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Quotes About Regret

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
~ Horace
I left family court for the vagaries of TV and said to myself, 'Judy, what the hell are you thinking?' It seems like only yesterday.
~ Judy Sheindlin
Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
~ Ralph W. Sockman
The best time is always yesterday.
~ Tatyana Tolstaya
I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it.
~ Lee Trevino
I can't live off of yesterday - that's in the past.
~ Juice Newton
You can't edit yesterday's paper.
~ Pete Hamill
If you come up with something that's useless and promote it the right way, everybody will have to have it yesterday, even though they get up the next morning and wonder why they bought it.
~ Ken Hakuta
You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got.
~ David Miliband
I'm trying to forget I ever saw 'Episode I,' but Yoda is forever.
~ Kasie Hunt
My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the 'New York Times' Building.
~ Ann Coulter
To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.
~ Eliot Spitzer
Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was 26. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're 34.
~ Nora Ephron
You're only young once and you can't turn back the hands of time.
~ Heart Evangelista
To all my young fans out there, I ask that you no longer consider me a role model. See me as an individual who had the opportunity to be a role model but blew it. Blew it with irresponsible, irrational, immature decisions.
~ Tommy Morrison
My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. When an offer was given to me to join up, I was too old, and I knew it.
~ Buck Leonard
I am not only the person who wrote and sold a novel while raising a houseful of biological and foster children; I am also the person who wrote a horrific young adult novel that never sold and gave up on a foster child I couldn't handle - an experience that still haunts me.
~ Vanessa Diffenbaugh
As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case.
~ Allen Boyd
Men, who certainly possess not only the savvy but also the know-how to be funny, for some reason, are just not. I began to notice this at a pretty young age, and unfortunately, a lifetime of living - and not a little bit of regret - hasn't done much to convince me otherwise.
~ Ellie Kemper
I wish I'd lived in New York in my early twenties. Or learned to speak more languages at a young age. I didn't do either.
~ Carrie Brownstein
My greatest regret would be that I took my success for granted, because it was given to me at such a young age.
~ Lorenzo Lamas
I never counted how many tattoos I have, but I started getting them at a really young age, so most of my big ones are cover-ups.
~ Bria Vinaite
I didn't have a school life like everyone else because I started working at a young age. That's what I regret.
~ Shin Min-a