Famous Quotes & Sayings

Taylor Swift

Don't ever regret being honest. Period.

Soren Kierkegaard

Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.

Soren Kierkegaard

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

Stephen Tobolowsky

Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret.

Tab Hunter

I did Polyester, and I dont regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.

Sylvia Plath

The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past.

Ron Wyden

The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.

Rumi

Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.

Rumi

No one looks back and regrets leaving this world. What's regretted is how real we thought it was.

Ernest Hemingway

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

George Washington

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

Jim Carrey

I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything.

Jennifer Young

Pause and remember - Stop procrastinating! Wishing is wonderful but action is what it takes to make it happen.

Jeff Bridges

I wish I were more disciplined.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

George Bernard Shaw

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

George Bernard Shaw

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Franz Kafka

I never wish to be easily defined.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

Mary Lou Retton

I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

Jacques Lacan

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

Laura Esquivel

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

Johnny Evers

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

John Yoo

It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.

John Churton Collins

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

Jim Calhoun

You can?t predict this thing ... two, three, four all gone. How do you predict these things? The whole idea that No. 1 gets the easy route ... there are no easy routes. Those teams at 16 are really good, and they have incredible desire to win. By the time you get to 8-9, you?re facing really good teams.

Alison Nordstrom

These are instructions in desire. It's a staged, idealized vision of a perfectly happy household.