Win The Life

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind. - Jean Rostand

 

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. - Lucille Ball

 

Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it. - Henry Louis Mencken

 

To regret deeply is to live afresh. - Henry David Thoreau

 

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. - Woody Allen

 

It seemed to me that 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

 

Make it a rule of life to never regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy: you can't build on it; it's good only for wallowing in. - Katherine Mansfield

 

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, 'There is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness. - Sarah Orne Jewett

 

I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly. - Sir Winston Churchill

 

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.-Aaron Burr

 

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.-Basil Rathbone

 

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

 

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.-William Shatner

 

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.-Samuel Beckett

 

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

 

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.-William Henry Hudson

 

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

 

Of course I do not regret the Bond days, I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent.-Roger Moore

 

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

 

Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret.-Ethel Merman

 

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?-George Sand

 

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.-Jean Cocteau

 

One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities.-Fred F. Fielding

 

People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.-Marcel Dionne

 

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.-Laurie Anderson

 

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.-Emile Zola

 

Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.-Cordell Hull

 

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.-Laurence Housman

 

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.-Sydney J. Harris

 

The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.-Kim Wilde

 

There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.-Frank Luntz

 

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.-Jude Law

 

Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.-Al D'Amato

 

Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one.-Theodor Herzl

 

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.-Marvin Olasky

 

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.-Bodhidharma

 

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.-Thomas Harrison

 

To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.-Adolf Eichmann

 

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.-Robert Brault

 

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.-Alphonse Karr

 

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.-Jared Harris

 

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

 

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.-Robert Falcon Scott

 

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.-John Negroponte

 

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.-Arthur Schopenhauer

 

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.-Fulton Oursler

 

We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.-David Gill

 

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.-Jim Rohn

 

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.-Lucy Maud Montgomery