Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Koch

My father told me "If you choose to let this money destroy your initiative and independence, then it will be a curse to you and my action in giving it to you will have been a mistake. I shall regret very much to have you miss the glorious feeling of accomplishment. Remember that often adversity is a blessing in disguise and is certainly the greatest character builder."

Ai Weiwei

China didn't want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with Twitter. However, it has no soul - which is freedom of expression. Nevertheless, I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.

Billy Joel

The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.

Billy Joel

The happiest times in my life were when my relationships were going well -- when I was in love with someone, and someone was loving me. But in my whole life, I haven't met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I'm discontented about that. I'm angry with myself. I have regrets.

Bill Russell

I don't have very many regrets, not because I lived a perfect life but because life is a bunch of rolling hills, not mountains, or speed bumps instead of stop signs, and so you come to a situation and it's neither good or bad, it just is, and what it means to you is what's your take on it. But the second part of the equation is what are you going to do about it. A lot of times I'm completely wrong, but all you do is back up and start over.

Bill Johnson

Living in regret will become your biggest regret.

Beverly Cleary

The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.

Bernhard Goetz

I don't regret pulling the trigger. I should have been more careful with many of the things I said afterwards. That was a big regret.

Bernhard Goetz

With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didnt use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.

Benjamin Percy

I think everyone can relate to the werewolf myth - because we've all, as a result of alcohol, drugs, exhaustion, rage, gone off the leash and come to regret it later. I appeal to this psychologically - the unleashed id - but with a biological cause; I'm hopefully making possible supernatural circumstances.

Edward Gorey

Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one

Edward Gibbon

A state of skepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the multitude that, if they are forcibly awakened, they still regret the loss of their pleasing vision.

Edward Gibbon

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor can it reasonably be presumed that the restoration of British freedom was exempt from tumult and faction. The pre-eminence of birth and fortune must have been frequently violated by bold and popular citizens; and the haughty nobles, who complained that they were become the subjects of their own servants, would sometimes regret the reign of an arbitrary monarch.

Edith Stein

Learn from Saint Thérèse to depend on God alone and serve Him with a wholly pure and detached heart. Then, like her, you will be able to say 'I do not regret that I have given myself up to Love'.

Edith Sitwell

What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear.

David Brin

I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.

Baroness Orczy

I shall return, doubt it not. Such love as ours was not created to remain unfulfilled. Whatever may happen, believe and trust in me, as I shall in you, and keep the remembrance of me in your heart without sadness and without regret.

Audrey Hepburn

Never regret anything that makes you smile.

Antonio Tabucchi

Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.

Derek Bok

Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.

Denis Waitley

We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.

Deb Caletti

she wonders if we feel more regret for the things we do or for the things we didn't do

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The deepest regret of yesterday can be made right by following the Savior today.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

If we fail to give our time with those we love, one day we will live to regret it.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The more we devote ourselves to the pursuit of holiness and happiness, the less likely we will be on a path to regrets.

Diana Gabaldon

Then kiss me, Claire," he whispered, "And know that you are more to me than life, and I have no regret.

Edward Gibbon

It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation.

Ed Koch

God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.

Elizabeth McGovern

By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.

Edwin Louis Cole

Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin....though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime

Bill Nighy

One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, 'Whatever you do, don't smoke'. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.