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Quotes About Regrettable

I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.
~ Bob Newhart
I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing.
~ Bob Newhart
It just came out, a new number one on the list of the dumbest things he'd ever said.
~ James Dashner
And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.
~ Agatha Christie
It is truly regrettable that a person will treat a man who is valuable to him well, and a man who is worthless to him poorly.
~ Hojo Shigetoki
Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.
~ Richard Dawkins
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them
~ Francis Parker Yockey
Like most bad ideas, it started with alcohol.
~ Cy Wyss, Polygraph
Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.
~ Richard Dawkins
The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
~ Richard Dawkins
The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.
~ Jules Verne
It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
~ Lal Bahadur Shastri
THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all
~ Richard Dawkins
Music, together with certain sorts of majestic landscape, had a well-known tendency to induce such faux-sublime moments: artificial intimations of transcendent truths, grandiose hunches about the nature of the universe. It was all nonsense. Her tears had been no different from the ones people cried at sentimental television commercials. They represented nothing but a momentary and regrettable submission to kitsch.
~ Zoë Heller
This is all very regrettable, though it isn't really, and I wish to assure you that I, in no way, derive any personal satisfaction from any of this, even though I so obviously do. If you feel the need to vent any more of your frustration, please feel free to do so, as I intend to build a collage of this moment and I'd like some more amusing anecdotes to go along with it.
~ Derek Landy
This is all very regrettable, though it isn't really, and I wish to assure you that I, in no way, derive any personal satisfaction from any of this, even though I so obviously do. If you feel the need to vent any more of your frustation, please feel free to do so, as I intend to build a collage of this moment and I'd like some more amusing anecdotes to go along with it. - China
~ Derek Landy
what a bloody silly way to die…
~ Jeff Vandermeer
A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
ella ha debido casarse con este patán creyendo que no hay otros que valgan más que él. Es lamentable. Y yo debo procurar que, por culpa mía, no vaya a arrepentirse de su elección.»
~ Emily Bronte
We attacked selected military targets of the P.L.O. Around, civilians were hurt, I don't want to deny it. Very regrettable, very regrettable. We regret it deeply.
~ Menachem Begin
So whether you're participating in an online conversation or reading a book by yourself, your experience is a readerly one and a responsive one. The most significant difference is that reading a book is dialogically asymmetrical: you learn about the book, about its characters and perhaps its author, but none of them learns anything about you. I'm not convinced that this is necessarily regrettable: many of us should probably spend more time just listening, rather than insisting on being heard.
~ Alan Jacobs
Piter: Ah-ah, Baron! Is it not regrettable you were unable to devise this delicious scheme by yourself? Baron: Someday I will have you strangled, Piter. Piter: Of a certainty, Baron. Enfin! But a kind act is never lost, eh? Baron: Have you been chewing verite or semuta, Piter?
~ Frank Herbert
The solitude of women's minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it's a waste to be separated from each other without procedures, without tradition.
~ Elena Ferrante
The solitude of women's minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it's a waste to be separated from each other, without procedures, without tradition.
~ Elena Ferrante