Quotes about regret
regret thinking unnecessary
Regret is unnecessary. Think before you act. William Shockley
regret phones may
No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything. William Shatner
regret responsibility hands
I regret to say that my hand did, in fact, have an improper relationship with Chelsea Clinton. The incident represents a profound lapse of judgment for which my hand takes sole responsibility. William J. Clinton
regret men agents
Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all. William James
regret life-is-too-short long
People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long. Sarah Addison Allen
regret teenager moving
Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.
regret believe soul
I truly believe that regret is the only wound the soul does not recover from, and so I'm trying to live without regrets. ... Each day is another chance to be swept away. Sarah Ban Breathnach
regret soul truth-is
Because the truth is - and we know it - we were born to die without regrets. Regret is the only wound from which the soul never recovers.
regret father heart
Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood. Samuel Rogers
regret men suffering
Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake? William Ellery Channing
regret father littles
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister. William Faulkner
regret habit idle
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.
regret political goes-on
To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will. Ronald Reagan
regret heart sadness
A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal myself. They will take heart from my good traits, and sigh with sadness at my bad ones. My good points are instilled by you and are your gifts. My bad points are my faults and your judgements on them. Let them take heart from the one and regret the other. Let both praise and tears ascend in your sight from brotherly hearts, your censers. ...But you Lord...Make perfect my imperfections. Saint Augustine
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 hands soul
I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.