Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aubrey O'Day

You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.

Ben Gibbard

At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder...

Cameron Diaz

Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.

Burt Reynolds

I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I DO have the heart of a lion.

Alan Cumming

I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!

Alain de Botton

There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.

Alain de Botton

Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.

Mr. Wilson is very remorseful that this happened. He totally regrets it.

No one that I've talked to is regretting that we had a tropical storm.

Nope. I'd have no regrets about this year, other than the two I just told you about -- the 54-yarder and the 43-yarder.

Elizabeth Bowen

children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.

Elin Hilderbrand

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.

Eleanora Duse

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

Elena Kagan

I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard... and achieving as much as I could.

Deepak Chopra

Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt.

Deepak Chopra

When your awareness is contracted, the flow of energy and information throughout your bodymind is hampered. You tend to stay stuck in toxic emotions such as regret, resentment, and self-pity. Non-nurturing habits such as overeating and not exercising take hold. The feedback loop between your mind and your body turns negative, and stress can hit you instantaneously or grind away at you day after day.

Dominic Cooper

You must believe in your own instincts and your own instincts at any particular time and believe that they were the right ones for any given situation. So, there's no point ever of kind of regretting something because you can't properly remember the exact circumstances in which you were playing out this particular scene. You have to believe in your intuition and your instinct at that moment.

Dominic Cooper

It's a very, very exciting time, but you can't help thinking or not quite knowing how it's seen from the outside. You're constantly in a state of terror or regret, not quite knowing how things are going to pan out, or whether you've made the right decisions. But, maybe that's just what it's like. Maybe that's just the life of it.

Dionne Warwick

I don't think there's anything I can't do. I have no regrets.

Dick Vermeil

It's better to be cautious and play it safe than regret pushing him too hard. We're supposed to get another read on it soon.

David Nicholls

I love that sound,' he mumbled into her hair. 'Blackbirds at dawn.' 'I hate it. Makes me think I've done something I'll regret.

Aaron Burr

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

Bruce Willis

What I say is what I say, I don't always say the right thing, I don't always say the politically correct thing. I don't have any regrets about that.

Britt Ekland

Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.

Britney Spears

I have no regrets. I find everything happens for a reason and the reason why maybe this is happening is I won't take BS from anyone. And I think it's making me stand out on my own and be very independent and fight for what I believe in.

Britney Spears

I don't want to say my biggest mistake--I don't want to tell the whole world that. Trust me, I've made plenty. But I don't regret them because they've made me the person that I am right now.

Brian McDermott

I don't regret anything.

Brett Ratner

I don't have any regrets.

Brandon Sanderson

I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately, when the fate of the world is in question, you use whatever tools are available.

Barbara Johnson

Forgiveness is a stunning principal, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. I know what regret feels like; I've earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me. Forgiveness frees you of the past so you can make good choices today.

Barbara Johnson

If things are tough, remember that every flower had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there. So do not grieve about a bitter experience. The present is slipping by while you are regretting the past and worrying about the future. Regret will not prevent tomorrow's sorrows; it will only rob today of its strength.

Barbara Kingsolver

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

Bahman Ghobadi

Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.