Regret Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I'm working on. And though I'll probably regret saying this, I think some songs actually don't sound too bad when they're played through lousy speakers.

  Rosecrans Baldwin

  Song, Thinking, Sound

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• Never regret something, because at one point everything you did was exactly what you wanted to do. And sometimes that's the hardest thing to realize.

  Kid Cudi

  Sometimes, Realizing, Hardest

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• Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.

  Khalil Gibran

  Light, Darkness, Purpose

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The happiest times in my life were when my relationships were going well - when I was in love with someone, and someone was loving me. But in my whole life, I haven't met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I'm discontented about that. I'm angry with myself. I have regrets.

  Billy Joel

  Mets, Whole Life, Wells

  "The Stranger". Interview with Chuck Klosterman, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 2002.

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• I left for the same reasons everyone leaves jobs that are no longer fulfilling their hopes and aspirations. I didn't see myself spending the rest of my life being a strummer for someone else's dreams. Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bullshit and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.

  Mark Knopfler

  Dream, Jobs, Opportunity

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• The far northern scenery is absolutely desolate but is marvelously beautiful, and I shall never regret that I have seen it, even though it cost me the unbelievable privations and exertions which we suffer here.

  Robert Bunsen

  Beautiful, Suffering, Cost

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• Voluntary actions by corporations should not go beyond innovative win - win 'no regrets' initiatives. Greenhouse gas control practices that are uneconomic penalize either consumers or stockholders while politicizing the issue of corporate responsibility. Few will be satisfied, and the ineffectual measures will eventually have to be abandoned.

  Robert L. Bradley, Jr.

  Responsibility, Winning, Practice

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• ... the job [at the Manhattan Institute] gives me a platform where I can focus on the themes that I explored in both Gusher of Lies and Power Hungry: that the myths about "green" energy are largely just that, myths; that hydrocarbons are here to stay; and that if we are going to pursue the best "no regrets" policy with regard to energy, then we should be avidly promoting natural gas and nuclear energy.

  Robert Bryce

  Jobs, Lying, Giving

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• Well, you know, the first step I took was to drop the alto and baritone and concentrate on tenor exclusively, a decision I've never really looked back on with any regret. Another thing was that I was 17 when I moved up there, and my listening had really focused on freer music in the previous couple of years- Coltrane was playing with his expanded group, and everyone was listening closely to that, and we were into Shepp and Ayler as well.

  David S. Ware

  Couple, Years, Decision

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• My tough and grotesque images were thrown on the roads and were stepped on by my critics, and I was talked about with scorn. I felt regret that readers only seemed to like something they were accustomed to.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Tough, Grotesque, Critics

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My mom actually took me to get my first tattoo when I was 15. She highly regrets that choice now, as I have a lot more.

  Nico Tortorella

  Tattoo, Mom, Choices

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My father told me "If you choose to let this money destroy your initiative and independence, then it will be a curse to you and my action in giving it to you will have been a mistake. I shall regret very much to have you miss the glorious feeling of accomplishment. Remember that often adversity is a blessing in disguise and is certainly the greatest character builder."

  Charles Koch

  Mistake, Father, Character

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• We will, at some point, reflect back at our rampant acceptance of speciesism with profound regret. Our journey to understanding that all demonstrations of life possess equal value is a slow and harrowing one.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Acceptance, Journey, Profound

  "Interview with United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Ian Somerhalder". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 01, 2014.

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• In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying "I'm sorry," is that there's so much I would do differently and want to do differently moving forward.

  Bill Ayers

  Sorry, Moving, Funny Things

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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• Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life. It is force used to pile on more misery.

  Prentice Mulford

  Misery, Used, Force

  Prentice Mulford (2015). “The Prentice Mulford Premium Collection: “New Thought” Studies, Novels & Memoirs: Thoughts Are Things, The God In You, Your Forces and How to Use Them, Life By Land and Sea, Swamp Angel and more (Wisdom & Empowerment Series)”, p.50, e-artnow

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• I don't regret my past, I just regret the time I've wasted on the wrong people.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Past, People, Behind Your Back

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• I never regret anything... I just lie about it or change the story.

  Barack Obama

  Lying, Stories, Never Regret

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• Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility.

  Radhanath Swami

  Humility, Done, Spirit

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• These are the roots of trees, O monks, these are empty huts. Meditate, monks, do not be negligent, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.

  Gautama Buddha

  Roots, Tree, Monk

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• I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life!

  Meg Cabot

  Teacher, Dad, College

  Interview with Joyce Lamb, www.azcentral.com. June 30, 2013.

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• Go on a living spree. While you're here, why not live it up? Make your list, then go be, do, and have everything you want. Live life to the fullest. Live a life of no regrets. Strive toward your potential. NO restrictions apply. This offer is good for a limited time only. Don't miss this opportunity. Go on a living spree!

  Clifton Anderson

  Live Life, Opportunity, Missing

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• While it is important to trash the governor, it should be done in the context of regret, sadness and balance.

  Frank Luntz

  Sadness, Balance, Important

  "California Democrats: A Rock or a Hard Place?" by Jim Angle, www.foxnews.com. July 21, 2003.

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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, Believe, Writing

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• There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But he still says so. There was no link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaida. But he still says so. And thus, gripping firmly these figments of his own imagination, Mr. Cheney lives on, in defiance, and spreads - around him and before him - darkness, like some contagion of fear. They are never wrong, and they never regret - admirable in a French torch singer, cataclysmic in an American leader.

  Keith Olbermann

  Iraq, Mass Destruction, Imagination

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