Regret Quotes

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 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.

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.

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.

That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.

There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.

The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He's now remarried so there's no chance of us getting back together.