Quotes about regret
regret hero men
Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. Mark Twain
regret editors magazines
How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.
regret hero simple
Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
regret understanding ethics
For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding. Paul Ricoeur
regret forever bones
Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever. Patrick Rothfuss
regret links existence
Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
regret remember forget
Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?
regret thinking middle-east
The consequence could be that we would have an escalation that would take place that would not only involve many lives, but I think it could consume the Middle East in a confrontation and a conflict that we would regret. Leon Panetta
regret police prison
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like. Laurence Housman
regret mistake common-sense
The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. Oscar Wilde
regret luxury done
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
regret doe moments
I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.
regret loss sin
It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
regret believe men
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
regret book mind
The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.
regret ignorance expression
It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
regret feelings important
One thing I feel clear about is that it's important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven't really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won't look back upon my forties with regret. Irvin D. Yalom
regret commitment criticism
Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime. Imre Lakatos
regret bridges water
I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life. Ike Turner
regret men light
Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.
regret looks littles
I can scarcely fancy myself to ask a superior to publish a volume of my verse and I own that humanly there is very little likelihood of that ever coming to pass. And to be sure if I chose to look at things on one side and not the other I could of course regret this bitterly. But there is more peace and it isthe holier lot to be unknown than to be known. Gerard Manley Hopkins
regret choices poor
I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words. Harry Reid
regret waste wasting-time
Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time. Harry S Truman
regret marine choices
I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language, which I used in my letter of Aug 29 to Congress McDonough concerning the Marine Corps...
regret knowing would-be
One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic J. K. Rowling
regret feelings complexes
My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings. Natalia Ginzburg
regret play risk
While it is tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took. Kelsey Grammer
regret moving apology
Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.
regret thinking ugly
Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are. Kathryn Schulz
regret past knows
Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better.
regret past creating
We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesen't remind us what we did badly, it reminds us what we know we could do better.
regret motivation inspiration
If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.
regret hate
The point isn’t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.