Regret Quotes

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.

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.

You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud that I was able to do what I did - psychologically it was a great wall to climb - but sometimes I regret it.

I don't regret setting bombs.

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities.

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

He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I'm just leaving them.

I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.

My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

The effort required by your endeavor now is not as hard as dealing with your regret later.

I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

I do not regret one moment of my life.

The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

I very much regret that our administration has pushed the whole issue of Kosovo to the back burner.

I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades.

I love meeting 'the Odd Man Out' - like fans of 'Baywatch' who regret, as I do, that Tower 12 Productions didn't put nearly as much energy into writing and directing the show as they put into photographing and editing it.

I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions.

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed.