Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelsey Grammer

While it is tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took.

Kelsey Grammer

Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

Kathryn Schulz

Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are.

Kathryn Schulz

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better.

Kathryn Schulz

We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesen't remind us what we did badly, it reminds us what we know we could do better.

Kathryn Schulz

If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

Kathryn Schulz

The point isn’t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.

Katherine Mansfield

Regret is an appalling waste of time.

Katherine Mansfield

Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it.

Katherine Mansfield

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

Kate Chopin

There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.

Karen White

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

Karen Thompson Walker

Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?

Julian Barnes

When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret. When you are old, you become impatient with the way in which the young applaud the most insignificant improvements … while remaining heedless of the world’s barbarism. I don’t say things have got worse; I merely say the young wouldn’t notice if they had. The old times were good because then we were young, and ignorant of how ignorant the young can be.

Ken Jennings

We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a 'cyborg,' not a 'robot.'

Keith Murray

I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.

Keith Olbermann

There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But he still says so. There was no link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaida. But he still says so. And thus, gripping firmly these figments of his own imagination, Mr. Cheney lives on, in defiance, and spreads - around him and before him - darkness, like some contagion of fear. They are never wrong, and they never regret - admirable in a French torch singer, cataclysmic in an American leader.

Keith Richards

I don't regret nuthin...

Katrina Kaif

I live my life with no regrets. Each decision of mine has define my life in a certain way

Kevin Pietersen

I always say that things are meant to be and everything happens for a reason, so I don't have any regrets.

Keren Ann

I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.

Keren Ann

I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.

Ken Watanabe

Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!

Irvin D. Yalom

One thing I feel clear about is that it's important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven't really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won't look back upon my forties with regret.

Imre Lakatos

Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.

Ike Turner

I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

Ike Turner

Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

I can scarcely fancy myself to ask a superior to publish a volume of my verse and I own that humanly there is very little likelihood of that ever coming to pass. And to be sure if I chose to look at things on one side and not the other I could of course regret this bitterly. But there is more peace and it isthe holier lot to be unknown than to be known.

Harry Reid

I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words.

Harry S Truman

Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time.

Harry S Truman

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language, which I used in my letter of Aug 29 to Congress McDonough concerning the Marine Corps...

J. K. Rowling

One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic

H. L. Mencken

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.