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 ~
It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
~By Jackie Joyner-Kersee ~
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
~By Bodhidharma ~
It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.
~By William Thomas ~
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 ~
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 ~
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
~By Laurence Housman ~
I very much regret that our administration has pushed the whole issue of Kosovo to the back burner.
~By Eliot Engel ~
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 ~
The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Both of us are known for probably at times regrettable streak of independence.
~By David Kay ~
I don't really believe in regrets.
~By Wayne Newton ~
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
~By Jonathan Larson ~
The only things you regret are the things you don't do.
~By Michael Curtiz ~
When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.
~By Kiana Tom ~
I regret all of my books.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
~By Margaret Mead ~
I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?
~By Sarah Ferguson ~
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 ~
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 have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
~By Bobby Knight ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
~By Queen Latifah ~
Regrettably, I do sometimes have to fight a tendency to be bitchy.
~By Marie Windsor ~
There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life.
~By Heather Mills ~
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 ~
The effort required by your endeavor now is not as hard as dealing with your regret later.
~By Mike Hawkins ~
We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.
~By Robert Falcon Scott ~
No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard... and achieving as much as I could.
~By Elena Kagan ~
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 ~
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 was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.
~By Gillian Anderson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again.
~By Alois Brunner ~
I think you always have regrets.
~By Clint Walker ~
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 ~
Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.
~By William Henry Hudson ~
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
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 ~
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 ~
Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.
~By Kelsey Grammer ~
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 don't have a lot of regrets in my life.
~By Cathy Freeman ~
I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!
~By Julian Lennon ~
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 ~
When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
~By Eleanora Duse ~
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 ~
I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
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 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 ~
That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today.
~By David Blunkett ~
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 ~
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 ~
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
~By David Grayson ~
I have no regrets about my life.
~By Jane Badler ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.
~By Liza Minelli ~
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 ~
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
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 ~
Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
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 ~
Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
~By Basil Rathbone ~
I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.
~By Leslie Caron ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.
~By William Hung ~
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