Regret Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• 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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• Failure is something I can deal with. Regret is not.

  Jeremy Schoemaker

  Deals, I Can

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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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• At the end of the day, you can't regret it if you were trying. At the end of the day I'm walking with a heart of a lion.

  Kid Cudi

  Heart, The End Of The Day, Trying

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• There is no truer saying than "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold." It is so much sweeter for the waiting, and my only regret is that I cannot broadcast my triumph to the world.

  Minette Walters

  Revenge, Waiting, Triumph

  Minette Walters (2011). “The Scold's Bridle”, p.71, Pan Macmillan

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• There's two kinds of pain in sports: the pain of discipline and the pain of regret.

  Jeff Blatnick

  Sports, Pain, Two

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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, Waste

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

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• If you don't pursue what you think will be most meaningful, you will regret it. Life is long. There is always time for Plan B. But don't begin with it.

  Drew Gilpin Faust

  Meaningful, Thinking, Long

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• I hope we shall see more ande more women combining marriage and a career. Prejudice against this dual role is not confined to men. I regret to say, it comes from our own sex.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Sex, Men, Careers

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• I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'abolish the GLC' because I think it would have been a major saving and would have released massive resources for productive use.

  Ken Livingstone

  Thinking, Degrees, Use

  "Beyond Our Ken: A Guide to the Battle for London". Book by Andrew Forrester, Robin Pauley, and Stewart Lansley, 1985.

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• It's exciting to look back at the work that I've done and not have a single regret about a job I've taken. I feel really proud of every film I've been a part of. Big or small role, I feel like it was the right choices.

  Ari Graynor

  Jobs, Taken, Choices

  "Exclusive: Ari Graynor Talks LUCKY, THE SITTER and WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER?". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2011.

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• You know how sometimes when you're drunk you say something you sort of regret... to Ace Frehley?

  Eugene Mirman

  Drunk, Aces, Sometimes

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• I'm trying to feel terrified and alone. And regret every decision I've ever made, drenched in a cold sweat. It's called going to sleep. Maybe you've heard of it.

  Arj Barker

  Sleep, Sweat, Decision

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• When you are young in this world, you believe that the class of deductive truths about social matters is larger than it turns out to be. [...] I have discovered, to my infinite regret, that most of the serious debates over the basic principles of any political order have an irreducible empirical content.

  Richard Allen Epstein

  Believe, Order, Class

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• My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes.

  Louis C. K.

  Wife, Careful, Materials

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• Being hungover is like winning the lottery, only they pay you in regret.

  Ryan North

  Winning, Pay, Lottery

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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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• 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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• 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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