Regret Quotes - Page 23

• Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Winning, Hands, Mad

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• I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

  Kevin Costner

  Perfect, Decision, Trying

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• You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

  Sheryl Crow

  Mistake, Eye, People

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• I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.

  Puff Daddy

  Believe, Black History, Puff

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2008.

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• 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.

  Evan Davis

  Should Have, Perfection, Three

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• I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Offering, Actors, Surprise

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• Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.

  Cameron Diaz

  Opportunity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, I Miss You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.72, Bantam Classics

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• The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

  Nora Ephron

  Believe, Being Single, Being Alone

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Brother, Loss, Atmosphere

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• I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

  Sarah Ferguson

  Mistake, Thinking, Past

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• I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.

  Will Ferrell

  Basketball, Soccer, School

  "Will Ferrell Q&A". Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. February 12, 2008.

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• 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.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Personality, Wish, Logging

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• The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

  Carly Fiorina

  Mistake, Proud, Truth Is

  Carly Fiorina (2015). “Rising to the Challenge: My Leadership Journey”, p.20, Penguin

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• My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets: Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

  Jennie Garth

  Body, Fads, Fad Diets

  "Jennie Garth: How I Made a Fresh Start". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.health.com. January 3, 2013.

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• 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.

  J. Paul Getty

  Marriage, Hate, Giving

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• Oh, I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly. But that's just part of the deal. I'm not really sure what's going to come out of my mouth.

  Kathy Griffin

  Mouths, I Regret, Deals

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• So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.

  Kathy Griffin

  Helping, I Regret

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• In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Fields

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• Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Mind, Like You

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• I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.

  Zaha Hadid

  Two, Middle East, Done

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• Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, Past, People

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• I try not to spend too much time with regret, although I wish I'd had more hang time with my dad.

  Woody Harrelson

  Dad, Wish, Trying

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• My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.

  Robert Harris

  Able, Jokes

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• The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

  William Hazlitt

  Doors, Favors, Quitting

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1872, Delphi Classics

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