Quotes about regret
regret book clothes
If you attach no importance to weight problems, if not being able to wear new, trendy small-sized clothes does not cause you any regret, this book is not for you. Karl Lagerfeld
regret men people
I regret that I must so continually use the word genius, as if that should apply only to a caste as well defined from those below as income-tax payers are from the untaxed. The word genius was very probably invented by a man who had small claims on it himself; greater men would have understood better what to be a genius really was, and probably they would have come to see that the word could be applied to most people. Goethe said that perhaps only a genius is able to understand a genius. Otto Weininger
regret
I don't have one regret. Kanye West
regret desire action
Regret is distress over a desire unfulfilled or an action performed or not performed. Joyce Meyer
regret discovery awful
It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered. Paul Davies
regret opportunity thinking
I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do. Patrick Stump
regret fall boys
I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.
regret ridiculous dont-regret
Regrets are ridiculous, so I don’t regret, no. Nicole Kidman
regret who-i-am gone
But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am. Nick Carter
regret years justice
While we meant to invite debate about some ways the word was used this year, that nuance was lost, and we regret that its inclusion has become a distraction from the important debate over equality and justice. Nancy Gibbs
regret ironic succeed
Own your failure openly, publicly, with genuine regret but absolutely no shame, and you’ll reap a harvest of forgiveness, trust, respect, and connection-the things you thought you’d get by succeeding. Ironic, isn’t it? Martha Beck
regret kids thinking
They always say it is better to have loved and lost and all that, so no I don't think I have any regrets, and I have always been there for all of my kids no matter what. Mark Goddard
regret swim wish
The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific. Paul Allen
regret persons
Everything we do we choose. So what is there to regret? You are the person you chose to be. Paul Arden
regret done havens
It's better to regret what you have done than what you haven't.
regret philosophy justice
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. Patrick Leahy
regret prayer mean
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. Pat Conroy
regret mistake coffee
I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me 'a coffee' they tend to regret it - I'm worse than Mariah Carey, and the hot milk rider is completely non-negotiable. Rachel Johnson
regret repent
it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret. Niccolo Machiavelli
regret wish conducting
I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad? Neville Marriner
regret sorrow wonder
When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders. Nhat Hanh
regret caring thinking
It is best if we do not listen to or look at the person whom we consider to be the cause of our anger. Like a fireman, we have to pour water on the blaze first and not waste time looking for the one who set the house on fire. "Breathing in, I know that I am angry. Breathing out, I know that I must put all my energy into caring for my anger." So we avoid thinking about the other person, and we refrain from doing or saying anything as long as our anger persists. If we put all our mind into observing our anger, we will avoid doing any damage that we may regret later.
regret anger thinking
Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.
regret past practice
I will practice coming back to the present moment...not letting regrets and sorrow drag me back into the past or letting anxieties, fears, or cravings pull me out...
regret names rose
I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his mind. Because Henry DeVille was correct - there was an ingredient in my baking more concenctrated than any extract, more pungent than any spice; an ingredient that everyone would recognize and no one was able to name: it was regret, and it rose when one least expected. Jodi Picoult
regret book reading
This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.
regret ocean water
It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.
regret grief angel
let me tell you what happens when you cook down the syrup of loss over the open fire of sorrow: it solidfies into something wlaw. not grief, like you'd expect, or even regret. no, it gets thick as paste, black as ash; yet it isn't until you dip a finger in and feel that sharp taste dissolving on your tounge that you realize this is angel in its purest form, unrefined; a substance to be weighed and measyred and spread.
regret useless permanent
My regret was immediate and permanent and useless. John Green
regret sorry apology
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer. Patti Smith
regret past way
There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality. P. D. James
regret writing men
I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.
regret believe men
It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that. Mary Renault