Top 100 Quotes About Regretted
#1. Nothing is so much to be regretted as the universe.
Stephen Crane
#2. I know crazy when I see it." The moment the words flew out of my mouth I regretted them. Sometimes when you see the line, you think it's a good idea to cross it--until you do.~Noah
Katie McGarry
#3. There was more than one type of guilt. You might do something horrible that you later regretted. But you could also feel guilty for something you'd not done!
Joseph Delaney
#4. My grandparents came worked hard, and I believe they never regretted their decision to come here and make a new start.
Samuel Alito
#5. You can't stay young forever. Being young is a privilege. God knows, how many of them in their death bed wished to be young again and they regretted all the things they should have and should not have done.
Diyar Harraz
#6. He spoke as a disappointed man, for whom perfection existed only as something remembered - and then regretted, because it was lost.
Eleanor Catton
#7. I've had some pretty good arguments with people, but I've never regretted it. I've had people come up where it's all emotion and no fact. That's always sad.
Patton Oswalt
#8. I have never regretted our foolhardiness. Of course, we made mistakes, endless mistakes, but at least they were our own, just as the garden was our own.
Margery Fish
#9. Ah, there you are," said Scarsbury. "George Lovelace was beside himself. He wanted to assemble a search party for you." Simon regretted his spiteful thoughts about George's horsemanship. "Let me guess," said Simon. "Everyone else said 'Nah, being left for dead builds character.
Cassandra Clare
#10. I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk.
Otto Von Bismarck
#11. I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#12. I've always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago.
John Travolta
#13. And the moral of this story is?" asked Amber, and immediately regretted it because it didn't sound tough and bored at all, just snotty. "That everything looks small on paper," Meoraq replied. "But in Gann's world, shit happens." The
R. Lee Smith
#14. There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.
Robert A. Heinlein
#15. He regretted nothing. Not the way she'd felt in his arms and not the way he'd felt in hers.
Jill Shalvis
#16. I did 'Degrassi' for five years in Toronto, and I made the decision to quit the show to go to theatre school, which a lot of people thought I was really crazy to do, but it was one of those major decisions in my life that I haven't regretted - hopefully I won't! I really wanted to go to school.
Jake Epstein
#17. Drustan didn't tell me either. He regretted that later, when I kissed Dageus because I thought he was Drustan. Drustan didn't care for it one bit. They're possessive about their women, but I'm sure you know that. I'm Gwen, by the way, Drustan's wife.
Karen Marie Moning
#18. I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.
Walter Cronkite
#19. I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.
Umar
#20. Obediance, when it flows out of genuine love for Jesus Christ, is never wasted and never regretted.
Leslie Ludy
#21. I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.
Robert Smith
#22. His heart missed a beat and never regretted the lovely loss.
Vladimir Nabokov
#23. How many can honestly say that they never fell in love with someone else along the way, someone they didn't pursue because they'd made a vow to stay with their spouse? How many would say they regretted that choice?
Holly Chamberlin
#24. I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.
Charles Darwin
#25. It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building.
John Ruskin
#26. Various circumstances, mainly to do with my military service, prevented me from doing a Ph.D., and I have often regretted it, though you do need to choose the 'right' supervisor in the 'right' discipline - no easy task when you are totally inexperienced.
Yves Chauvin
#27. I'm gay."
"Oh. Of course." Immediately, Martin regretted saying "of course". He should have acted surprised. People are flattered if you act surprised when they come out, something Martin thought was stupid and vaguely homophobic but...
Marshall Thornton
#28. Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
George Halas
#29. The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.
Samuel Johnson
#30. Hey, sister buzz-kill," she said languorously to Jen. "What crawled up your ass and died?"
"I don't know," Jen retorted. "What died and crawled up your ass?"
There were times I regretted being an only child. This wasn't one of them.
Jacqueline Carey
#31. She only regretted the time wasted, what was left unsaid. Undone. That if she'd learned something from what had happened, it was that you needed to live life to the fullest. Every day. Balls to the wall. Afraid of nothing. Much less of possible pain to come. Giving yourself unconditionally.
