#regret

When I went into the last lap I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the first sector for the last time. Simply fantastic this circuit, and if you get 53 laps more, you appreciate it even more. It's made by God's hands. ↗

— Sebastian Vettel

#appreciate #bit #circuit #enjoying #even

My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#career #choosing #day #deep #died

Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#china #duration #greatly #japan #long

I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#appearing #before #bring #country #good

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#any #author #cheap #closet #company

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

#give #gladly #hate #i #just

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#anticipation #calamity #future #great #great source

It's unfair." As a rule, life is unfair," I said. Yeah, but I think I did say some awful things." To Dick?" Yeah." I pulled the car over to the shoulder of the road and turned off the ignition. "That's just stupid, that kind of thinking," I said, nailing her with my eyes. "Instead of regretting what you did, you could have treated him decently from the beginning. You could've tried to be fair. But you didn't. You don't even have the right to be sorry. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#regret #unfairness #death

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#except #hurt #i #in the past #might

I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions. ↗

— Anita Hill

#ask #continued #employer #explaining #few