Quotes about regret
regret opportunity space
No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused Charles Dickens
regret sleep insomnia
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret. Charles Caleb Colton
regret done probability
We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.
regret humble errors
As there are some faults that have been termed faults on the right side, so there are some errors that might be denominated errors on the safe side. Thus we seldom regret having been too mild, too cautious, or too humble; but we often repent having been too violent, too precipitate, or too proud.
regret night errors
It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.
regret hair age
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
regret heart men
Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect the leopard to regret the blood with which its fangs are moistened,—as soon might you expect the lion of the wood to abjure his cruel tyranny over the feeble beasts of the plain, as expect the sinner to make any confession, or offer any repentance that shall be accepted of God, unless grace shall first renew the heart. Charles Spurgeon
regret shadow steps
I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret. Alan Moore
regret mistake character
I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it. Al Pacino
regret believe past
Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists. Aiden Wilson Tozer
regret blow moon
But as surely as the moon rises and the sun sets, depravity passes down through the ages, because there is always a gap between who we are and who we should be, and our parents, molested by regret, conceive us under the false hope that we will be better than them, and everything they do, every hug and blow, only makes certain that we never will be. Chris Adrian
regret bored needs
When I get a fringe, it's because I'm bored or need a change; I always regret it! Chloe Sevigny
regret blessing creating
The sun has a sense of all-pervasive brilliance, which does not discriminate in the slightest. It is the goodness that exists in a situation, in oneself, and in one's world, which is expressed without doubt, hesitation, or regret. The sun principle also includes the notion of blessings descending upon us and creating sacred world. It also represents clarity, without doubt. Chogyam Trungpa
regret native-american sea
Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Chief Seattle
regret destiny men
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man ... cannot be exempt from the common destiny.
regret cowardice understood
I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice... China Mieville
regret latin people
One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand these eighteenth-century people, that it was that grounding in Greek and Latin that gave them their sense of the classic virtues: the classic ideals of honor, virtue, the good society, and their historic examples of what they could try to live up to. David McCullough
regret giving another-chance
Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done? David Mitchell
regret opportunity opposites
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. David Knopfler
regret heart silence
You should learn to say nothing that will cause you regret. You should not say what is not in your heart - or what is only in your heart for a moment. But you know this - silence is better. David Guterson
regret feel-better oil
Regret has a purpose. It's like the oil light on the dashboard of your life, telling you something needs to be fixed. So fix it. And feel better. David D. Burns
regret sea beloved-wife
He felt a momentary pang of regret that he had not spent more time with his beloved wife. But it passed when he remembered that the reason he’d gone to sea in the first place was that he had never really liked his beloved wife. Dave Barry
regret done pressure
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. David Talbot
regret imagine salons
I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.
regret home should-have
There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it’s really true: I should have stayed home. David Rakoff
regret offering actors
I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises. Catherine Deneuve
regret want young
Don't wear excessive make-up as you grow older. Young women can wear whatever make-up they want, but if you are older, you will regret it. Carolina Herrera
regret cities wish
It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club. Carlos Tevez
regret college age
I don't regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I'll always be learning - the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise. Caitlin Moran
regret
I don't have a lot of regrets in my life. Cathy Freeman
regret home color
Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the mud, and not wishes at all, but regrets. The trouble is, not everyone can tell when they ought to launder their wishes. Even when one finds oneself in Fairyland and not at home at all, it is not always so easy to remember to catch the world in it's changing and change with it. Catherynne M. Valente
regret wife careful
My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes. Louis C. K.
regret years community
My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes. Madeleine Albright