Elle Aycart
#32. Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.
Lisa Kleypas
#33. He took her hand without question, without fear, and he never regretted it.
Jessica Fortunato
#34. For me, writing's the only thing that's always real. I've never regretted a day I wrote a good scene, whatever else I screwed up that day. That's what's fucking real.
Scott Westerfeld
#35. I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.
Linus Torvalds
#36. Dancing was the only activity he enjoyed with a woman, and he regretted that court dancing was no longer in vogue. If you want to bed a woman, do it in the bedroom. If you want to seduce her, do it in the dance.
Anne Bishop
#37. The general never regretted his early marriage, or regarded it as a foolish youthful escapade; and he so respected and feared his wife that he was very near loving her.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#39. Probably the most important piece of advice that I've ever gotten is to develop your mind. I left school very young and I always regretted it.
Stephanie Seymour
#40. I hope our paths will cross again." "Really? In that case, I guess I'll keep following you." She regretted the joke for half a breath before Kai laughed. A real laugh, and her chest warmed.
Marissa Meyer
#41. God knows I'm not perfect, either. I've made tons of stupid mistakes, and later I regretted them. And I've done it over and over again, thousands of times; a cycle of hollow joy and vicious self-hatred. But even so, every time I learned something about myself
-Misato Katsuragi
Hideaki Anno
#42. The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.
Phyllis McGinley
#43. God called me many years ago to be an evangelist, and I have never regretted His leading. I love the crusades, meeting people from every country and culture all over the world. My life has been blessed by friends from every land, and challenges from every corner.
Billy Graham
#44. Decisions made quickly were almost always regretted quickly.
J.D. Robb
#45. She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything. And then, after the regret had flared and burned out, she didn't care. He should know, she thought. She wanted him to know. She felt something for somebody, and she'd told him.
Nick Hornby
#46. I love you. There hasn't been a single day in the last 15 years that I haven't regretted not telling you when I had a chance.
Katherine Allred
#48. She had been impulsive all her life, made decisions without thought for the future, and regretted none of them, however dotty. Looking back, all she regretted were the opportunities missed, either because they had come along at the wrong time or because she had been too timid to grasp them.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#49. In all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.
Nicholas Sparks
#50. Don't make me regret this", I said breathless. "You haven't regretted me once.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#51. There's such a thing as free will, Tanner. You didn't have to go along with me, unless you want to admit your brain is ruled by your dick. And I didn't get the impression you regretted any of that.
Alastair Reynolds
#52. When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you're too big and fat to do anything else.' Well, I took his advice. It was a quick way to get to the big leagues, and I've never regretted it.
Joe Torre
#53. I regret things all the time. I've never regretted not saying something. I've only regretted saying something.
Chrissy Teigen
#54. I did not want to live a life with regrets. You only regretted the shit you didn't do.
Karina Halle
#55. No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.
Thomas More
#56. Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
Ouida
#57. I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.
Czeslaw Milosz
#58. You have sacrified so much. And our Clan walks a safer path now. With this life, I give you pride, so that you may know your own worth and the worth of your Clan. Thank you for raising Whitestorm. You were chosen long ago, and StarClan has never regretted its choice.
Erin Hunter
#59. It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
Farrah Fawcett
#60. I've learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.
Jack Welch
#61. Not that I regretted having Annie; I'd never felt that way for a second. I just regretted that I'd never had a chance to live the life I'd thought I was supposed to.
Kristin Harmel
#62. I instantly regretted my comeback but that's the thing about unkind words. You can try to undo the damage, but (a) it's hard when you're all coffee-ed up, and (b) you can't take it back, ever.
Rachel Cohn
#63. Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.
Bill Watterson
#64. It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband ... but no sooner is he domesticated than he becomes polygamous, and makes nothing of owning ten or a dozen wives at a time.
Isabella Beeton
#65. He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.
Melina Marchetta
#66. I've found the things I've regretted most in my life are the things I wanted to do but never had the courage to try. And I'm beginning to think I don't want you to become one of my what-if-I'd-only-tried-it regrets.
