I Regret Quotes - Page 11

• As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.

  Stephen Fry

  Regret, Government, Victory

  BBC "This Week", May 19, 2006.

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• I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

  Anton Chekhov

  Regret, Artist, Given

  Anton Chekhov (2008). “How to Write Like Chekhov: Advice and Inspiration, Straight from His Own Letters and Work”, p.26, Da Capo Press

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• I regret that I should leave this world without again beholding him.

  James Monroe

  Regret, World, Should

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• There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention.

  Helen Keller

  Bible, Regret, Thinking

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.70, Om Books International

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• I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.

  Winslow Homer

  Regret, Description

  On being asked about the meaning of a painting by a dealer. Quoted by Andrea Bennett in the NewYork Times Book Review, 15 Sep 1991.

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• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal.

  Erik Naggum

  Regret, Littles, Dangerous

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• I regret that he didn't do anything about it, even though he was at least a head taller than me. I wouldn't have minded bleeding at all for one more opportunity to give the kind of Bat Lesson that Finger, Robinson, Sprang and others only dreamed of.

  Jim Steranko

  Regret, Book, Opportunity

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• I regret the way that America has elected to make films for its bluntest section of society and in ways that flatter them, and we have to recognize how much that is being done for money. We have to find another way of measuring ourselves. And film is one of the few ways that might be done.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Regret, America, Hollywood

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• I regret my disbelief in God.

  Peter Medawar

  Regret, Atheism, Disbelief

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.209, Oxford University Press, USA

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• As far as Im concerned, I regret nothing.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Regret, Regret Nothing, Concerned

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• Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.

  Bahman Ghobadi

  Regret, Historical, Film

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• I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Regret, Arrogance, Inexperience

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange - I feel like I have to reinvent the wheel. There are poets who don't have to do that.

  Joan Larkin

  Regret, Writing, Giving

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world.

  Ludovico Ariosto

  Death, Regret, World

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• The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.

  Elie Wiesel

  Regret, Sin, Commit

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• If we are going t stick to this damned quantum-jumping, then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Regret, Jumping, Sticks

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• Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly; nor do I regret that I did not waste more of them in the workshop or the teacher's desk.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Teacher, Regret

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.125, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Each time I changed, it was as if, on purpose, I didn’t want anyone to know too much about me, which of course now I regret, because I closed myself to everything. But it was my way of dealing with things.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Regret, Way, Purpose

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I regret that some on the extreme right have been so critical of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and have adamantly opposed the naming of a successor who shares her judicial philosophy and qualities. And their criticism actually reflects poorly upon them.

  Patrick Leahy

  Regret, Philosophy, Justice

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Some days I regret wording things the way I did in the heat of the moment.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Regret, Way, Heat

  "Chrissy Teigen Thinks Ivanka Trump 'Should Probably Run for Office One Day'". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. September 8, 2016.

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• We are generally forced to choose one way or the other of distancing ourselves from Kant. I suppose I tend to choose the irreligious way. But I regret that Kant's path has not been followed.

  Allen W. Wood

  Regret, Way, Path

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I regret that we weren't able to reform Social Security. The fact that we weren't able to when we had majorities in the House and the Senate I think reflected poorly on our political party.

  George W. Bush

  Regret, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• I regret that after 30 years of writing columns in this market, including ten with this newspaper that I love very much, this local conversation has come to an end. However, I believe that if the newspapers of the country pool their resources, we can send an Arnold-Schwartzenegger-style robot back in time to kill the inventor of the Internet, and then our future will be much brighter.

  James Lileks

  Country, Regret, Believe

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• When I was writing my first draft, and feeling grandiose, I e-mailed an artist/clothing designer I know and suggested we collaborate on a fashion line inspired by the outfits my characters wore. I regret that we never did that.

  Heidi Julavits

  Fashion, Regret, Writing

  Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

  Lucille Ball

  Regret, Talent, Appreciative

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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