Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harold Acton

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

Jim Butcher

The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.

Jay-Z

And through our travels we get separated, never forget: In order to survive, got to learn to live with regrets.

Moby

I was trying to convince myself I could learn to be gay - but no. That's one of my great regrets.

Moby

But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed.

Mickey Rooney

I don't regret anything I've ever done. I only wish I could have done more.

Kim Wilde

The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.

Kieron Dyer

He treated me like a son and I let him down. I must take some responsibility for him getting the sack. I regret letting him down so much.

Kim Basinger

When I'm old I'm never going to say,I didn't do this or, I regret that. I'm going to say,I don't regret a damn thing. I came, I went, and I did it all.

Kevin Costner

I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

Kenneth Turan

Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere arrived at with difficulty and left with regret.

Kathleen Hanna

I belive power can be used for good, I don't think every form of power is absolute evil. I wish I would have stepped in, and I really regret it. And that's why I really encourage young people who are organizing to speak up.

Julia Child

I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

Jude Law

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

Josh Duhamel

Everybody's got regrets. It's a personal choice as to whether or not you can change.

Josh Duhamel

Everybody's got regrets. Everybody's made mistakes. Nobody's perfect.

Kristin Cavallari

I don't really regret anything in my life.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

Kristin Hannah

One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.

K'naan

I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

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.

Grace Kelly

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.

J. R. Moehringer

Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When we think of all the things we want to do with our other half the answer should be simple; we should want to do absolutely everything with them. We should want to experience everything, feel everything, see everything with no one but them by our sides. When we look back on our lives it's not the things we did do with them that we'll regret, it's the things we didn't do.

Jennie Garth

My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

Jeanne Calment

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

Jim Cummings

I was at a restaurant and I heard this little voice at a nearby table pipe up and say, 'I believe I will have the chowder.' I got up and walked out into the middle of the restaurant. There was Sterling Holloway just sitting there being Sterling Holloway. Never in a million years would I have imagined that I'd have the honor of filling his shoes. I just regret not going up to him and saying hello.

Jess Walter

And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking--how in his estimation, the more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe--Pasquale Tursi said, only, "Yes.

Hunter S. Thompson

The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it, on the stool at the coffee shop at LaGuardia? I wouldn't do that again. But overall, no, I don't have any regrets.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I would want to live my life over again.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.