Quotes about regret
regret law careers
That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law. William Jennings Bryan
regret writing writing-history
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. Woodrow Wilson
regret past people
I don't regret my past, I just regret the time I've wasted on the wrong people. Wiz Khalifa
regret believe data
I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism. Decisions were made regarding which findings to report after the data were collected, and I believe that the final study protocol was not followed. William Thompson
regret children beats
And children? 'I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over. Zoe Wanamaker
regret never-regret apartheid
I will never regret not denouncing apartheid. Zola Budd
regret book i-regret
I regret all of my books. Zora Neale Hurston
regret book reading
I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on.
regret done duty
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me. Zachary Taylor
regret two done
I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East. Zaha Hadid
regret life-changing scary
Making a big life change is pretty scary. But know what's even scarier? Regret. Zig Ziglar
regret thinking catholic
Sometimes I regret not being Catholic. I think I'd make a pretty good saint. Zach Braff
regret men mirrors
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep. Zhuangzi
regret no-regrets remorse
We [Muslims] have to be above you. You [Americans] have to be subdued. No regrets. No remorse. Zacarias Moussaoui
regret ideas lasts
To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea. William Hazlitt
regret doors favors
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
regret truth able
One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
regret community forever
History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings. Wendell Berry
regret fall bird
When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.
regret struggle hands
I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing. W. Somerset Maugham
regret tired thinking
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
regret color dont-regret
As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.
regret grief trouble
Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.
regret thinking drawing
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!'
regret passion men
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.
regret eye poison
Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile? William Blake
regret long dying
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. Samuel Beckett
regret past steps
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. Ryan Sheckler
regret mean kids
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. Wanda Sykes
regret circles want
I deeply regret having let stand and later confirming the assumption that I went to Vietnam. For this and any other distortions about my personal life, I want to apologize to my family, friends, colleagues and students. Beyond that circle, however, I shall have no further comment. Joseph J. Ellis
regret wife terrible
My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't Joseph Epstein
regret firefly animal
I really love `Serenity.' I'm really proud of it and excited to see it my guys on the big screen, bringing something new to it, ... But `Firefly' was a different animal, something I will regret losing until the day they put me in a box, because I did have a lot of good stories I wanted to tell. Joss Whedon
regret schedules bigs
I'm not big on regret. It's not on my schedule.