I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.
To be honest, and I may regret saying this, the idea of playing the same character for a very long time is very daunting to me.
I was bullied at school, and I let that get hold of me and withdrew into myself – I regret letting that happen.
If you find yourself caring about old stories and regret the ways in which they slip out of reach of young audiences, you may well conjure up the means to put these tales into young peoples imaginations.
I was always fearful I would become That Guy. The guy who had regret. ‘Yeah, we won a couple of championships, but I never saw my kids grow up. Yeah, we beat Georgia a couple of times, but I ruined my marriage.’
I think I do regret leaving Kentucky because I took over a team with 15 wins banking everything on the Tim Duncan lottery, and once we didn’t get Tim Duncan, I realized that leaving Kentucky was not a good move.
I don’t regret my decision that I left a popular show like ‘Balika Vadhu.’ I am happy that I am out of the show and took a break for a month in Delhi.
My fear of coming out wasn’t about rejection. I was scared people would say: ‘Why were you lying to me? If you’ve been lying about that what else are you lying about?’ Lying is my biggest regret.
I don’t regret turning out in the colours of Super Eagles. I love Nigeria, and I was prepared to come and play for the nation.
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.
I hear people in their 20s describe the 40s as a far-off decade of too-late, when they’ll regret things that they haven’t done. But for older people I meet, the 40s are the decade that they would most like to travel back to.
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.
I work a lot abroad and have the most wonderful family and kids, but being away, you do miss out sometimes. I really hope I won’t regret the choices in the future.
I don’t regret having been fat at all.
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.
I started my career because if I’d have done anything else, I would regret it. I truly feel this career chose me more than I chose it. I would say that it’s for something greater than me with a little of the creative fulfillment that comes with it splashed in there.
I don’t regret anything, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t look back and think, ‘What was I thinking?’
Most young talented players I worked with over many, many years who I’ve met later have said, ‘Oh, I wish I’d listened to you.’ When you meet them later in life they regret not taking the opportunity with the talent they had.
I don’t think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
I’m disappointed that I really haven’t been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don’t regret giving this a go.
If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.
I chose to be in business, and I don’t regret it.
My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don’t regret anything I’ve done.
I’m very grateful for what I have. I’m old enough that I can mort out at any minute without any sense of regret at all. That’s not true. I might look back and think I wish I hadn’t been so selfish when my kids were smaller. But I’m not overwhelmed by regret.
To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.
I’ll teach my kids right from wrong, but I’m never going to teach them that they can’t have fun. They’ll make mistakes; they’ll do things they regret, like we all have.
There are things you’re supposed to learn in life. My biggest regret was terminating a pregnancy when I was about 18. Every day, I think about who that baby would be now; it still makes me sad.
Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.
Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.
He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.
When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won’t end up in a situation that you regret later on.
As long as youre happy where you are now, you cant really regret anything youve done.
Everything ‘Atonement’ does, it does incredibly well, including depicting characters of varying ages and temperaments and showing the intensity of early romantic love and connection and the very different intensity of haunting regret.
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.
People always tell me I’m going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?
I regret something about every single one of my roles. I always, always have something to regret about them, because I just think I didn’t do well enough with them.
I have soaked this league up for everything it’s worth. I’ve had fun. Made some great relationships. I don’t regret anything. Don’t regret being in Kansas City. It’s all been very good to me. So why would I take that approach? There will be no pity party thrown here.
If you were a Democrat getting ready to run for office in the 2000s, as I was, you were told to stay clear of guns… I really regret that. I regret having listened to that advice.
I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.
I don’t regret anything in life.
Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don’t you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls – some as long ago as the Seventies.
‘Emeril’ came on the air right when a new president of NBC was taking over, and there was just a big shift going on. And then 9/11 happened, and that really pretty much killed it, because the show was already having a hard time finding an audience. I don’t regret it. I had a really good time.
I don’t like the word ‘regret.’
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.
One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that’s even possible, interested me.
September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don’t want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
I don’t regret my time there at all. I wasn’t the main girlfriend in the relationship. Hef and Holly were the ones talking about possible marriage and having kids, and I knew I was never going to do that kind of thing with Hef.
I don’t regret any of the musical decisions I have made.
I regret not paying a bit more attention to Welsh lessons at school. My Welsh is pretty ropey, as back at my school, people didn’t take Welsh lessons seriously. My dad can speak it, so I wish he’d taught me some growing up.
I think it would be the biggest regret of mine – getting anything tattooed.
I do have a very deep sense of regret that there was a conflict and that people lost their lives, and you know, many were responsible for that – and a lot of them wear pinstripe suits in London today.
If you ask about regrets, I normally don’t regret. I enjoy everything, even if it’s bad or good.
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
Believe me – I’ve done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don’t regret the crazy stuff.
I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.
