Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Faraday

Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such hindrances to the progress of science should exist. I cannot help thinking it a most unfortunate thing that men who as experimentalists & philosophers are the most fitted to advance the general cause of science & knowledge should by promulgation of their own theoretical views under the form of nomenclature, notation, or scale, actually retard its progress.

Michael McKean

I never regret anything and I don't believe in regret. I think it's just a big time-waster.

Michael Ian Black

I'm enough of an optimist and a patriot to believe that in U.S. you have a lot of opportunity and can do pretty much anything you want in some form. For me, the idea of failure is far preferable to the idea of regret.

Eric Avery

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

James Altucher

Don't regret your mistakes. You'll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.

James Altucher

You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.

Jake Bugg

I drink to remember I smoke to forget / Some things to be proud of, some stuff to regret.

Jake Pavelka

My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.

Jake Gyllenhaal

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.

Jake Gyllenhaal

In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.

Henry Rollins

Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it is a luxury I can not afford. Anything I did, that was bad or wrong or regretful, I stand accused, I am guilty and I'm ready to serve my time.

Henry B. Eyring

If we choose the right, we will find happiness-in time. If we choose evil, there comes sorrow and regret-in time. Those effects are sure. Yet they are often delayed for a purpose. If the blessings were immediate, choosing the right would not build faith. And since sorrow is also sometimes greatly delayed, it takes faith to feel the need to seek forgiveness for sin early rather than after we feel its sorrowful and painful effects.

Henry A. Kissinger

If a Chinese plane landed at Los Angeles Airport having just bought down an American military plane, he wouldn't be permitted to leave the next day. So then we developed a framework which should have been acceptable as a concept to the Chinese, namely to express regret for the loss of life and maintain our position that we had a right to fly these missions.

Heather Mills

There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life.

Mary Ellen Chase

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.

Pablo Neruda

Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress? Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? Who hears the regrets of the thieving automobile? Is there anything in the world sadder than a train standing in the rain?

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important.

Laura Marling

There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in

Laini Taylor

As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret...

Lisa McMann

I highly regret this day in advance.

Lisa Kleypas

If I never have anything from him except this one moment I am going to take it. Take it now, or drown in regret later.

Lisa Kleypas

I understood finally that the thing I should have feared most was not loss, but never loving. The price for safety was the regret I felt at this moment. And yet I would have to live with it for the rest of my life

Lisa Kleypas

Having regrets is the only sign that you’ve done anything interesting with your life.

John Travolta

I don't believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.

James Hutton

To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns the valley or the mountain: but to a naturalist who is reading in the face of the rocks the annals of a former world, the mossy covering which obstructs his view, and renders indistinguishable the different species of stone, is no less than a serious subject of regret.

James Joyce

A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.

James Simpson

Don't regret growing older...remember that a lot of sugar is to be found at the bottom of the cup.

James Russell Lowell

Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!

James Fenton

Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to free verse is a crash course in villanelles, sestinas and other such fixed forms. But most...are rare in English poetry. Few poets have written a villanelle worth reading, or indeed regret not having done so.

Laura Fraser

You can't regret a whole period in your life. . . . It's part of who you are, one of your stories.

Lamar Odom

I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful.

Friedrich Schiller

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.

George Galloway

Only a fool has no regrets and I'm not a fool.