Quotes About Regret

When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.

I think it's nice to have children. I didn't have many, and while I don't sit around regretting it, I maybe would have liked a couple more. But it wasn't meant to be, and I didn't want it badly enough.

Looking back at the 'Wonder Years,' I see things I did well, and I see things I did very, very badly.

All the nice girls in my life I have treated badly.

Ross Perot. I could have had a ball with him.

We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.

I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance.

I earnestly feel terrible for any mistakes at the bank.

I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.

I didn't like the bar business.

It's true, in the past there was interest from Barcelona, but I'd have been a ball boy there.

I think, when I was younger, I might have scored on the wrong basket. That wasn't too smart.

There were definitely times when I regretted ever being Batman.

If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man.

The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy.

When I am older, I don't want to look at my films and not be happy about my choices.

I try to never look back at how I dressed in the first few seasons of 'Laguna Beach' because it was pretty bad... head-to-toe bad.

There's some bells you can't unring.

But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.

My ignorance was inexcusable, and it made me ashamed.

weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.

The plain truth is that I knew better but went to Everest anyway. And in doing so I was a party to the death of good people, which is something that is apt to remain on my conscience for a very long time.

I looked down. Descent was totally unappetizing.… Too much labor, too many sleepless nights, and too many dreams had been invested to bring us this far. We couldn't come back for another try next weekend. To go down now, even if we could have, would be descending to a future marked by one huge question: what might have been? Thomas F. Hornbein     Everest: The West Ridge A

I came to understand that I had baffled and infuriated my father at least as much as he had baffled and infuriated me. I saw that I had been selfish and unbending and a giant pain in the ass. He'd built a bridge of privilege for me, a hand-paved trestle to the good life, and I repaid him by chopping it down and crapping on the wreckage.