Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Reedus

Do not have regrets. Guilt is a wasted emotion.

Norman Lear

I don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine.

Orson Welles

I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

Oriana Fallaci

But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.

Om Puri

I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

Omar Khayyam

Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.

Octavio Paz

The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end.

Michael Caine

I don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.

Michael Caine

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

Masashi Kishimoto

Live your life so that you’ll have no regrets. No matter how hard, no matter how sad, if something is precious to you, protect it with both arms.

Mason Cooley

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

Mason Cooley

I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.

Mason Cooley

Regret leads to overeating and naps.

Mason Cooley

Most self-laceration is more noisy than painful.

Mason Cooley

I regret. I apologize. I blame myself. I continue as before.

Mason Cooley

Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it.

Marvin Olasky

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.

Michel Patini

Consequently, I won just about everything I set out to win, everything bar the World Cup, of course. But even now, I don't regret that, because I was part of a team which twice reached the semi-finals.

Michel Patini

I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all.

Michael J. Massimino

Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a cool nickname will regret it by getting just the opposite from his astronaut friends.

Michael J. Fox

I don't feel a yearning or a sense of missed opportunities. I don't have many regrets. So that's a nice feeling. To have no regrets and still have enough sense of adventure to take on risk.

Michael J. Fox

I can say, "I don't have anything I regret!" But I can also say, "I can go forward in my life the way it is and I don't think I'll accrue any future regrets."

Mark David Chapman

I remember thinking, "The bullets are working" I think I felt a little regret that they were working.

Marie Dressler

The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are past middle life -- and I hope you have the rich experience of love along the way -- don't think everything is all over. Don't regret the vanished cocktail when the stuffed turkey is about to come in. Flip out your napkin and bite into it! Friends you can gather around you in the later years of life are worth the whole thing ...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.

Ted Turner

I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

Malcolm X

It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what you"ve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; you"ll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you"ll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.

John C. Maxwell

The only thing we can control is what we do in the present. The more we replay yesterday, the further we get from today's opportunities. And the further away we move from opportunities, the tougher the road is to get back. Opportunities never look as good coming as they do going, and they wait for no one. We need to be highly attentive to spot them. And we must be focused on our present capabilities, not past regrets.

Louise Erdrich

He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul.

James Madison

I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a proselyte to the doctrine, that public debts are public benefits. I consider them, on the contrary, as evils which ought to be removed as fast as honor and justice will permit.

Joan Didion

I found earthquakes, even when I was in them, deeply satisfying, abruptly revealed evidence of the scheme in action. That the schemes could destroy the works of man might be a personal regret but remained, in the larger picture I had come to recognize, a matter of abiding indifference. No eye was on the sparrow. No eye was watching me.

Eric Stoltz

I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think Mr. Coppola made the right choice. The Julia Roberts role in 'Pretty Woman' held a bizarre allure for me. But, it's silly to look back with regret.

Eric Morecambe

I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.