- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vietnam ended a failure: repeatedly, to me, Kissinger described it as his greatest, and most persistent regret. But Congress was more to blame than Kissinger.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that characteristically human guilt and regret about what might have been in the past. But that may be the cost for our ability to hope and plan for what might be in the future.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The characters are not allowed to change if you write a sitcom; they're not allowed to learn anything. There's all these sorts of rules, and you go, 'I just want to be able to write one character and then leave that behind.' Also, as a performer, and I may regret saying this, but it would be my own personal hell to be trapped in the sitcom.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't regret leaving 'Homeland,' because I wanted to work with the Bhatts. The dates were clashing, and I had to make a choice.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never regret my decisions.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I try to do - and I always regret when I'm not doing it - is I try to read as much as possible as I'm consuming news.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
While my seemingly compulsive school-hopping has raised some eyebrows among my peers and caused my parents understandable consternation, I do not regret it.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have done 'Sports Illustrated,' but I don't regret it because it portrayed me in a positive way - as an athlete.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know there's an impression that I'm someone who seeks to have violent confrontations with people. I don't. Do I regret screaming at some guy who practically clipped my kid in the head with the lens of a camera? Yeah, I probably do, because it's only caused me problems.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020