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Regret Quotes

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that’s even possible, interested me.

– Ian Mcewan

I do regret that when I went to college, I didn’t have a liberal arts education. I got a BFA in musical theater, so it was a very directed toward what I was doing. I wish that I had expanded my horizons a little bit.

– Heather Dubrow

I think people assume I’m perfect. I’m not. I make mistakes. I do things I regret. I’m stubborn.

– Hilary Duff

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

– Herbert Croly

My biggest regret is that I didn’t teach my two children how to speak Spanish.

– Henry Darrow

Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.

– Hilary Mantel

I think I don’t regret a single ‘excess’ of my responsive youth – I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.

– Henry James

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

– Henry David Thoreau

My biggest, you know, regret is what happened in Benghazi. It was a terrible tragedy losing four Americans – two diplomats and, now it’s public so I can say, two CIA operatives.

– Hillary Clinton

When you get older, it’s not about what you did that you regret, it’s what you didn’t do.

– Grace Slick

I regret not paying a bit more attention to Welsh lessons at school. My Welsh is pretty ropey, as back at my school, people didn’t take Welsh lessons seriously. My dad can speak it, so I wish he’d taught me some growing up.

– Geraint Thomas

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

– Henri Frederic Amiel

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

– J. Edgar Hoover

I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in ‘The Leopard,’ in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. ‘Phantom’ has less blood.

– Jo Nesbo

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.

– James Nesbitt

It’s better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.

– Jackie Joyner-Kersee

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I’ve come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

– J. K. Rowling

I’ve done some stinkers in the cinema. You can’t regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it’s just the location.

– John Hurt

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.

– John C. Calhoun

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.

– James Altucher

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn’t work out how I hoped, oh well – there’s another notch on my experience belt.

– Isaac Marion

I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.

– Jamie Lee Curtis

I have spent more time with other people’s books than with my own. I do not regret it.

– Italo Calvino

I don’t regret any decisions I’ve made in my life.

– Gladys Knight

I definitely regret the surgeries that I have had over the years, I think I was so young and in such an unstable situation in my life with so much going on and so much pressure.

– Heidi Montag

Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last ‘Harry Potter’ film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

– Ian Watson

The consequences of ignoring the Lord and His prophets are certain and often accompanied by great sorrow and regret.

– Joseph B. Wirthlin

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

– Jim Carrey

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.

– John Major

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

– Jean Cocteau

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