Regret Quotes

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.

I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think Mr. Coppola made the right choice. The Julia Roberts role in 'Pretty Woman' held a bizarre allure for me. But, it's silly to look back with regret.

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.

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.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

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.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

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.

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.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

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.

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.