In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
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It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.
Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.
It__ my life and I__ not afraid to LIVE it! I would rather experience the ups and downs of a life I have chosen, than to suffer the regret of a life I have settled for.
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.
I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.
I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.
I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.