I quit the Knicks, so I know what quitting is. I did. I quit. And it’s something I regret to this day. I live with it every day, and I regret it. And I let my emotions come into it. And I was just emotionally spent. I made a bad decision, and I quit.
Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn’t turn out very well – you go, ‘Why did you do that?’ But in the end, I can’t regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.
I don’t regret anything and what I have done in my period of my life. Everything happens for a reason, and that’s why I am here.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released – to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don’t regret anything about that – on the contrary!
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.
Regret is a waste of time and energy and doesn’t do a thing for me.
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
I became a man in New York. New York made me the musician that I am and the person that I am, so it’s impossible for me to say I regret having lived there.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
My first-ever social medium was actually MySpace. But my first video ever was on YouTube – that’s when I thought I was a fashion guru – posting fashion stuff. I deleted all of those videos. And I regret doing that today, because I want to look back and see how baduy I was in seventh grade!
Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I’m going to regret it.
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.
Very few movies I’ve done I regret being involved in.
The World Cup is the World Cup, and I’m sad I won’t play in it; that’s my only regret. But to play a friendly with my national team, I did it many times, so it’s not something I’m missing.
I don’t regret a single decision of mine. Even if I made mistakes, they helped me evolve.
When I prepare for any tournament, I just feel that I want to give my best in the tournament as I may not get the next opportunity and I don’t want to regret it after this tournament.
I didn’t know where my career was going to go. Somehow, people sensed that I have certain talents and cast me in these bizarre, off-beat roles, which I have no regret about. I’ve enjoyed playing every one of them.
I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.
I regret the Pro Fit investment because I didn’t know that I was dealing with people who were more concerned about the exposure than fixing their business.
It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
I knew how to upset the people, and I did it in such a way that it was believable. That’s how I made a living at it for 20 years. I don’t regret a thing I done or said in wrestling. Nothing.
My only regret is that I didn’t get into acting ten years earlier when I was handsome!
Other men have created FTSE 100 companies. But I believe no man has done this in his lifetime without acquisition or borrowing. My one regret is handing over the reigns.
I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.
You can’t let regret stifle your creativity.
My father had always dreamed of getting a Ph.D., but certain life circumstances prevented him from following through. It was a tremendous, deep regret. The day I got my Ph.D., I saw in my father’s face what it meant that I had done this.
If, by deferring or maybe even skipping college entirely, students were foregoing their one hope for immersion in Western civilization, there would indeed be grounds for regret.
Religion features more now in my life than it did when I was a kid – my dad rejected the Catholic church as a young man. I had no religious upbringing, but certainly, Dad was a kind of secular humanist. I don’t know if he was an atheist or agnostic. I regret I didn’t talk to him about it.
Sometimes I regret that I don’t have a bit more fun with money. I should have spoilt myself a bit more. Life isn’t going to last for ever.
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
I think I’m designed to regret everything.
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.
We know that we’ve done and said things that hurt people. Inflicting pain on others wasn’t the goal, but it was one of the outcomes. We wish it weren’t so, and regret that hurt.
The thing I would hate myself for the most or regret the most is if I did not push myself to maximize my potential and my abilities.
Maybe there is some regret with how I left Southampton.
I regret that I had to leave my country. But I had to do it in order to achieve and decide my own fate. I was forced into it. Democracy came about 15 years too late for me. But I have to say that it’s there now, and Czech Republic is a fantastic country; it always was but just had the wrong regime at the top.
Regret leads to negativity, and negativity kills creativity.
I don’t regret putting ‘The Apprentice’ on television.
I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember… it’s not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
I don’t regret a single moment of staying away from the camera.
There are moments in your life where you realize you could do nothing, but if you do, you’ll probably regret it forever.
My one regret is that I didn’t win a trophy with Tottenham, despite us being a strong team who played good, attractive football.
I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they’re prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them.
I was once the captain of Akagi, and it is with heartfelt regret that I must now order that she be sunk.
I took responsibility for the illegal actions, the potential for violence in my past actions, which I regret.
I regret waiting until my mid-twenties to really start seeing the world. I think I should have taken more risks when I was younger and worried less about being ready to grow up.
I have done a lot of crazy things in my life, and I do not regret anything.
I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions.
‘ER’ was an all-consuming universe, but I don’t have a single regret. It gave me some of the greatest friendships I have and afforded me one of the rarest commodities in an actor’s life, which is the financial security to pick and choose jobs for factors besides the paycheck.
Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I’m just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.
Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.
I honestly regret that I haven’t done much work in Telugu, but work kept coming in from the other industries and I couldn’t turn those offers down.
I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal faith of our president, Mr. Obama.
I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.
Of course, there are days when you remember that what if I had continued irrespective of hits or flops, maybe I would have been in different place. I agree and accept that, but there is no need to regret because the 8-9 years I was away from cinema has also given me depth and changed me as a person.
We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
I’d walked away from ‘Come Dancing’ and gave ‘Blankety Blank’ the elbow when I felt the public had had enough. But I didn’t follow my instinct to escape from ‘Wogan,’ and was persuaded to continue for another two years. I kind of regret that.
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
