Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank O'Hara

I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. It's more important to confirm the least sincere. The clouds get enough attention as it is...

Christopher Galvin

While we very much regret the impact this will have on certain employees, we must adjust our production capacity to the reality of current business conditions and reduce costs to improve overall financial performance.

Christian Louboutin

I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.

Francesca Annis

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.

Francesca Annis

I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

Francesca Annis

I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

George Wald

There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals were medical students. Graduate students were even better. In the old days, if you offered a graduate student a thiamine-deficient diet, he gladly went on it, for that was the only way he could eat. Science is getting to be more and more difficult.

George Washington

Differences in political opinions are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary; but it is exceedingly to be regretted that subjects cannot be discussed with temper on the one hand, or decisions submitted to without having the motives, which led to them, improperly implicated on the other; and this regret borders on chagrin when we find that men of abilities, zealous patriots, having the same general objects in view, and the same upright intentions to prosecute them, will not exercise more charity in deciding on the opinions and actions of one another.

George Santayana

There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us ashamed of ourselves when it was happening: there is a pleasant panoramic sense of what it all was and how it all had to be. Why, if we are not vain or snobbish, need we desire that it should have been different? The better things we missed may yet be enjoyed or attained by someone else somewhere: why isn't that just as good? And there is no regret, either, in the sense of wishing the past to return, or missing it: it is quite real enough as it is, there at its own date and place

George McGovern

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

George Orwell

A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?

George Muller

When the day of recompense comes, our only regret will be that we have done so little for Him, not that we have done too much.

Jeanette Winterson

Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.

Jim Carrey

I like challenges and I don't believe in failure. I don't believe in regrets. I believe suffering, failure - all those concepts - are things that are absolutely necessary to make us the best people that we can be, the best at whatever we want to do.

Jim Carrey

I come from the philosophy of: "Whatever happens to me is the greatest thing that could happen, no matter what." Sometimes in the moment I have a regret, but then I have found myself every time down the line saying to myself: "I wouldn't be here if it weren't for that so called failure."

Jim Carrey

Usually you regret the things you say no to.

Jewel

Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery, and you shall live a life uncommon.

Jen Kirkman

People said to me, "You know, when you record a special, you're going to regret it. The one thing you'll regret because you're a comic is you'll think of better tags."

Francoise Sagan

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.

Christian Slater

I did regret not graduating high school, but I made a point of going back and getting my GED later. It was important for my kids.

Chrissy Teigen

Some days I regret wording things the way I did in the heat of the moment.

Chrissy Teigen

I regret things all the time. I've never regretted not saying something. I've only regretted saying something.

Chris Kyle

MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.

George W. Bush

I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways.

Garth Brooks

I've lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed.

Fernando Pessoa

There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.

Fay Wray

Only in your imagination can you revise.

Federico Fellini

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

Federico Garcia Lorca

I'm afraid to be on this shore a trunk without limbs, and what I most regret is not to have flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my suffering.

Eugene Mirman

You know how sometimes when you're drunk you say something you sort of regret... to Ace Frehley?

Francis Bacon

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

Jennifer Connelly

I had enough time being single to know I have no regrets about being married!