I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.
I don’t regret leaving Bayern Munich. I am convinced it was the correct step for me.
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.
People sometimes ask me what my biggest regret is in football and it’s not being able to have that ‘Steven Gerrard’ moment where he’s playing for the team that he loves in terms of where he’s from.
Sometimes I sit down and I think ‘Do I regret this? Do I regret that?’ And I feel like everything makes this snowball effect, you know? If you regret something, it’s good because it just means that it’s something that’s affected you enough for you to stop and think… There’s a reason that everything happens.
I’ve got my feet on the ground because I’ve got a lovely family waiting for me when I get home, even though they’re not my flesh and blood. I haven’t got children. That’s my only regret, I suppose.
My biggest regret is that I wasn’t able to help give our fans a championship.
I try to be really conscious. I don’t want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around.
Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don’t regret.
Not getting picked for the World Cup is my biggest regret, but it was out of my hands. Id love to have known if I was good enough.
Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.
I tried hard to create my own records when a lot of them belonged to Steve Davis, so to see someone else beat yours, you’d be lying if you said there wasn’t a twinge of regret there.
I think the only regret I have is not to have opened my eyes sooner to aspects of life like the relationship of man with nature and animals.
I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.
Often, the roles I’m offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.
I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.
Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don’t regret any decisions I have made.
You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.
If you compromise and hire someone mediocre, you will always regret it.
I rarely come away from presenting the ‘Today’ programme without some sense of regret. There is always some question that I should have asked, or some point that I should have made. This is annoying but not surprising. Perfection is hard to achieve in a three-hour live programme.
We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
I’ve said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world’s greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
My part had three lines. I said, ‘You look wonderful, sir,’ three times. All my friends said, ‘Do not take that role – and do not understudy. You’ll regret it the rest of your life.’ I did both of those things, and I’ve never regretted it once.
I do not have regrets, I do not regret joining Manchester City.
There is nothing I’ve been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened – personally and professionally – I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.
I went through college while working a full-time manual-labor job, and I don’t regret a minute of it; it was a great learning experience.
I do not regret the end of my first marriage.
I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don’t regret them at all, because I’ve learnt from them.
Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
There is nothing to regret with a job well done.
If starting games in a club like Manchester City and winning two titles isn’t enough, too bad. I won’t regret anything.
I have no regret about making ‘Heroine’; rather, I am happy I made it. I never shun my films; I stick to it.
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.
You only get so much time to do something that you enjoy or love to do. If you can continue doing it, you might as well, because I don’t want to live in regret. I don’t want to be the person sitting behind a desk, wondering, ‘Did I do it right, did I finish it off, did I really give it my all?’
I have no regrets. I can’t think of a regret.
I don’t regret anything.
I just love that whole Brill Building era. I will always regret not being there. That’s where I belong.
I never regret what I do. I’m very proud of every work I have done.
So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can’t help it.
My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn’t in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.
My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.
My biggest regret is that my mother didn’t see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.
I don’t regret being topless in certain things, but there were some things in ‘EastEnders’ where there was no reason for me to be topless.
I wore a ‘Black Metal’ Venom T-shirt once, in January 1993, to promote black metal, and I regret having done that ever since.
I don’t regret anything about my younger career, mainly because we were children and didn’t have too much power, but also because it gave us the privilege to be where we are now.
I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism.
I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I’m quite proud that I’ve had fun with fashion and don’t always look perfect. The only regret I have is when I look at something I wore when I was very young and it obviously looks like it belonged to someone else.
I think it’s essential to engage with your followers. I always used to email bloggers, and no one ever replied, so I try to reply to every comment and question, and although sometimes I regret it when I’m sat on Instagram til 3 A.M., it’s worth it.
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
When we grow old, there can only be one regret – not to have given enough of ourselves.
I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.
The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.
I was a waitress for nine years, which I don’t regret at all. It taught me about discipline. I was always writing; it took a long time to make a career of it.
In 1940 my mum took a job as under-matron at her old school, which had been evacuated from Eastbourne to Windermere; I got a bursary and spent eight years as a boarder. It was a smashing education; I regret being at a single-sex school, but I had a brother, so knew what guys were.
Your heart and your instincts are far more reliable than your brain. When you follow your heart, you can be sure you won’t regret it later. Even if you calculate your every move, it’s not like life ever goes according to plan.
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can’t build on it it’s only good for wallowing in.
My role in Palin is something that there’s not a day that has gone by that I don’t have regret about.
Regret doesn’t budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can’t amend a moment, can’t even stir a pebble.
I’ve done a lot of things that I regret.
My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.
The only regret I can have is that Inter sold a player that is now completely recovered. I said many times that I wouldn’t have left Inter without showing who I was. But then they sold me.
