Regret Quotes

In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.

I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

There is nothing I've been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened - personally and professionally - I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.

I don't believe in regret.

With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn't use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.

I regret all of my books.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

Every comedian dreams of hosting 'The Tonight Show' and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

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.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.

I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.

Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.