Regret Quotes - Page 53

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

I've never regretted a swim

My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.

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.

I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

Imagine ... Imagine no religion.

We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.

My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)

Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons

Until we have finally accepted the fact that there is nothing we can do to change the past, our feelings of regret and remorse and bitterness will prevent us from designing a better future with the opportunity that is before us today.

If you love somebody; You better let it out; Don't hold it back; While you're trying to figure it out; Cause the only real pain a heart can ever know; Is the sorrow of regret; When you don't let your feelings show. So, did you say it, Did you mean it?

When we hold onto the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and regrets about what we should have done or should have become. Conscience recognizes wrong and tries to atone. But guilt turns into resentment. Conscience brings us closer to each other; guilt drives us apart. Create a new feeling. Every time guilt settles in your stomach, write "I forgive" on a piece of paper. Send it up the chimney, tear it up and flush it, put it in the garbage. Don't eat it.

I had enough time being single to know I have no regrets about being married!

I quit the Knicks so I know what quitting is, I did. I quit. And it's something I regret to this day. I live with it every day and I regret it. And I let my emotions come into it. And I was just emotionally spent. I made a bad decision and I quit.

Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes.

Believe me - I've done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don't regret the crazy stuff.

The only possible regret I have is the feeling that I will die without having played enough tennis.

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.

Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

Don't regret your mistakes. You'll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.

My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it.

I have no regrets, none whatsoever.

If you really want to know, I’d rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thing’s done now, of course, and I can’t alter it. But there will always be this regret at the back of my mind, I shall never quite be able to get rid of it, and it will spoil everything. The thing to do now is to grow old quickly, to eat up the years as fast as possible, looking neither right nor left.