Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Talbot

I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.

David Rakoff

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.

Catherine Deneuve

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.

Carolina Herrera

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.

Carlos Tevez

It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club.

Caitlin Moran

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.

Cathy Freeman

I don't have a lot of regrets in my life.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists.

Chris Adrian

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.

Chloe Sevigny

When I get a fringe, it's because I'm bored or need a change; I always regret it!

Chogyam Trungpa

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.

Chief Seattle

Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

Chief Seattle

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.

China Mieville

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...

Cheryl Strayed

She tried to think of what to say to make it all better again, or at least the way it was before she'd made her confession, though she didn't regret having confessed. Perhaps that was what had been wrong with her all along. Now that the lie wasn't between them anymore, maybe she could love him again.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Each time I changed, it was as if, on purpose, I didn't want anyone to know too much about me, which of course now I regret, because I closed myself to everything. But it was my way of dealing with things.

Charles Baudelaire

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

Charlie Kaufman

Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.

Charlie Kaufman

The passionate ones, the ones who go after what they want, may not get what they want, but they remain vital, in touch with themselves, and when they lie on their deathbeds, they have few regrets.

Charlie Munger

Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t mix in the hard-to-measure stuff that may be more important. That is a mistake I’ve tried all my life to avoid, and I have no regrets for having done that.

Charlie Munger

I don't spend much time regretting the past, once I've taken my lesson from it. I don't dwell on it.

Charles Schumer

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.

Charles Goodyear

A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

Charles Frazier

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

Bob Casey, Jr.

I was just walking around like a zombie..I really had no idea what I was doing.. But the best thing that I did do was leave and get the hell out of there. I have no regrets.

Louis C. K.

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.

Madeleine Albright

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.

Bill Ayers

I don't regret setting bombs.

Bessie Coleman

If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets.

Beth Moore

To overcome prejudice, we can boldly speak against it and teach our children total intolerance for it. We can get to know one another; when we do so, the stereotypes that impede relationships will fall away. Finally, we can express regret to others for past prejudicial sins and ask God to forgive us and change our thinking.

Bernard Tschumi

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

Bernard of Clairvaux

True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.

Bjorn Borg

I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.