Quotes About I Regret

#1. I cannot say that I regret my comparative insignificance, Importance may sometimes be purchased too dearly.

Jane Austen

#2. I've done a lot of things that I regret.

R. Kelly

#3. I ask why more than I should, some days I regret the decisions I make and most mornings I wake up on edge. The three don't often combine, but today I hit the shit trifecta.

Katie McGarry

#4. I regret that I have only a little bit of pocket lint to give to my country.

Nathan Hale

#5. To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.

Adolf Eichmann

#6. Never have I felt so separate from her. And I regret to say that there were moments when my deep and loving pity for her merged into a desire to kick her fairly hard.

Dodie Smith

#7. I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately, when the fate of the world is in question, you use whatever tools are available.

Brandon Sanderson

#8. I regret not getting brutally forthright with human beings a hell of a lot sooner than I did. Civility and obliquity are wasted on people who will not make the effort to be harsher or stricter on their own gooey egos than they are on other people.

Kenny Smith

#9. I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.

Dennis Quaid

#10. As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting prejudices that surround me, whether they affect homosexuals or men or the physically handicapped and I can't alone defeat them. They will not defeat me, either as a lesbian or a writer.

Jane Rule

#11. One of the things I regret is that too often in our society a person's whole identity is shaped by their sexuality, or by their sexual orientation. In good Catholic eyes, a person's sexual orientation does not matter.

Vincent Nichols

#12. I regret everything. But so what? At least I have cause.

Sebastian Horsley

#13. I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

John Gutfreund

#14. I regret that some on the extreme right have been so critical of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and have adamantly opposed the naming of a successor who shares her judicial philosophy and qualities. And their criticism actually reflects poorly upon them.

Patrick Leahy

#15. You think I regret saving your life?

Stephenie Meyer

#16. I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.

Bernard Tschumi

#17. There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange - I feel like I have to reinvent the wheel. There are poets who don't have to do that.

Joan Larkin

#18. I regret ... " Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice."
"What Choice?"
"Dauntless," he says. "I was born Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But I met her, and ... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision."
Her.

Veronica Roth

#19. Children born to-day may see the beginnings of a genuine state church in the Republic, with a hierarchy of live wires and a purely American theology. I regret that I am too old to wait for it, for if it comes it will be a lulu.

H.L. Mencken

#20. As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

H. Rider Haggard

#21. I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.

Lauren Bacall

#22. If we are going t stick to this damned quantum-jumping, then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory.

Erwin Schrodinger

#23. I don't talk about my past; people ask me about it. I've done things I'm ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I've done that I regret, I've never done twice. I work really hard at that.

Art Alexakis

#24. I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful.

Lamar Odom

#25. Do I regret getting married? It's hard for me to say anything because ultimately we're talking about the mother of my child.

Alec Baldwin

#26. Somebody told me I'm a writer. I believed them. Now I regret it.

Stefanos Livos

#27. Seurat's flowmetal face gleamed in the lights from his update ship's cockpit. Then I regret having been such an excellent teacher.

Brian Herbert

#28. When I'm feeling down on myself or not feeling good about who I am, or maybe something happened and I'm feeling depressed, I eat to fill that void. Afterwards I'll beat myself up about it. I regret doing it, but I'll turn around and do it again.

Janet Jackson

#29. I regret the stories we didn't do - the stories that we knew about and talked about but didn't have all of, so didn't publish. The whole idea of Gawker was to remove the barrier between the thought and the talk - and the page.

Nick Denton

#30. I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

Gavrilo Princip

#31. In retrospect, of course I regret calling them (Charlton fans) morons. Imbeciles would have been more appropriate.

Simon Jordan

#32. I regret that I can't sit in the stands and watch me.

Bo Belinsky

#33. Sometimes I regret waiting so long to have a child, but I don't make the rules. The universe decided it was going to take me a while to get to be a mom!

Constance Marie

#34. Why do I regret Chelsea? I'm the boss of the richest club in the world. I have not had much time to adjust myself, but I've found a great restaurant! That is the first thing I did when I arrived!

Carlo Ancelotti

#35. I would give a hundred Hemingways for one Stendhal or one Benjamin Constant. And I regret the influence of this literature on many young writers.
(1945)

Albert Camus

#36. Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#37. I regret my El Chapo interview didn't spark debate about the war on drugs.

Sean Penn

#38. I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.

George Lucas

#39. I think what I regret is that I would rather do something like that when I was a more established actress and I really had proven myself first. Now, people are still unsure whether I can act or not. I just don't want to be one of those girls who are playing off the show's popularity.

Megan Fox

#40. 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

#41. Sometimes I regret that the wonderful children's stories that have been made into movies were - people no longer read 'The Wizard of Oz'; they think they know the story. They don't know anything about all the bits and pieces they had to leave out.

Robin Hobb

#42. Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.

John Noble

#43. I cannot learn creation from other people; I've got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not studying - I don't know about harmonies, or anything, so if I'm composing a song, it's really hard.

Psy

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many persons. But there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians.

Charles Darwin

#47. This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing.

Ann Aguirre

#48. I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

F. Sionil Jose

#49. I will always cherish the times at JGR. The only thing that I regret is that we didn't win more races and/or championships.

Bobby Labonte

#50. The further I get, the more I regret how little I know ...

Claude Monet

#51. I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.

Nas

#52. Loving someone you don't deserve isn't easy. It hurts like hell. But not one moment of my time with Blaire would I regret.

Abbi Glines

#53. I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity.

