- Looking Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regret Quotes
Some regrets linger, others never take root.
One athlete names a single lasting regret from an entire professional career — never winning a championship — while another says plainly that choosing a life in business is not something they regret. See Mistake quotes for related reflections.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The consequences of ignoring the Lord and His prophets are certain and often accompanied by great sorrow and regret.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing I regret most about my life are those inane photos of me with icons. They used to come down here and dress me up, and I just tolerated it. It's my fault. But I shouldn't have done it. They literally brought down costumes, candles, and icons! It was unbelievable stupidity.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a good thing - and it was a wonderful thing, I don't regret it a bit. But I was sort of discombobulated by it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020