Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Bezos

The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called – which only a nerd would call – a ‘regret minimization framework’. So I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘Okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.

Jeff Bezos

If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.

Jeff Bezos

Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes.

Jeff Bezos

I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse; for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

Georges Danton

My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing.

George Sand

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

Jeffrey Archer

But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.

Jean-Claude Juncker

I notice with a certain sense of regret that far too many Europeans are returning to a regional and national mindset.

Elvis Costello

There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.

Jason Mraz

I thought I was the center of the world and that my parents had nothing to do with me, and I regret that. I wish I had been a little kinder to my family and been friends with them and let them into my life and shared with them the things I was doing rather than feel like I needed to do my life in secret.

Hillary Clinton

We regret mistakes were made.

Hillary Clinton

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.

Herbert Croly

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

For years afterwards when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills into the places beside his heart. The night when they rode up the slope and watched the cold moon float through the clouds, he lost a further part of him that nothing could restore; and when he lost it he lost also the power of regretting it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

Evan Davis

I don't keep it secret that I live with my partner Gio. I'm very proud of my gayness. But there is lots I wouldn't want the press to write about me... it is a matter of regret that being gay is the most interesting thing about me.

Evan Davis

I rarely come away from presenting the 'Today' programme without some sense of regret. There is always some question that I should have asked, or some point that I should have made. This is annoying but not surprising. Perfection is hard to achieve in a three-hour live programme.

Eva Longoria

I don't regret anything I do, ever, whether articles I've done or things I've said. And as far as what's happened in the past, I wouldn't take anything back.

Eva Longoria

I do not regret getting married nor do I regret getting divorced.

Eugene Jarecki

Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.

Esther Hicks

There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. Every part of your life has unfolded just right.

Esther Hicks

Make the best of where you are and do your best to line up your Energy from where you are, because any bit of struggle or any bit of regret only holds your cork under the water and doesn't allow you to connect with the Energy that would allow anything to improve.

Ernest Hemingway

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

Ethel Merman

Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret

Jhumpa Lahiri

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

Groucho Marx

I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.

Gregory David Roberts

you can't kill love. you can't even kill it with hate. you can kill in-love, and loving, and even loveliness. you can kill them all, or numb them into dense, leaden regret, but you can't kill love itself. love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever. every act of love, every moment of the heart reaching out, is a part of the universal good: it's a part of God, or what we call God, and it can never die.

Ian Somerhalder

We will, at some point, reflect back at our rampant acceptance of speciesism with profound regret. Our journey to understanding that all demonstrations of life possess equal value is a slow and harrowing one.

Iain Banks

One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.

Howard Zinn

I have no regrets about my political activity, only that I sometimes got carried away with it and didn't find the right balance between obligations to my family and my need to be involved in social movements.

George Best

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for 10 more years.

Gena Showalter

Tabitha blinked innocently. "Why is your consort speaking to me without my having addressed him first?" she asked Kaia. "Have you not taught him the proper order of things?" So the little man wasn't supposed to speak to the women folk without an invitation? Screw that. "Just stay out of my head, Harpy, or I'll make sure you regret it. By the way, how's the leg?" She hissed at him. Win!