To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.
Theodore Dalrymple
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My Only Regret is Regret
CHUCK DIGUIDA To live without regrets is impossible. To regret not trying is the worst regret of all.
GARY RUDZ Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence
WILL HENRY الندم هو صوت الفطرة لحظة الخطأ
مصطفى محمود We're not going to be around then, and Pluto's still unexplored. This is our opportunity. If we miss...
HAL WEAVER It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG To regret deeply is to live afresh.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Guilt is regret for what we’ve done.
Regret is guilt for what we didn’t do.
MARK AMEND True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN Isn't it better to regret things you've done, than regret things you've never even tried?
INIO ASANO Regret is tiring.
MITTA XININDLU When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction...
CRISS JAMI Never do anything you'll regret. Never regret anything you do.
LEA MISHELL Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
JONATHAN LARSON All this is what it means to regret.
MATTHEW J. HEFTI I rarely regret my action but I often regret my inaction.
AVINA CELESTE The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that s...
BEVERLY CLEARY I don't regret my past but I regret not doing enough to achieve my goals today. Today is the only op...
OSCAR BIMPONG A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re ...
CARROLL BRYANT My biggest regret is that I've assisted the media in making me into a cartoon character. I don...
MEGAN FOX Happiness is pleasure without regret
LEO TOLSTOY Recovery is hard. Regret is harder.
BRITTANY BURGUNDER No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I alw...
SAMUEL BECKETT They have regret they got caught. Regret is an intellectual response, remorse is an effect emotional...
BRUCE PERRY There is nothing to regret with a job well done.
JOE GARCIA I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
LUCILLE BALL You don’t have to regret the things you've done, but regret
the things you didn’t do when you ha...
GUNDO MULAUDZI Regret is just perfectionism plus time.
B.J. NOVAK To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit re...
DAVID WHYTE I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my...
BRITTANY RENéE People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
BOB DYLAN People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I lov...
FULTON OURSLER For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!".
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a w...
MARCEL PROUST Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these... it might have been.
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.
MIDORI ITO It's the things I might have said that fester.
CLEMENCE DANE Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that...
SYDNEY SMITH One's real life is often the life that one does not lead
OSCAR WILDE Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do t...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS I don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I do...
BORIS PASTERNAK Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of reg...
SARAH DESSEN We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, al...
LIBBA BRAY Never regret. If it is good,it’s wonderful.If it’s bad, it is experience.Don’t look back in re...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Regret is a feeling of repentance or disappointment over an occurrence that one has done or failed t...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is with regret that the board has decided to close Celtica at the end of March 2006. Unless exter...
MICHAEL JONES A hard lesson is never learned without regret.
ANGEL ORTIZ There are those who feel regret, shrug stoically and say, 'well, maybe I shouldn't have - it's my fa...
ALAN RODGER It really hit me at the end of the game. We don't have anything to regret tonight. It was real speci...
AHMAD SMITH The only things you regret are the things you don't do.
MICHAEL CURTIZ I told them that if I am with you, I'll always regret what I've done and I don't ever want to regret...
PAUL RUSESABAGINA I regret anything that I may have written or said that could have triggered or helped to create an a...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret.
ANDREW HEYWARD I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could ...
THOMAS BOWDLER You regret more the things left undone than the things you have done.
MITCHELL JORGENSEN I was lied to then and I regret it.
ANTHONY WEINER When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
ELEANORA DUSE It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties...
JONATHAN CARROLL We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed,
BERNARD EBBERS I regret that despite my apology to (Castillo) and my efforts to restore a working relationship, he ...
PAUL SIMON You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn’t. And s...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Never regret, if something has been gone wrong.Every thing happens for a reason.Mistake or wrong don...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA As we have said throughout the auction process, we continue to be interested in Daewoo Motor. We reg...
JOHN MUELLER I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.
RORY COCHRANE I have no regrets. (I)f you regret things, (then) you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer ...
KATE WINSLET I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.
JAMES HETFIELD We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to ...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Don’t regret. Keep your dreams alive. Believe things happen for a reason. To achieve anything requ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Oh, Lord, it is not the sins I have committed that I regret, but those which I have had no opportuni...
GHALIB Do you still believe that if you truly want something enough it can happen?" I ask. I think of all t...
CARRIE RYAN I did it for 15 years and I don't regret anything. I never took it for granted. They'll probably be ...
BERNIE WILLIAMS I give it my all. I don't want to regret not playing hard. I leave it all out on the field.
DREW DELIS I have said before how much I regret making this exception to our antidiscrimination policy. I belie...
ELENA KAGAN I don't regret not competing as a freshman be-cause (focusing on club) is what got me my scholarship...
EMILIE RYMER We regret any inconvenience this may have caused some of our customers.
DARCEL KIMBLE Not everyone has a gun safe, and you don't want to have that one accident that you regret for the re...
CLINT NORRED The only regret I have is missing the second half of last season. I learned from it and made sure I ...
DWAINE LENTES Both sides expressed regret for any miscommunication that occurred. Both parties want to move forwar...
JAY PAUL DERATANY We hold the kingdom and Prince Saud in great esteem and we regret such comments as these,
HOSHIYAR ZEBARI This is a violation of the sanctions regime, something that we deeply regret and are quite disappoin...
JAMES CUNNINGHAM We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the convers...
NEIL GAIMAN My biggest regret is that our share of the enterprise computer market is still very small, so we've ...
KAREN GUO I really don't regret it at all,
KASEY KAHNE If these reports are true we would regret this step.
JENS PLOETNER I'll always regret that I left when I left.
JEFFREY SKILLING For this I am truly sorry and regret all that has happened.
MICHAEL CZUGAJ We are absolutely confident that the product is safe. However, we regret that there was a misinterpr...
PHILIP PEERLESS I feel a little regret.
WANG MANLI And it was pointless...to think how those years could have been put to better use, for he could hard...
CHARLES FRAZIER And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.
He wished th...
MELINA MARCHETTA That just means the door is shut. He chose to plead guilty and he may regret making that decision, b...
JOSHUA DRESSLER I may regret the way we ended, but I will never regret what we had.
DRAKE No more sad than to regret @ Death.
RICARDO ALONSO We have to conclude, with regret, that it is Mr Saito.
AKIRA CHIBA Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.
H. L. MENCKEN Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Doing what is right to GOD gives you peace not regret
RUDZANI RALPH Clinton/Reno: This is a day you will live to regret.
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT Clown and guru are a single identity: the satiric and sublime side of the same higher vision of lif...
THEODORE ROZAK The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Remorse is the pain of sin.
THEODORE PARKER Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
THEODORE PARKER The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of he...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT [America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we wer...
THEODORE PARKER My hat is in the ring.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the
well-being of society, but only if they k...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virt...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square dea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure,...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the ch...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT