Quotes About Regret

The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

You've always had me ... and my heart. My soul. Everything. I wish it hadn't taken this long for me to man up.

I would live the same life over if I had to live again, And the chances are I go where most men go.

I used to drink, I did, I had to quit. Man, I was an embarrassing drunk. I'd get pulled over by the cops, I'd be so drunk I'd be out dancing to their lights thinking I'd made it to another club.

It's your one last chance," said Harry, "it's all you've got left. . . .I've seen what you'll be otherwise. . . . Be a man . . . try . . . Try for some remorse. . . .

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."

Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.

I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.

I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found."

In the center of that open space, a bony woman in a threadbare garment was hunched over a dead plant. Sword of Divine Fire's reaction was succinct: Fuck! The woman cringed as if he'd hit her with a bullwhip. Then: What has happened to our potato?

Dr. Harris was now wishing that the late Doc Dubois had never opened his big fat mouth.

In any crisis, survivors will always berate themselves that they could have done more," Léna said, almost to herself. She blinked and then her sharp focus returned to Ocyrhoe. "I should get you out of Rome," she said, almost as if to herself.

Even though the dying was still going on, they had to force themselves to think about it like the Irish potato famine, or like what had happened to the peoples of the New World when Columbus had arrived and infected them with a slew of deadly diseases. Regret, even horror were appropriate. But detachment was necessary.

Regret, even horror were appropriate. But detachment was necessary.

It is surprisingly easy—but then, really stupid decisions are always the easiest.

Your horse whickers because he likes your manner," Feronantus said. "He is coming to trust you. Horses are naive that way. Of all the savagery of war, I regret the disappointment and agony of the horses most of all.

what he's really thinking is: why did I waste all those years in academia when I could have been doing great shit like this?

And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.

They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.