Quotes about regret
regret thinking years
One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different. Daniel Handler
regret mistake writing
Like most writers, I look back on all of my finished works with utter regret, and the trouble with writing a series of novels is that you have to go back and read them, and make sure that you haven't forgotten anything you've created, and then when you do that, you're faced with your own mistakes on every trick, from the wrong word in places to entirely the wrong incident.
regret father kids
I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear. Dana Carvey
regret people unhappy
Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy. Coco Chanel
regret slave unhappiness
I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution. Elizabeth I
regret heart done
Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart. Basil Rathbone
regret home hands
Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
regret self sharks
Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. Instinct is a lifesaver for sharks and entrepreneurs alike. Most people can recall times they ignored their gut only to regret it later. Learning to actually listen to your instinct is a great form of self-preservation. It's both incredibly easy and tough at the same time, but worth the effort to master. Barbara Corcoran
regret kids abortion
The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks. Barbara Ehrenreich
regret humanity earth
Dear Humanity; we regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Earth. And we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet! Avery Johnson
regret father grateful
Father, I have much to be grateful for tonight and I thank you. I have much to regret and I ask your forgiveness. But even as I ask your forgiveness, I know that I receive it, and a deep peace fills my heart. Help me to sleep well tonight and to wake early ready for that daily yet greatest of gifts, a fresh start. Avery Brooks
regret negative
I don't have regrets because they are negative. Bruce Oldfield
regret politically-correct right-thing
What I say is what I say, I don't always say the right thing, I don't always say the politically correct thing. I don't have any regrets about that. Bruce Willis
regret father thinking
Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that. Britt Ekland
regret believe independent
I have no regrets. I find everything happens for a reason and the reason why maybe this is happening is I won't take BS from anyone. And I think it's making me stand out on my own and be very independent and fight for what I believe in. Britney Spears
regret mistake world
I don't want to say my biggest mistake--I don't want to tell the whole world that. Trust me, I've made plenty. But I don't regret them because they've made me the person that I am right now.
regret dont-regret dont-regret-anything
I don't regret anything. Brian McDermott
regret
I don't have any regrets. Brett Ratner
regret fate tyrants
I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately, when the fate of the world is in question, you use whatever tools are available. Brandon Sanderson
regret hate past
Forgiveness is a stunning principal, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. I know what regret feels like; I've earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me. Forgiveness frees you of the past so you can make good choices today. Barbara Johnson
regret flower adversity
If things are tough, remember that every flower had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there. So do not grieve about a bitter experience. The present is slipping by while you are regretting the past and worrying about the future. Regret will not prevent tomorrow's sorrows; it will only rob today of its strength.
regret skins saws
How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets. Barbara Kingsolver
regret historical film
Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents. Bahman Ghobadi
regret road
We regret that there was any misunderstanding. Hopefully, this will get us on the road to resolution.
regret guilt too-much
I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret. Ayelet Waldman
regret clouds trying
We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds. Libba Bray
regret remind
There ain't nothing like regret to remind you you're alive. Sheryl Crow
regret mind riding
When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it. Edward Abbey
regret suffering half
I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
regret home pride
At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, "thus far and no further." If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, "If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.
regret children anticipate
children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret. Elizabeth Bowen
regret what-if done
Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs. Elin Hilderbrand
regret making-a-difference enough
When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves. Eleanora Duse