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 regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.
~By Leslie Caron ~
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 ~
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
~By Ogden Nash ~
Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret.
~By Ethel Merman ~
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 ~
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 ~
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'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner.
~By David Carradine ~
Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.
~By Ethel Waters ~
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 ~
The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
~By Neil Armstrong ~
I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
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 ~
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
~By Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~
I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.
~By Francesca Annis ~
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
~By J. Paul Getty ~
The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again.
~By Alois Brunner ~
Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
I was a complete loon, but I don't regret a bit of it.
~By Rhona Mitra ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.
~By Robert Toombs ~
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
~By Arthur Miller ~
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 ~
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 ~
I have no regrets. I've got my health.
~By Naomi Campbell ~
Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
~By Ralph W. Sockman ~
I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.
~By Tina Turner ~
I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
~By Peter Gallagher ~
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
~By Charles Dickens ~
There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.
~By Robbie Williams ~
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
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 ~
I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.
~By Keren Ann ~
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.
~By Kelsey Grammer ~
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 ~
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 ~
I very much regret that our administration has pushed the whole issue of Kosovo to the back burner.
~By Eliot Engel ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
~By Edith Wharton ~
The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
~By Daniel Craig ~
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
~By Nathan Hale ~
I think you always have regrets.
~By Clint Walker ~
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
~By Lucy Maud Montgomery ~
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 ~
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
~By William Hazlitt ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don't know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It's such a hard job to have. I don't have any regrets about it.
~By Diane Kruger ~
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
~By Truman Capote ~
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 ~
I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
~By Ingrid Bergman ~
I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.
~By Debbie Harry ~
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
~By Herbert Croly ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
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 ~
One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities.
~By Fred F. Fielding ~
I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.
~By Rory Cochrane ~
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
~By Jean Rostand ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.
~By Leif Garrett ~
I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.
~By Gladys Knight ~
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 really believe in regrets.
~By Wayne Newton ~
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
~By John Barrymore ~
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 ~
Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.
~By Armand Hammer ~
Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.
~By Al D'Amato ~
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 ~
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.
~By Keren Ann ~
My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish.
~By Henry Darrow ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud that I was able to do what I did - psychologically it was a great wall to climb - but sometimes I regret it.
~By Mathias Rust ~
I do not regret one moment of my life.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
There are no regrets in life, just lessons.
~By Jennifer Aniston ~
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