~
Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.
~By Marty Meehan ~
There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life.
~By Heather Mills ~
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
~By Bodhidharma ~
My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.
~By Denis Leary ~
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 ~
I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
~By Queen Latifah ~
Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.
~By Al D'Amato ~
It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
I regret all of my books.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
There are no regrets in life, just lessons.
~By Jennifer Aniston ~
Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.
~By Kiana Tom ~
As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
~By Zachary Scott ~
My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.
~By Jonathan Coe ~
Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
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 ~
There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.
~By Jude Law ~
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 ~
A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.
~By Charles Goodyear ~
It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.
~By Brian Mulroney ~
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
~By Woody Allen ~
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
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 ~
I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
~By Lucille Ball ~
I very much regret that our administration has pushed the whole issue of Kosovo to the back burner.
~By Eliot Engel ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.
~By Jared Harris ~
It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.
~By William Thomas ~
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 don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.
~By Gladys Knight ~
I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.
~By Ty Cobb ~
The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again.
~By Alois Brunner ~
Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret.
~By Ethel Merman ~
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.
~By William Hung ~
To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.
~By Thomas Harrison ~
I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.
~By Gillian Anderson ~
Both of us are known for probably at times regrettable streak of independence.
~By David Kay ~
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
~By Tallulah Bankhead ~
That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor.
~By Scott McCallum ~
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
~By Alexander Graham Bell ~
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 ~
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
~By Jim Rohn ~
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
~By Lucille Ball ~
He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.
~By Douglas Reed ~
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 ~
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 ~
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
~By David Grayson ~
That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today.
~By David Blunkett ~
Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.
~By Kelsey Grammer ~
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 ~
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 ~
I shall have less cause to regret the carrying my intended purpose into effect, foreseeing that you may immediately fill with advantage, the vacancy which will presently happen.
~By Henry Laurens ~
I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
~By J. Edgar Hoover ~
I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.
~By Tab Hunter ~
I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.
~By Walter Cronkite ~
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 ~
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 ~
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and although I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
~By Carly Fiorina ~
I have no regrets. I've got my health.
~By Naomi Campbell ~
While I have some regrets that this is my last opportunity to deliver a State of the State address, I appreciate and am humbled by the opportunities this great state has given me.
~By Jane D. Hull ~
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
~By Henry James ~
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 ~
I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
~By Nancy Pelosi ~
I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.
~By Keren Ann ~
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 ~
My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
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 ~
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
~By Emile Zola ~
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 ~
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
~By Lucy Maud Montgomery ~
I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism.
~By Mathias Rust ~
It's not like he called me up and asked me. They've never wanted to throw us into that world, and I think our decision probably shocked them. But I love my dad, and I think I'd regret it if I didn't do this.
~By Jenna Bush ~
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 ~
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.
~By Shawn Fanning ~
Of course I do not regret the Bond days, I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent.
~By Roger Moore ~
Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one.
~By Theodor Herzl ~
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