Quotes About Regret

Listen, lady, he said in a high voice, if I had of been there I would of known and I wouldn't be like I am now. His voice seemed about to crack and the grandmother's head cleared for an instant. She saw the man's face twisted close to her own as if he were going to cry and she murmured, Why you're one of my babies. You're one of my own children! She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest.

Lady," The Misfit said, looking beyond her far into the woods, "there never was a body that give the undertaker a tip.

She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

No," he said. Then he drew breath and said, "You got a nice place here. It's a nice part of the country. I'm sorry if I've give you a lot of trouble getting sick. It was my fault trying to be friendly with that nigger." And I'm a damned liar besides, he said to himself to kill the outrageous taste such a statement made in his mouth.

He couldn't understand at all why he had let himself risk his skin for a dead shriveled-up part-nigger dwarf that had never done anything but get himself embalmed and then lain stinking in a museum the rest of his life.

I call myself The Misfit, he said, because I can't make what all I done wrong fit what all I gone through in punishment. Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard To Find

No. No. It couldn't be any baby. She was not going to have something waiting in her to make her deader, she was not.

His heart constricted with a repulsion for himself so clear and intense that he gasped for breath. He had stuffed his own emptiness with good works like a glutton.

She would have been a good woman," the Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life

Quelques détails s'en allèrent, mais le regret lui resta.

Le meilleurde la vie se passe à dire: Il est trop tôt, puis Il est trop tard. The better part of life is spent saying: It's too early, and then It's too late.

I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

I've had to make friends with an awful lot of bad fashion choices.

The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast; I can't remember what I said or what happened.

I made the fatal mistake of trying to cut my own hair. It makes me look like I have a good face for radio.

I knew what my fatal error was: After running perilously fast in lane five, I slowed down at 250 meters. I could not cover the lost ground after that - and that cost me the race. After the death of my parents, that is my worst memory. I kept crying for days.

People were laughing at us and we knew it was our fault. The scandal caused us a lot of pain but I guess it made us face reality.

I'll look back on my career as a whole and at parts of it and say I should have enjoyed that more. I suppose that's my own fault.

There will always be something down there that says, 'All right, you won the Bellator title but you never won the UFC title.' I've thought about that. I've never had the opportunity, and yes, a lot of it is my fault... but I never got that opportunity.

'Atonement' is one of my all-time favourite movies.

My two great fears are either not working or working on something that means you can't do something else you really want.

Maybe if I had made the move in my early 20s it would have been different. But I did not feel good at 145.

I feel like I fell short in Rio.

There are few things I've never done in my life.