Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Orne Jewett

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

William Hung

I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.

Vincent Van Gogh

There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it- do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

Vincent Van Gogh

As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.

Vincent Van Gogh

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

Vincent Van Gogh

My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life... looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'

Vincent Van Gogh

I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

William Blake

Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?

Samuel Beckett

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

Ryan Sheckler

I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.

Wanda Sykes

People say, 'Well don't you regret not having kids?' And I go, 'No, not really.' And then if they keep asking, I always say this, 'Well, you know, maybe I'll adopt.' But I don't mean that. It's just something I say to make me sound like a nicer person.

Virgil Thomson

I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.

W. H. Auden

O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed.

William Cowper

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

Wayne Newton

I dont really believe in regrets.

Wayne Dyer

Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments.

Wayne Dyer

First, imagine taking the potentially regret - producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you to take this risk. By picturing both scenarios in advance, you can avoid the regret of what might have been.

Townes Van Zandt

Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap.

Van Morrison

I don't have any regrets about the album [ Veedon Fleece ]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.

Ursula K. Le Guin

And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.

Ty Cobb

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

Tyga

I never regret my past... Only time I wasted was on the wrong people.

Vladimir Putin

I don’t regret anything. I did everything absolutely correctly.

Vladimir Putin

People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that do regret it have no brain.

Vladimir Putin

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.

William Arthur Ward

Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.

Warren Zevon

Regrets are so far from reality.

Thomas Haden Church

Villains with a conscience have this sad realization of who they are, and the monster they've become — there's a sense of regret. So at the end of these movies there's a dramatic resonance that really stays with the audience.

Tim Tebow

I don't really regret much. I know there are things that I've done that have been wrong, and wish I could do over again, but I feel it's all made me who I am today, and I'm very thankful for that.

Rebecca Lobo

I have no regrets about my career or retiring. Not once have I thought 'Gosh, I wish I was back on the court.

Vidal Sassoon

My greatest regret is selling my company.

Viggo Mortensen

Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.

Victor Salva

I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is life. Very interested in people's struggles and their choices and their regrets and joys. I'm very interested in the human animal.