Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Gemmell

All things are possible, ... Except the passing of regret.

David Berkowitz

Society has to take the glory out of guns. Young people have no business carrying a gun. I would love to speak bluntly to those gangbanging teens and wanna-bes and tell them prison is nothing like what you think. If you’re packing a gun, you’re making a big mistake, and you’ll regret it.

David Blunkett

I regret the time and resources needed to undertake this but... it is right to lay this accusation to rest.

David Jeremiah

First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him.

David Beckham

I know that I will always regret it later in life if I had turned down the chance to play at another great club like Real Madrid.

David Mamet

Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.

Darren Aronofsky

I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.

Daisaku Ikeda

If you summon your courage to challenge something, you’ll never be left with regret. How sad it is to spend your life wishing, “If only I’d had a little more courage.” Whatever the outcome may be, the important thing is to step forward on the path that you believe is right.

Claude Monet

the more I live, the more I regret how little i know

Danny Wallace

Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes.

Billy Graham

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

Billy Graham

I have never known anyone to accept Christ's redemption and later regret it.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

My young friends, I look forward to you as the real makers of Pakistan, do not be exploited and do not be misled. Create amongst yourselves complete unity and solidarity. Set an example of what youth can do. Your main occupation should be in fairness to yourself, to your parents, in fairness to the State, to devote your attention to your studies. If you fritter away your energies now, you will always regret.

Marvin Sapp

I chose to sing in the church, and have never regretted it.

Alice Hoffman

Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.

Anne Lamott

If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good at it, will it break your heart if it turns out you never got around to it? If you wake up one day at eighty, will you feel nonchalant that something always took precedence over a daily commitment to discovering your creative spirit? If not--if this very thought fills you with regret--then what are you waiting for?

Ann Voskamp

Wherever you are, be all there." I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.

Alastair Campbell

I do think it's strange that I get associated with Iraq more than the people who were Foreign Secretary or Defence Secretary. It's because of my closeness to Tony [Blair], which I don't regret at all. I think that was a privilege.

Albert Ellis

I regret that I've been so busy with clinical work that I haven't been able to spend much time on experiments and outcome studies.

Albert Ellis

People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance-all healthy feelings without which people couldn't exist.

Albert Brooks

Regrets are stupid; they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.

Albert Camus

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

Annabella Sciorra

I feel that I've worked with a lot of interesting people, and I have no regrets. I'm just curious about what I might have done if I'd had people in my life then who did explain what the publicity game was.

Conor Oberst

I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure

Clint Walker

I think you always have regrets.

Clint Eastwood

When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.

Clint Eastwood

My father died very suddenly at sixty-three. Just dropped dead. For a long time afterward, I'd ask myself, Why didn't I ask him to play golf more? Why didn't I spend more time with him? But when you're off trying to get the brass ring, you forget and overlook those little things. It gives you a certain amount of regret later on, but there's nothing you can do about it. So you just forge on.

Alexander Payne

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

E. M. Forster

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

Drew Barrymore

I have no regrets in my life whatsoever.

Dorothy Richardson

Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.

Donna Karan

My biggest style regret is that I can't fit into the models' clothes.

Don Imus

I regret the times I've been mean to people... It's fine to pick on people who can defend themselves and deserve it. Some people don't deserve to be picked on who I picked on, so I don't do it anymore.