Bill Gates

#54. I regret the things I didn't do, not what I did.

Ingrid Bergman

#55. When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn't carry on with it, which I regret.

Emilia Fox

#56. I love you so much that I regret having memories that don't include you.

Abigail Barnette

#57. No matter how you stack me. No matter how you arrange me. No matter how you look at me. I am still here and i am still the same person made of the same things. I regret nothing.

Pleasefindthis

#58. I am really Chloe Anthony Wofford. That's who I am. I have been writing under this other person's name. I write some things now as Chloe Wofford, private things. I regret having called myself Toni Morrison when I published my first novel, The Bluest Eye.

Toni Morrison

#59. I regret the 1998 - 99 lockout. I regret that we didn't work harder to educate our players and our owners about what the damage would be. I never can quite come up with the answer on what else we should have done, but I always blame a part of the problem on us and some part on the players.

David Stern

#60. I regret to say I'm
unable to reply to your unexpressed desires.

Harryette Mullen

#61. I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.

Augusto Pinochet

#62. No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

Samuel Beckett

#63. I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences ... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

Queen Latifah

#64. 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

#65. I became a Christian late, in my late 30s, so I had a lot of things that I was bringing into my Christian life that I regret. And I had a lot of questions about faith, so that's where I start when I write.

Francine Rivers

#66. He put a dark place in me and I can't forgive him for that. But it's a part of me now and how can I regret what I am - though it often makes me sad.

Valerie Martin

#67. I regret not starting to paint earlier ... It is one of the few things I do regret.

Francis Bacon

#68. I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?

Peter Tosh

#69. The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.

Elie Wiesel

#70. You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

Kate Winslet

#71. So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.

Kathy Griffin

#72. I regret having helped you clarify your past and having told you what I did.'
'Why?'
'Because I've instilled in your heart a feeling that wasn't there before: vengeance.

Alexandre Dumas

#73. I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal faith of our president, Mr. Obama.

Franklin Graham

#74. Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.

David Talbot

#75. And I would never give up. I've done terrible things I regret and terrible things I don't. But I don't need to be fixed. I don't need to be saved. I just have to keep going.

Michelle Hodkin

#76. I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world.

Ludovico Ariosto

#77. He thought he saw a Rattlesnake
That questioned him in Greek:
He looked again, and found it was
The Middle of Next Week.
'The one thing I regret,' he said,
'Is that it cannot speak!

Lewis Carroll

#78. I regret having to play the role of Cassandra once more and having to disappoint the fresh hopes of certain ever hopeful colleagues, but there is no possible evolution in a totalitarian society.

Albert Camus

#79. Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret.

Kate Mosse

#80. I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.

Robert Breault

#81. Yes," Jace said, "I regret having disobeyed you."
No! Clary thought, but her heart sank. Was he giving up, did he think it was the only way to save her and Simon?
Valentine's face softened. "Jonathan-"
"Especially," Jace said, "since I plan to do it again. Right now.

Cassandra Clare

#82. I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.

Elizabeth I

#83. I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

Ted Turner

#84. Alas! I regret that I am taken from you; and, happy and beloved as I have been, is it not hard to quit you all? But these are not thoughts befitting me; I will endeavor to resign myself cheerfully to death, and will indulge a hope of meeting you in another world.

Mary Shelley

#85. Of course I do not regret the Bond days, I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent.

Roger Moore

#86. on page 96 of my hero Peter Medawar's book The Limits of Science: 'I regret my disbelief in God and religious answers generally, for I believe it would give satisfaction and comfort to many in need of it if it were possible to discover good scientific and philosophic reasons to believe in God.

Richard Dawkins

#87. I regret all of my books.

Zora Neale Hurston

#88. The more I live, the more I regret how little i know

Claude Monet

#89. I'm not naturally a gifted dancer, and I don't enjoy it. I didn't go to any of those classes in drama school 'cause I was like, "I'm not going to dance. I don't need to learn to dance." I regret that.

Richard Madden

#90. You can get stuck in the trap of reading your YouTube comments all the time. Sometimes I regret it. Not everyone is going to love you. And for some reason, stand-up has this thing where everyone thinks they can do it. So everyone thinks they're an expert.

Kumail Nanjiani

#91. Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."

Ernest Hemingway,

#92. I can make a case that I regret nothing. After all, most of my mistakes turned out to be things I survived, or turned into funny stories, or, on occasion, even made money from.

Nora Ephron

#93. Sometimes I regret not being Catholic. I think I'd make a pretty good saint.

Zach Braff

#94. Sometimes I regret going into that public toilet with your father.'
'Then practice safe sex, Mama!!'
'We were! There was a fight in the bar and we took cover in the public toilets!!

Jonathan Dunne

#95. Each time I changed, it was as if, on purpose, I didn't want anyone to know too much about me, which of course now I regret, because I closed myself to everything. But it was my way of dealing with things.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#96. I fear nothing and I regret less.

John Cena

#97. I regret that I cannot do my duty as a true modern, by cursing everybody who made me whatever I am. I am not clear about what that is; but I am pretty sure that most of it is my own fault.

G.K. Chesterton

#98. I regret the way that America has elected to make films for its bluntest section of society and in ways that flatter them, and we have to recognize how much that is being done for money. We have to find another way of measuring ourselves. And film is one of the few ways that might be done.

Edward Jay Epstein

#99. In doing my podcast, I do find that I tend to try out bits that I then try on stage later that day. If they work, great, and if they don't, I regret having talked about it on the podcast.

Kurt Braunohler

#100. I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

Catherine Deneuve