#regret

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #regret




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.


John Major


#authentic #back #conservative #conventional #course

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.


Katherine Mansfield


#back #build #energy #good #life

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.


Mary McCarthy


#away #bad #bad one #difficult #flash

By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.


Elizabeth McGovern


#always #could #definition #each #enough

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.


George McGovern


#against #constantly #guy #i #no regrets

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.


Ian Mcewan


#conscience #correct #done #error #especially

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.


H. L. Mencken


#been #between #caught #difference #even

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.


Arthur Miller


#end #hope #maybe #regrets #right

But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed.


Moby


#myself #paralyzed #point #regret #same

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.


Zachary Taylor


#am #behind #die #done #duty