Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darin Strauss

Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.

Dave Eggers

She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.

David Gemmell

All things are possible, ... Except the passing of regret.

David Berkowitz

Society has to take the glory out of guns. Young people have no business carrying a gun. I would love to speak bluntly to those gangbanging teens and wanna-bes and tell them prison is nothing like what you think. If you’re packing a gun, you’re making a big mistake, and you’ll regret it.

David Blunkett

I regret the time and resources needed to undertake this but... it is right to lay this accusation to rest.

David Jeremiah

First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him.

David Beckham

I know that I will always regret it later in life if I had turned down the chance to play at another great club like Real Madrid.

David Mamet

Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.

Darren Aronofsky

I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.

Daisaku Ikeda

If you summon your courage to challenge something, you’ll never be left with regret. How sad it is to spend your life wishing, “If only I’d had a little more courage.” Whatever the outcome may be, the important thing is to step forward on the path that you believe is right.

Billy Graham

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

Billy Graham

I have never known anyone to accept Christ's redemption and later regret it.

Claude Monet

the more I live, the more I regret how little i know

Danny Wallace

Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes.

Danielle Steel

You don’t know how lucky you are, my dear. Don’t waste it with regrets of the places and people you have lost. You have a lifetime to fill, so many good times and good years and great people ahead of you. You must rush to meet it.

Cliff Richard

If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.

E. W. Howe

It is a matter of regret that many low, mean suspicions turn out to be well founded.

E. W. Howe

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Dwight Yoakam

I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.

Courtney Love

I have a lot of regrets, of course I do. I should have taken that part; I should have maybe married that one, I don't know, but I didn't. So I am what I am and I'm pretty confident that I can break in. I think what I have to offer on film and on television is honest.

The only thing I regret is not returning earlier.

Paul Simon

I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush.