Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Tobin Anderson

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.

Maya Angelou

I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.

Matt Kenseth

I'm far from perfect. There's a lot of times you'll say something that you regret or do something that you regret and wish you wouldn't have said it or done it.

Maya Angelou

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

Maya Angelou

Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you the kind of protection that bodyguards can’t give you. So try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity. Take up the battle. Take it up. It’s yours. This is your life. This is your world.

Marilynne Robinson

People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do, even if you're just quietly going about a life of your own choosing. They will make you doubt yourself, which, depending on cases, can be a severe distraction and a waste of time. This is a thing I wish I had understood much earlier than I did.

Mary Ellen Chase

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important.

Laini Taylor

As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret...

Bobby Vinton

I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.

Donovan McNabb

Know why I smile so much out there? It's because I'm having so much fun.

Dontrelle Willis

I'm just a kid having fun.

Donovan Bailey

I do a lot of media work, I've been investing and I'm involved with real estate. It's totally different from what I had been doing but I find it challenging and fun. To be honest, I really don't miss the track. I pretty well accomplished what I set out to do and it was time to move on.

Donnie Yen

I love working with older actors because number one, I can learn so much from them because they have so much experience. And it's fun to hear their stories from their era, some of the jokes.

Don Henley

I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here, when good was good and evil was evil, before things got fuzzy.

Dweezil Zappa

I'm game for anything fun.

Dwayne Johnson

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Liam Payne

I try to be cool, but I'm not very good at it.

Libba Bray

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

Libba Bray

If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.

Libba Bray

And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

Lester Bowie

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

Frederick W. Smith

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

There is just this moment. We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.

Johnny Weir

Figure skating is a bit dated - it's like that tweed jacket you pull out of the back of your closet from time to time, and I'm going to try to Chanel it up a little bit.