I Regret Quotes

Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.

I would regret it if I'd failed at school and university, because if I had, I would have lacked the levels of education necessary to making a serious contribution to building South Africa.

Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?

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

He treated me like a son and I let him down. I must take some responsibility for him getting the sack. I regret letting him down so much.

I regret the fact that Saddam [Hussein] didn't have weapons of mass destruction that we thought. I don't regret removing him from power.

Pick-a-lock, Pick-a-lock, you'll regret the day, When you took a mouse thief and locked him away, Silly cat, look at that, it's two for one, A thief and a warrior, by dawn will be gone.

I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.

A sense of acquiring more mistakes and regrets the older you get, but also deeper growth in learning from these things. The value of experience.

Regret is something you’ve got to just live with, you can’t drink it away. You can’t run away from it. You can’t trick yourself out of it. You’ve just got to own it.

The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret.

I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.

The only thing you live to regret are the risks you didn't take

Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets.

But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei

Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.

Doubt, fear and regret are the three villains of success. If you close the door on the first two, you will never have to worry about meeting the third.

Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.

Every time I've strayed from the beaten path I've never regretted it.

The boogeyman sleeps on your side of the bad Whispers in my ear :"Better of Dead" Fills my dreams with sirens and lights of regret Kisses me gently when i wake up in a sweat "boo!

While it is a cause for regret that Fischer did not continue to produce scintillating games, he perhaps had a greater impact on chess than any other twentieth century player

I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.

It is a matter of regret that many low, mean suspicions turn out to be well founded.

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.

If I have one regret in my career, it is that I did not join Rangers a lot sooner.

When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine.

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.

I commit to most things I do in life, so I don't really have any serious regrets. But I'll say this: There are plenty of people that I wish I could un-meet. It's kind of an L.A. syndrome.

Usually you regret the things you say no to.

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.

In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.

How do you regret one of the best nights of your entire life? You don't. You remember every word, every look. Even when it hurts, you still remember.

I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn't expect was to feel so much grief.

We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our industry for their livelihoods.

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

Don't wear excessive make-up as you grow older. Young women can wear whatever make-up they want, but if you are older, you will regret it.

Better ten days of love than years of regretting.

I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can’t. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result.

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

Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians.

It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.

Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be a baseball player than a musician. Now, like most kids, I regret it.

Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

Regret is… an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today.

I don't look back. I'm like a shark - I only look forward.

No regrets, only choices.

While I have some regrets that this is my last opportunity to deliver a State of the State address, I appreciate and am humbled by the opportunities this great state has given me.