Linda Kage
#67. No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
Sydney Pollack
#68. Instantly I regretted my decision. It was one of those times when you hear yourself saying something, and it seems like a good idea at the time, but once you blurt it out you can hardly believe it's you speaking. What was I thinking?
Tara Shuler
#69. You have to know, from the moment I saw you outside Paradise High, I knew. I knew we were going to fall in love. And I've never regretted even a second of it. Not even now. I love you with all my heart. I always will. It was ... it was all worth it. - Sarah Hart
Pittacus Lore
#70. Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur over this, that, and the other.
Michael Dirda
#71. You don't have to speak. Words fade," she whispered. "I know that better than anyone. Words are forgotten; they are regretted.Unnecessary. I know.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#72. I have always regretted instances in which I failed to live up to the highest standards of conduct or principles of compassion that I cherish and teach. Being human, I anticipate regretting future failures.
K. Lee Lerner
#73. ( ... ) always regretted that good memory often prevents us from thinking for ourselves.
Frank Harris
#74. Arsenius the Great: I have often regretted the things I have said, but I have never regretted my silence.
Evgenij Vodolazkin
#75. I have never known a man who received Christ and ever regretted it.
Billy Graham
#76. I'm prone to tangential digressions, but I've never regretted being remarkably inconsistent:it's led me to fascinating people and interesting stories.
Natalie MacLean
#77. I have never, ever, EVER met anyone who's regretted following their heart.
Marie Forleo
#78. In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation.
Benjamin Franklin
#79. Even though his heart would be broken when he finally had to part from her, and he regretted he couldn't marry her, he wasn't sorry he had spent these days with her.
Melanie Dickerson
#80. No one looks back and regrets leaving this world. What's regretted is how real we thought it was.
Rumi
#82. We ran three cars last year. Unfortunately, as time went on, we did have to let a few people go, which we regretted, but just because of the situation.
Bobby Rahal
#83. Nobody who has ever given his best has regretted it.
George Halas
#84. I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
E. O. Wilson
#85. I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I've heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.
David Bowie
#86. Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I've spent on friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and causes I believe in.
Sam Altman
#87. I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that [do] matter.
Ric Elias
#88. Nobody whoever gave their best ever regretted it.
George Halas
#89. Yes, I know, if the American Indians had enforced such a policy none of us pale-faced honkies would be here. But the Indians were foolish, and divided, and failed to keep our WASP ancestors out. They've regretted it ever since.
Edward Abbey
#90. How could she have been so ungrateful? She envied the French singer who regretted nothing. She regretted all.
Lori Lansens
#91. I sometimes regretted to be handsomer; I sometimes wished to have rosy cheeks, a straight nose, and a small cherry mouth; I desired to be tall, stately, and finely developed in figure ... And why had I these aspirations and these regrets? It would be difficult to say
Charlotte Bronte
#92. Clyde's mother was an ample, olive-dark woman with the worn and disappointed look of someone who had spent her life doing things for others: occasionally the mulling plaintiveness of her voice suggested that she regretted this.
Truman Capote
#94. If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it.
Tim Gunn
#95. I never hated you. My anger was never with you, but with the little hell my heart had put me in. The anger always passed. I never regretted loving you. If I had gone to my grave never kissing you or touching you, I still would not have thought it a wasted love.
Madeline Hunter
#96. No man ever followed his genius till it misled him. Though the result were bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one can say that the consequences were to be regretted, for these were a life in conformity to higher principles.
Henry David Thoreau
#97. I spent the better part of the afternoon and evening playing Scrabble with Deacon. I think he regretted asking me to play, because I was one of those Scrabble players - the kind who played three-letter words every chance I got.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#98. Ove stomped forward. The cat stood up. Ove stopped. They stood there measuring up to each other for a few moments, like two potential troublemakers in a small-town bar. Ove considered throwing one of his clogs at it. The cat looked as if it regretted not bringing its own clogs to lob back.
Fredrik Backman
#99. I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.
Mitt Romney
#100. daughter had had a way of saying things that rubbed Nora the wrong way. More often than not, they both ended up saying something they regretted.
Kristin Hannah
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