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• I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.

  Patrick Stump

  Fall, Boys, Track

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• I don't talk about my past; people ask me about it. I've done things I'm ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I've done that I regret, I've never done twice. I work really hard at that.

  Art Alexakis

  Past, People, Done

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• "Do you have any regrets?" Of course I do.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Courses

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Travel, Wish, Nuisance

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• Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith-the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!

  Lewis Carroll

  Memories, Night, Soul

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.367, Race Point Pub

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• Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game,
  Where wasted nations raise a single name;
  And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret,
  From age to age in everlasting debt;
  Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey
  To rust on medals, or on stones decay.

  Samuel Johnson

  War, Hero, Games

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author”, p.36

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• Because the truth is - and we know it - we were born to die without regrets. Regret is the only wound from which the soul never recovers.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Soul, Truth Is, Born

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• I truly believe that regret is the only wound the soul does not recover from, and so I'm trying to live without regrets. ... Each day is another chance to be swept away.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Believe, Soul, Trying

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• children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Children, Anticipate, One Thing

  Elizabeth Bowen (1998). “Bowen's Court”

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• Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Looks, Way, Anticipation

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.157

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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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• it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.

  Freya Stark

  Employment, Might, Happened

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain.

  Phoebe Cary

  Temptation, Moments, Vain

  Phoebe Cary (1854). “Poems and Parodies”, p.58

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• I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to
  receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Daughter, Thinking, Deserving It

  "Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interviewed with Peter H. Stone. Issue 82, p. 339, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1981.

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• It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.

  Rich Robinson

  Music, Disappointment, Writing

  "Black Crowes have broken up, says Rich Robinson". www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2015.

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• The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

  Vernon Howard

  Mistake, Past, Forever

  "The Power of Esoterics". Book by Vernon Howard, 1999.

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• The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you
  must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.

  T. D. Jakes

  Running, Winning, Race

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• I think everybody makes mistakes. People do things that they regret.

  Nick Saban

  Mistake, Thinking, People

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• I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

  Om Puri

  Done, Proud, Faces

  Om Puri @OmRajeshPuri, twitter.com. December 20, 2016.

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• I truly feel sorry to all the fans of the games I have made. Ninja Gaiden 2, which will launch on the 3rd of June will be the last Ninja Gaiden I will create. I will also never be able to make Dead or Alive 5. I regret the circumstances that have forced me to leave Tecmo, where I had worked for so many years, and I regret the disappointment this will cause my fans. However, I can no longer continue to work with President Yoshimi Yasuda, a man who chooses not to honor promises even when he is able to do so. I truly hope that nothing like this happens again in the future.

  Tomonobu Itagaki

  Disappointment, Sorry, Years

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• Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, War, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet; yet it leaves behind only bitterness and regret. In that, it resembles, surely, the pleasures of love.

  Anthony Capella

  Sweet, Coffee, Aroma

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