Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
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.
I have always had a blank spot where my regret is supposed to be.
It’s hard to regret stuff. You make decisions and you go with it.
I do regret, as I described in my book, the time that I shaved off half of my eyebrows thinking that I could draw them in better – and they would grow back anyway.
I don’t regret doing ‘The Living Daylights’. If I hadn’t done Bond, I wouldn’t have been in America doing my series, and I would have had a different life.
We recognise that, like us, other humans have insecurities and ambitions; we fall in love and have relationships that end in heartbreak; we worry about our children’s wellbeing; we say things we regret; we’re occasionally kept awake by fears or worries; and we try to impress people we look up to.
Do I regret how my life turned out? Of course not – not for a single second.
It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn’t keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don’t regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don’t want to go into!
It’s not like he called me up and asked me. They’ve never wanted to throw us into that world, and I think our decision probably shocked them. But I love my dad, and I think I’d regret it if I didn’t do this.
I went through whole scene kid phase from when I was, like, 12 years old to 15. Black eyeliner – I got gauges, which I definitely regret now – and I had the world’s worst haircut: it looked similar to a mullet with a rat’s tail, essentially. It was not great.
Selling Atari when I did – I think that’s my biggest regret. And I probably should have gotten back heavily into the games business in the late Eighties. But I was operating under this theory at the time that the way to have an interesting life was to reinvent yourself every five or six years.
I’m never uncomfortable with anything I do. I never feel like I regret anything. I love music, you know? All kinds of music.
I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.
In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.
I know so many people who have tremendous regret in their life.
Sometimes I wish I never found the Internet. Sometimes I regret getting a laptop and Wi-Fi for logging into the Internet because it is such a distraction. If you have any addictive personality, the Internet will magnify it.
There was no way the marriages could have survived. Nor do I regret that they didn’t.
I shall have less cause to regret the carrying my intended purpose into effect, foreseeing that you may immediately fill with advantage, the vacancy which will presently happen.
But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views.
I don’t regret setting bombs.
I don’t go around thinking about regret; regret doesn’t consume me as a person… I’m not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don’t think perhaps it’s even particularly Southern.
The only time I used to regret being a woman was when I had to use the toilets on sets when I would be shooting.
I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
All I know is, I was trying to win the football game. And the bottom line is, you have to do what you think is right. You have to go with your gut. And if you don’t do that, then I think you regret a lot of things later on.
When something goes wrong in your life, it doesn’t finish you, and you should become braver, knowing that you’ve got to go for things in life and don’t regret because you didn’t try to be as good as you might be.
As a son and as a father, there are still various things that I haven’t done as well as I should have – that’s my dilemma and regret.
I try to face things without regret, or make sure that I’m happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can.
I look at other people’s tats for probably the idea, or like, where to put it or something. But, at the end of the day, all my tats gotta mean something back to me. The moment you get something that don’t mean something to you, you’re gonna regret that tattoo.
I don’t regret anything, not even leaving Boca because it was the time to do so.
There’s a lot of regret that I have about not showing my proper gratitude to my grandmother.
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
In the emotion, you say things that you regret the next day.
I always regret leaving home if I don’t get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it’s the one thing I miss massively.
I don’t really regret much of my music life.
My biggest regret is that I didn’t teach my two children how to speak Spanish.
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I’d make all the same mistakes – only sooner.
I destroyed all my geek stuff because I didn’t want to be a geek, and I regret it to this day. Consumed in the geek bonfire of the vanities was a collection of autographs and letters from Peter Cushing, Spike Milligan and Frankie Howerd, the first Doctor Whos, actual astronauts, and many more.
I did a lot of things I regret.
I think the last thing you want in life is to live with regret.
There’s a lot of things I could’ve done better, and I regret not doing better. I do know I always gave it my best shot.
I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.
Sometimes people say things on the field that they might regret, but they should stay on the field.
I don’t regret any past. I am not there. I am not sorry not to make pictures, because I know one day I will do it. I intend to live 150 years.
I have always believed it is not enough just to wear the silver fern and I do not regret pushing myself to try to deliver my best possible performance.
There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That’s not what the American people want to hear.
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
Actually, the only thing that I can honestly say I really regret now is the blackface thing. I did not understand.
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.
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
I don’t have regret about things I’ve done that are successful or not successful or what people perceive or don’t know or whatever. I just know for me it had to be the right choice at the time. Sometimes that choice is just about getting a job.
My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets – Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.
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.
Formerly well-respected news organizations and experienced national journalists are making the sorts of mistakes that aren’t tolerated in journalism schools. When their mistakes are corrected at all, it’s with little seeming regret.
I don’t regret leaving Napoli.
I had a blast in the ’90s, perhaps too much fun, and maybe I should have worked a lot harder and partied a lot less, but I definitely don’t regret the 12 years I spent living out in L.A.
Given the opportunity, I might change a choice I made, but you can’t regret making what you thought was the best decision at the time.
I wouldn’t say I regret anything. I would say I just wish I did things better.
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
I don’t regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
Relationships have been a way of life and I don’t regret being in one ever.
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.
I regret all of my books.
The quest for love became all consuming to the point where I would give up shooting the cover of ‘Glamour’ magazine to go be with someone I was crazy about. I look back on that now and I would never let my own child do that, but I don’t regret it.
