Regret Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion, or with any other feeling than regret and hope and brotherly commiseration.

  John Keats

  Hope, Religious, Men

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• I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.

  Horace Greeley

  Public Opinion, Would Be, Opinion

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• Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.

  Hakuun Yasutani

  Weed, Hate, Fall

  Hakuun Yasutani (1996). “Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Dōgen's Genjōkōan”, Shambhala Publications

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• When it is time to part, then it is time to part. There should be no regrets. The beauty of marriage is like the fleeting perfection of a snowflake.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Perfection, Fleeting, Snowflake

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• I regret that I can't sit in the stands and watch me.

  Bo Belinsky

  Watches, Watch Me, I Can

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• The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative. I am neither liberal, nor conservative, nor gradualist, nor monk, nor indifferentist. I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

  Anton Chekhov

  Artist, People, Lines

  Anton Chekhov (2009). “Selected Stories of Anton Chekov”, p.12, Modern Library

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• I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Lectures, Facts

  Alfred North Whitehead (1920). “The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November, 1919”, Cambridge University Press

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• I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Food, Eggs, Cooking

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband.....but no sooner is he domesticated than he becomes polygamous, and makes nothing of owning ten or a dozen wives at a time.

  Isabella Beeton

  Husband, Food, Character

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• Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done.

  Chad Michael Murray

  Motivational, Done, Havens

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• If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.

  Confucius

  Life, Morning, Men

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.135

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• My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

  Richard E. Grant

  Father, Drama, Age

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• Films have been my only passion in life. I have always been proud of making films and will continue taking pride in all my films. I have never made a movie I have not believed in. However, though I love all my films, one tends to get attached to films that do well. But I do not have any regrets about making films that did not really do well at the box office.

  Yash Chopra

  Passion, Pride, Office

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

  Edward Abbey

  Life, Grief, Bullshit

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency - a nation I so deeply love and an institution I so greatly respect.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Pain, War, Mistake

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• All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Stress, Failure

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

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• No reserves. No retreats. No regrets.

  William Whiting Borden

  Missionary, Retreat, Motto

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• If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep...An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

  Patti Smith

  Sorry, Artist, Rocks

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• I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a proselyte to the doctrine, that public debts are public benefits. I consider them, on the contrary, as evils which ought to be removed as fast as honor and justice will permit.

  James Madison

  Government, Evil, Justice

  James Madison (1904). “The Writings of James Madison: 1787-1790”

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• A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where he can do mischief - even by pogroms, if necessary. The Jews are responsible for Bolshevism in Russia, and Germany too. I was far too indulgent with them during my reign, and I bitterly regret the favors I showed the prominent Jewish bankers.

  Wilhelm II

  Russia, Bankers, Germany

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• But there's no way to avoid regret. Don't let anybody tell you different. Regret is just life's aftertaste. No matter what you choose, you're gonna wonder if you shoulda done things different. I didn't necessarily choose wrong. I just chose. And I lived with my choice, aftertaste and all.

  Amy Harmon

  Choices, Different, Done

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• Having a financial adviser enables the investor to carry a psychological call option. If the investment decision turns out well, the investor takes the credit, and if it turns out badly, the regret can be lowered by blaming the adviser.

  Hersh Shefrin

  Decision, Credit, Blame

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• Alan Paul plunges into Chinese life and takes us along for the ride, through vegetable markets, used-car lots, Taoist temples, divey bars, and a beachside music festival before thousands of cheering fans. He conveys the thrills and challenges of living abroad, the confusions and regrets, and most of all the opportunity to become the person we always hoped to be.

  Peter Hessler

  Cheer, Opportunity, Vegetables

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• I've made mistakes but the beauty of life is that each regret builds character and makes us a better person

  Vitor Belfort

  Mistake, Character, Life Is

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