Regret Quotes - Page 13

• As an early adopter of the internet, I've changed as the internet has changed, and I regret a lot of the things that I used to believe or used to do.

  Arthur Chu

  Believe, Internet, I've Changed

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that 'Don Quixote' could do.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Senior, Dirty, Reading

  "The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, 1605 - 1615.

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• It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

  William Faulkner

  Habit, Idle, Acquire

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.79, Modern Library

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• I had enough time being single to know I have no regrets about being married!

  Jennifer Connelly

  Being Single, Enough Time, Had Enough

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm far from perfect. There's a lot of times you'll say something that you regret or do something that you regret and wish you wouldn't have said it or done it.

  Matt Kenseth

  Perfect, Wish, Done

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time.

  Harry S. Truman

  Waste, Wasting Time, Minutes

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• A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Lovers

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• I have never known anyone to accept Christ's redemption and later regret it.

  Billy Graham

  Redemption, Christ, Accepting

  Billy Graham (2013). “The Reason for My Hope: Salvation”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My father died very suddenly at sixty-three. Just dropped dead. For a long time afterward, I'd ask myself, Why didn't I ask him to play golf more? Why didn't I spend more time with him? But when you're off trying to get the brass ring, you forget and overlook those little things. It gives you a certain amount of regret later on, but there's nothing you can do about it. So you just forge on.

  Clint Eastwood

  Father, Golf, Play

  "Clint Eastwood: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

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• No apologies, no regrets.

  Gale Harold

  Apology, No Regrets

  "Fictional character: Brian Kinney". TV Series "Queer as Folk", 2000-2005.

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• One is not old until Dreams become Regrets.

  David Bryant

  Dream

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• I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful.

  Lamar Odom

  Thinking, People, Hurtful

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• I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush.

  Paul Simon

  One Day, Making Peace, Dies

  "Rock Hall of Fame enrolls new class" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. March 20, 2001.

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• Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future
  And focus intelligently on the present.
  This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Past, Focus, Anxiety

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• When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the gospel to pumpkin pie. These, however, much as we may regret it, most savages receive with indifference. What they really value among the gifts that we bring to them is intoxicating liquor which enables them, for the first time in their lives, to have the illusion for a few brief moments that it is better to be alive than dead.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Light, Race

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.165, Routledge

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• I was at a restaurant and I heard this little voice at a nearby table pipe up and say, 'I believe I will have the chowder.' I got up and walked out into the middle of the restaurant. There was Sterling Holloway just sitting there being Sterling Holloway. Never in a million years would I have imagined that I'd have the honor of filling his shoes. I just regret not going up to him and saying hello.

  Jim Cummings

  Believe, Years, Shoes

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• While it is a cause for regret that Fischer did not continue to produce scintillating games, he perhaps had a greater impact on chess than any other twentieth century player

  John Nunn

  Player, Impact, Games

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• To say "no" is painful, but much better than a "yes" that brings regrets.

  Paulo Coelho

  Painful

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• I can't figure out how they decide on those things. So I don't have any regrets about anything that I did that didn't get a lot of people to see it.

  William Petersen

  People, Figures, I Can

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Grief, Loss, Someone You Love

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• O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

  George Eliot

  Grief, Affection, Anguish

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3571, Delphi Classics

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• What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear.

  Edith Sitwell

  Thinking, Special, Privilege

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

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• I love the evening star. Does that sound foolish? I used to go into the backyard, after sunset, and wait for it until it shone above the dark gum tree. I used to whisper 'There you are, my darling.' And just in that first moment it seemed to be shining for me alone. It seemed to understand this ... something which is like longing, and yet it is not longing. Or regret - it is more like regret.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Stars, Sunset, Dark

  Katherine Mansfield, Ian Alistair Gordon (1974). “Undiscovered country: the New Zealand stories of Katherine Mansfield”

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• Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

  Honore de Balzac

  Happiness, Marriage, Couple

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• As there are some faults that have been termed faults on the right side, so there are some errors that might be denominated errors on the safe side. Thus we seldom regret having been too mild, too cautious, or too humble; but we often repent having been too violent, too precipitate, or too proud.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Humble, Errors, Faults

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.193

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