Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dale Carnegie

You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.

Daniel Smith

Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret-regret is useless.

Clive Barker

Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms I’d done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things; but large enough to regret.

Clint Eastwood

A lot of people regret, because we live in a society that reveres being at the prime of life and everything, but you have certain primes at certain times, and mine happens to be...

Clint Eastwood

I am not a regret type person. I don't believe in regrets. Lots of things you would do differently if you'd do it again, but you don't do it again, so you don't think about it. But that goes for life in general. You're only dealing with the knowledge you have at that time.

David Bailey

I'm not really one for regrets.

David Carradine

I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner.

Corin Nemec

I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don't look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever.

Corey Taylor

You have to live in these moments, not for them. If you look too hard, they blow right by you. If you do not live enough, you will regret every breath.

Confucius

The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels no regret - It is only the sage who is able for this.

Confucius

Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few. See much and get rid of what is dangerous and be careful in acting on the rest and your causes for regret will be few. Speaking without fault, acting without causing regret: 'upgrading' consists in this.

Daniel Tosh

Fifty Shades Of Grey proved you can write about a dude choking women and shoving stuff up their butts but heaven forbid if you tell a legitimate joke about it. Sure I doubled the number of feminists who hate me, but I also doubled the number of shows I have on TV. No regrets.

Daley Thompson

I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.

Darin Strauss

Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.

Dave Eggers

She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.

Dolly Parton

I'm the kind of person who would rather rock in my rocking chair when I'm old and regret a few things that I did than to sit there and regret that I never tried..

Devin Hester

Whenever I got a shot, the team that selected me, I just promised myself that I would give them something that they wouldn't regret... The Chicago Bears drafted me, and I'm going to make sure they're not second-guessing themselves about that.

Debbie Harry

I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.

Andie MacDowell

My biggest regret is rolling in regret. It is best to pick yourself up , dust yourself off and move on.

Andre Agassi

It's easier to live with disappointment than regret.

Amber Benson

Life is very short, try everything you've dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don't forget the sunscreen.

Anna Quindlen

Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

Chuck Yeager

I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation.

Andrew Jackson

I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.

Andrew Jackson

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

Andrew Jackson

I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

Andrew Jackson

After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

Amy Tan

But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei

Alois Brunner

The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again.

Alphonse Karr

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

Andy Stanley

Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.

Ann Richards

I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression, and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew. Leaders who told us when things were tough, and that we would have to sacrifice, and these difficulties might last awhile. They didn't tell us things were hard for us because we were different, or isolated, or special interests. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Ang Lee

There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.