Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time for useless tears or fretting, life is too short.... Time is the best avenger if we wait, the years speed by, and on their wings bear healing, life is too short for aught but high endeavor-too short for spite, but long enough for love. And love lives on forever and forever.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is a haunting phantom called Regret, A shadowy creature robed somewhat like woe, But fairer in the face, whom all men know By her said mien, and eyes forever wet. No heart would seek her; but once having met All take her by the hand, and to and fro They wander through those paths of long ago-- Those hallowed ways 'twere wiser to forget.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.

Francisco de Quevedo

He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.

Hugh Jackman

In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.

Horace Greeley

I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.

Homer

Thou wilt lament Hereafter, when the evil shall be done And shall admit no cure.

I couldn't take it no more -- something had to be done, ... I am sorry, but I don't regret it.

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.

Harold Urey

Above all, I regret that scientific experiments-some of them mine-should have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul, but not guilt.

Jacques Delors

My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it.

James Frey

The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will hold me when I need to hold it is this the calm. There is no anger, no rage, no Fury. There is no want, no need, no desire. There is no hatred no shame no regret. There is no grief, no sadness, no depression. There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

Iyanla Vanzant

If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.

Isaac Marion

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well - there's another notch on my experience belt.

Ellen Burstyn

Regret is a toxin that I try not to allow in my body.

Ingrid Bergman

I regret the things I didn't do, not what I did.

Paul Allen

The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.

Paul Arden

Everything we do we choose. So what is there to regret? You are the person you chose to be.

Paul Arden

It's better to regret what you have done than what you haven't.

Patrick Leahy

I regret that some on the extreme right have been so critical of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and have adamantly opposed the naming of a successor who shares her judicial philosophy and qualities. And their criticism actually reflects poorly upon them.

Pat Conroy

It is the secret life that sustains me now, and as I reach the top of that bridge I say it in a whisper, I say it as a prayer, as regret, and as praise. I can't tell you why I do it or what it means, but each night when I drive toward my southern home and my southern life, I whisper these words: 'Lowenstein, Lowenstein.