Quotes About Regret

If I make a mistake and finish 10th when we should have finished ninth, then I will be unhappy.

As human beings, we create belief systems that make us feel happy with the choices we make. You'd have a lot of unhappy people regretting everything if they didn't create the belief system in which they could explain all their choices and feel like they've done the right thing.

When I started playing, I saw a lot of people who were 45 and unhappy. I told myself I'd never be in a position where I had to play all the time. And I haven't been.

I did a TV job, 'Aint Misbehavin, purely for the money. I was disappointed with myself and, inevitably, incredibly unhappy.

The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.

I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime was not understanding that they were interesting, and I have been trying to make it up to them for being so indescribably blase, so genuinely uninterested and dismissive.

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.

It's a shame the Manchester United situation turned sour.

The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to me.

I was really into '24' at university, and it resulted in a lot of lost hours that could have been spent at the library. If you could have told me then I would be in it one day, I'd have hit the roof.

I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.

I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.

One of the many things I regret is that I hurt so many people by giving them nasty nicknames, and above all that I was unkind to the children of celebrities.

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

You have a chance to save lives! If you don't take it, you may regret it!

You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

God, why didn't you make Woman first - when you were fresh?

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

I do not like to see men walk away from women in late middle age.

There are so many young women who throw their talent away.

Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?