Regret Quotes - Page 35

• Few people get to earn a living at what they like to do and there are hazards in any profession. Football is something I was made for. I gave the game all I could for as long as I could. I guess my only regret was that my career was too short.

  Dick Butkus

  Football, Games, Careers

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• We didn't win a Super Bowl together, and that's something I'll always regret - not knowing what that feels like. But you and I have won more games together than any quarterback and coach combination in the history of the NFL.

  Dan Marino

  Football, Winning, Games

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• Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

  Chief Seattle

  Native American, Order, Sea

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• It was a counter-attack and I had to take him down. I don't regret it and I would do it again if I had to.

  Thomas Gravesen

  Counter Attack, Terrorism, Ifs

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• It's better to be cautious and play it safe than regret pushing him too hard. We're supposed to get another read on it soon.

  Dick Vermeil

  Play, Safe, Pushing

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• We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Integrity, Vices, Ethics

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• The stuff I find attractive in women I always regret finding attractive. I always like a kind of madness in a woman... I like it when they hate me right from the beginning.

  Robert Pattinson

  Hate, Romance, Stuff

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• And I don't regret the rain
  Or the nights I felt the pain
  Or the tears I had to cry
  Some of those times along the way.
  Every road I had to take,
  Every time my heart would break,
  It was just something that I had to get through,
  To get me to you.

  Lila McCann

  Music, Pain, Rain

  Song: To Get Me to You

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• Chess is one long regret.

  Stephen Leacock

  Long, Chess

  Stephen Leacock (1943). “Happy stories, just to laugh at”

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• No regrets, none at all. My only regret is that we went out on penalties. That's my only regret but no, no regrets.

  Mick McCarthy

  Football, No Regrets, Penalties

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• My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not enough...I will see what others have invented. Even the eyes of all humanity are not enough. I regret that the brutes cannot write books. Very gladly would I learn what face things present to a mouse or a bee. More gladly still would I perceive the olfactory world charged with all the information and emotion it carries for a dog.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dog, Nature, Book

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• Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wine, Past, Cups

  Omar Khayyam (1859). “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-poet of Persia”, p.5

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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, Favors, Death Penalty

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• Whenever I have a birthday, I think back over the past year, how I've spent my time, what I've accomplished, what regrets I have, how I've tried to make the world a better place, and what exactly I've been doing with my life over the past 365 days, and I think to myself: 'Man, I wish I'd gotten laid more'.

  Richard M. Weiner

  Sex, Past, Men

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• When you hear that my body has ceased to exist, please do not feel sad. Just look deeply and see that my life and work continue in so many friends, so many young people, in their own ways and through their work. I will continue in everyone and everything I have ever touched. I have nothinng to fear and nothing to regret.

  Chan Khong

  Death, People, Looks

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• I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts.... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off .

  William Westmoreland

  Apology, Best Effort, Spats

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• There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. Every part of your life has unfolded just right. And so - now - knowing all that you know from where you now stand, now what do you want? The answers are now coming forth to you. Go forth in joy, and get on with it.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Life, Past

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• Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the
  past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I
  just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap.

  Townes Van Zandt

  Past, Men, Thinking

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• I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane) Alberto Santos-Dumont

  Alberto Santos-Dumont

  Brother, War, Airplane

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• If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.

  Bruce Lee

  Tomorrow, Should, Wanted

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• It is said that if our intention is to help others-even if we are unable to follow it through-we will never have any regret. Regret is a result of trying to make "me" happy.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Helping Others, Trying, Intention

  Sakyong Mipham (2005). “Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life”, p.61, Harmony

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• What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, but because you think I should be. I look back on the way I was. A young, stupid kid that committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try to talk some sense to him. Tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone, and this old man is all that's left.

  Stephen King

  Sorry, Stupid, Kids

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• He had regrets, of course, but not so many that he would lose any sleep over them. Life surprised him now and then and he didn't much care for surprises, unless he was passing them out. But - what was to be done? You had to deal with the reality, he had learned that over the years, no matter how much you didn't like it

  Steve Perry

  Sleep, Learning, Reality

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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, Hero, Home

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• When I'm old I'm never going to say,I didn't do this or, I regret that. I'm going to say,I don't regret a damn thing. I came, I went, and I did it all.

  Kim Basinger

  Damn, Don't Regret, I Regret

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