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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.
A sign of the death of the heart: lack of sadness about beneficial actions you have missed, and lack of regret about your mistakes.
It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.
There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.
Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.
I didn't want to hurt you," she blurted. "I never wanted to be someone you would regret. I'm not afraid for me. I'm afraid for you.
If you ask my one regret, it is that I could not bring those City fans a trophy. That's the only thing that leaves me a little sad.
I don't want to rush into retirement and regret it, because people say play as long as possible until the legs can't take any more.
I push myself as hard as I can every day so I can achieve my goals and so I feel I have nothing to regret later on after my career.
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
Crashing into the trembling void Stretching my hand to you Losing myself to frigid regret Is this fragile love A way To say Good-bye
You mustn't regret decisions that you make. Because the decisions are made out of your gut in a way and you have to stick with them.
One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
The thing I would hate myself for the most or regret the most is if I did not push myself to maximize my potential and my abilities.
I haven't done anything I regret; I don't live for regrets. I'm not a mean person, so I don't go around doing evil things to people.
My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict.
I don't regret pulling the trigger. I should have been more careful with many of the things I said afterwards. That was a big regret.
I regret not having enough training, I trained for a year at The Royal Court, but I very quickly went off to do films and television.
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.
In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.
As a son and as a father, there are still various things that I haven't done as well as I should have - that's my dilemma and regret.
Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.
I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the contrary!
Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.
Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.
Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret.
Don't be afraid of girls. That is my big regret. Knowing what I know about girls, I should have just gone for it. Guys are such wimps.
My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.
I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.
Given the opportunity, I might change a choice I made, but you can't regret making what you thought was the best decision at the time.
Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So, love the people who treat you right and forget about the ones who do not.
O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret.
I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation.
As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret.
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
One of the things I try to do - and I always regret when I'm not doing it - is I try to read as much as possible as I'm consuming news.
I don't have regrets I didn't spend more time with my family because I've lived my life to the full, and you can't look back in regret.
Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.
Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no".
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.
I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.
While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.
I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton. Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened.
Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.
I'm very versatile and there's nothing I really regret in my life. I'm excited with who I am and I'm just going to keep riding the wave.
Last night I made an insensitive comment which I sincerely regret. It was my mistake and I want to apologize to those who were offended.
The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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.