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Regret Quotes

I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism.

– Mathias Rust

When we grow old, there can only be one regret – not to have given enough of ourselves.

– Eleonora Duse

My last conversation with my father was an argument we’d had. When I came to know of his hospitalisation, I’d lost him within seven hours. I still regret the last conversation with him.

– Mouni Roy

I’m trying to make myself better. But I don’t regret anything that I’ve gone through, because it makes me who I am.

– Nick Carter

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.

– Maggie Gallagher

When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It’s only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it.

– Margo MacDonald

I stand by every movie that I did. I don’t regret any decision I made.

– Mila Kunis

Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without fear, love their neighbor even when they are cursed by him, and live without regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow.

– Mother Angelica

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

– Mary McCarthy

Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a cool nickname will regret it by getting just the opposite from his astronaut friends.

– Michael J. Massimino

It’s not like he called me up and asked me. They’ve never wanted to throw us into that world, and I think our decision probably shocked them. But I love my dad, and I think I’d regret it if I didn’t do this.

– Jenna Bush

Everything I did and continue to do happens for a reason, and honestly, I don’t regret much in my life.

– Jaime Pressly

The Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.

– The Bible

I’m never uncomfortable with anything I do. I never feel like I regret anything. I love music, you know? All kinds of music.

– Juicy J

If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.

– Jack Ma

If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It’s called a lobotomy.

– Kathryn Schulz

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

– Lucille Ball

It’s commonly said that people who’ve been ill in childhood and who’ve had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don’t look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that’s a help.

– John Keegan

I’m really quite conscious of clothes and the way they fit and don’t regret wearing anything. Not even the five-inch stack heels I wore with three-button high-waisters at comprehensive school. Regret is for wimps.

– Kevin McCloud

I don’t for a second regret my closeness to them because they were wonderful, golden parents who gave me so much confidence.

– Miriam Margolyes

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

– Kenko Yoshida

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.

– Lucille Ball

I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people – immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just failed. I look back and sometimes cringe. But one regret as I get older is that I haven’t been radical and wild enough.

– Michael Leunig

On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward.

– Luis Suarez

There is nothing to regret with a job well done.

– Joe Garcia

My only regret is the media’s obsession with the past.

– Ken Livingstone

I regret that I wasn’t the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.

– Julie Christie

But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison – two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.

– Jeffrey Archer

Oh, I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly. But that’s just part of the deal. I’m not really sure what’s going to come out of my mouth.

– Kathy Griffin

People do dollar cost averaging because they have regret of making one big mistake. But the fact of the matter is that, mathematically, the market rises more of the time than it falls. It falls, but it rises more of the time than it falls.

– Kenneth Fisher

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