Regret Quotes - Page 40

• If I had to live again I would do exactly the same thing. Of course I have regrets, but if you are 60 years old and you have no regrets then you haven't lived.

  Christy Moore

  Birthday, Years, Courses

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• When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.

  Edward Abbey

  Mind, Midnight, Riding

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• I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

  Edward Abbey

  Suffering, Half, Pursuit

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.43, RosettaBooks

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• When I think of death, I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore unless the Indians are right and my spirit will walk here after I'm gone.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Beautiful, Country, Thinking

  Maria Costantino, Georgia O'Keeffe (1994). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Smithmark Pub

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• You'll regret the day you ever messed with Philadelphia Collins and sons

  Phil Collins

  Son, Philadelphia

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• There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim
  I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in

  Laura Marling

  Rivers, House, Swim

  Song: Alas I Cannot Swim, 2008

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• The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us so full of longing to the sea.

  Sebastian Barry

  Struggle, Animal, Sea

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.115, Faber & Faber

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• To be honest and truthful in all endeavours is an experience, not a regret

  Fela Kuti

  Honest, Truthful, Endeavour

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• I did it my way, and I have no regrets when I look back on my career that it was just a big focus for me.

  Pete Sampras

  Careers, Focus, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.

  Bjorn Borg

  Careers, Tennis, Guy

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• I deeply regret to say that terrorism has become globalized: ' From New York to Mosul, from Damascus to Baghdad, from the Easternmost to the Westernmost parts of the world, from Al-Qaeda to Daesh'. The extremists of the world have found each other and have put out the call: 'extremists of the world unite'. But are we united against the extremists?

  Hassan Rouhani

  New York, Baghdad, World

  "Iran's Dinner Diplomacy" by Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. September 26, 2014.

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• Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.

  Vaclav Havel

  Self Confidence, Pride, Listening To Others

  New Year's Address to the Nation, Prague, January 01, 1990.

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• Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Breakup, War, Opportunity

  "The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan". Le Nouvel Observateur Interview, www.globalresearch.ca. January, 1998.

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• Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Self, Evil

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is, physically it has changed remarkably little. People's feelings about it, rather, have changed. The neighborhood shows a strange inability to update itself, enliven itself, repair itself, or to be sought after, out of choice, by a new generation. It is dead. Actually it was dead from birth, but nobody noticed this much until the corpse began to smell.

  Jane Jacobs

  Years, Smell, People

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• At peace? Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could live even a day and not feel the sweet ache of regret?

  Jess Walter

  Sweet, Thinking, Insane

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• The only thing we can control is what we do in the present. The more we replay yesterday, the further we get from today's opportunities. And the further away we move from opportunities, the tougher the road is to get back. Opportunities never look as good coming as they do going, and they wait for no one. We need to be highly attentive to spot them. And we must be focused on our present capabilities, not past regrets.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Leadership, Moving

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• In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity - and it was an atrocity.

  Oliver Stone

  Sorry, Hard Work, Media

  "Oliver Stone: ‘Jewish Domination Of The Media’ Propagates Holocaust Myths". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010.

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• Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.

  Darin Strauss

  Crazy, Want, Pebbles

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.178, Random House

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• No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity; – for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Desire, Too Late, Infinity

  "The Book of Delusions". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1936.

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• A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Feet, Easy, Pessimist

  "The Book of Delusions". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1936.

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• Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Pay, Damage, Indifference

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, World, Paradise

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On the other hand, with our constant struggle, this had to be done together with others in the communist world to stop Kampuchea becoming Vietnamese.

  Pol Pot

  Struggle, Hands, Together

  "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.

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• The consequence could be that we would have an escalation that would take place that would not only involve many lives, but I think it could consume the Middle East in a confrontation and a conflict that we would regret.

  Leon Panetta

  Thinking, Middle East, Conflict

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