I Regret Quotes - Page 5

• I took the easy way, and to an extent I regret that. Still, though, the way we did it was honest. We played it and sang it the way we felt it, and there's a lot to be said for that.

  Johnny Cash

  Regret, Way, Honest

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• I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I do have the heart of a lion.

  Burt Reynolds

  Regret, Heart, Class

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

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• I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.

  John Lennon

  New York, Regret, Air

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• I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.

  Julie Christie

  Regret, Too Much, Kind

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• I regret what I did but it was in my personal time and I therefore hope that it does not reflect on the show

  Richard Bacon

  Regret, Doe, Personal Time

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• I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways.

  George W. Bush

  Regret, Humor, Presidential

  "Bush makes major league gaffe". www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2000.

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• Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes.

  Jeff Bezos

  Wall, Regret, Missing

  "The Inner Bezos" by Chip Bayers, www.wired.com. March 1, 1999.

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• I regret my choice of words which do not accurately reflect the process of the James committee, with which I have been closely involved and totally support.

  Howard Flight

  Regret, Choices, Support

  "Senior Tory sacked over spending cuts gaffe" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2005.

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• The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Strong, Regret, Memories

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• So they, who climb to wealth, forget
  The friends in darker fortunes tried.
  I copied them--but I regret
  That I should ape the ways of pride.

  William C. Bryant

  Regret, Pride, Way

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Yellow Violet”

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• I regret. I apologize. I blame myself. I continue as before.

  Mason Cooley

  Regret, Apologizing, Blame

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• Yeah, I regret we weren't on a higher floor.

  Charles Barkley

  Sports, Regret, Yeah

  “The Greatest Party Animals Of All Time” by Ryan Murphy, www.askmen.com.

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• I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.

  Lauren Bacall

  Mothers Day, Children, Regret

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• I think people assume I'm perfect. I'm not. I make mistakes. I do things I regret. I'm stubborn.

  Hilary Duff

  Regret, Mistake, Life Lesson

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• Above all, I regret that scientific experiments-some of them mine-should have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul, but not guilt.

  Harold Urey

  Regret, Science, Should Have

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• As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting prejudices that surround me, whether they affect homosexuals or men or the physically handicapped and I can't alone defeat them. They will not defeat me, either as a lesbian or a writer.

  Jane Rule

  Regret, Men, Diversity

  FaceBook post by Jane Rule from Jun 30, 2015

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• As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in New York... I regret my votes in favor of the death penalty.

  John R. Dunne

  New York, Regret, Favors

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• Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs, who seized three-pronged lances when the warlords raised whips in their black hands. We were brave and sacrifice was easy and we asked the sun, the moon, to alter the sky. Now I see a thousand waves of beans and rice and am happy. In the evening haze heroes are coming home.

  Mao Zedong

  Dream, Regret, Hero

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• I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.

  Elizabeth I

  Regret, Slave, Unhappiness

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• I regret that I can't sit in the stands and watch me.

  Bo Belinsky

  Regret, Watches, Watch Me

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• The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative. I am neither liberal, nor conservative, nor gradualist, nor monk, nor indifferentist. 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, People

  Anton Chekhov (2009). “Selected Stories of Anton Chekov”, p.12, Modern Library

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• I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Regret, Lectures

  Alfred North Whitehead (1920). “The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November, 1919”, Cambridge University Press

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• I regret the time and resources needed to undertake this but... it is right to lay this accusation to rest.

  David Blunkett

  Regret, Accusation, Resources

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• I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault.

  Scott Baio

  Regret, Faults, Losing

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

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• I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Regret, Thinking, Well Known

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