Regrets Quotes - page 8

Nobody ever comes back from a "missing" ship to tell how hard was the death of the craft, and how sudden and overwhelming the last anguish of her men. Nobody can say with what thoughts, with what regrets, with what words on their lips they died. But there is something fine in the sudden passing away of these hearts from the extremity of struggle and stress and tremendous uproar-from the vast, unrestful rage of the surface to the profound peace of the depths, sleeping untroubled since the beginning of ages. (Joseph Conrad)
One naturally regrets not being an expert or one of those insiders who thoroughly understand. It's hell to be an amateur. A little reflection calms your sorrow, however. The experts in their own little speedboat, the rest of us floating with the rest of mankind in a great barge - that is the picture. View quote
Saul Bellow
Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro' the spirit's gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot. View quote
John Major
I have no regrets in my life. If not for the mistakes that I made I would not be the man I am today. View quote
Marco Pierre White
I've paid my price, a high price, I watched my mother die. I look at everything I've been given now as a form of compensation. A person who has regrets is a person who casts anchors. View quote
Marco Pierre White
I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life! View quote
Meg Cabot
Do not become someone who regrets leaving a job or resigning from a company when with hindsight you realize you should have stayed longer and stuck it out. View quote
Nigel Cumberland
I want to live in such a way that, if it is only twenty-nine more days or twenty-nine more weeks, or if it is twenty-nine more years or more, I want to faithful with each one of those-that I could go and meet the Lord without regrets, without unfinished business. View quote
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
I have no regrets. I've got my health. View quote
Naomi Campbell
Don't let regrets about the past or worries about the future rob you of your enjoyment of the present. (Nicky Gumbel)
The cross is bigger than your mistakes, bigger than your regrets, bigger than the secrets you hold. The cross stands above it all. View quote
Nicky Gumbel
Be thankful for every day. Learn from mistakes. Don't dwell on regrets. Forgive with love. Gain strength from every struggle. View quote
Nicky Gumbel
I do not think I am successful just because I have money. I'm successful because I love who I am and I have no regrets, and I'm successful because I have a great heart and I have compassion and I care and I would be happy with or without money. View quote
Suze Orman
We're all haunted in one way or another, are we not? If not by spirits, then by our own demons and regrets. View quote
Teresa Medeiros
What the hell was it I wanted to buy, I wonder, that was worth-Well no matter. It's a late day for regrets. View quote
Eugene O'Neill
A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets. View quote
Gary Keller
In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field. View quote
Jake Gyllenhaal
Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again. View quote
Jake Gyllenhaal
I've had a very good life and a very good career. I have no regrets. View quote
Gene Wilder
Regrets and apologies are all very well, but there's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them. They're like brands. (John Boyne)
What every girl dreams of when she's dumped is - that the guy will someday feel regrest and come back and tell her all about it. And the beauty of it is you have no regrets whatsoever. View quote
Emily Giffin
He found he was a man who repented almost everything, regrets crowding in around him like moths to a light. This was actually the main difference between twenty-one and fifty-one, he decided, the sheer volume of regret. View quote
Emily St. John Mandel
I did have regrets these past six months,” he told me quietly. "I found it a curse as much as a blessing, all that time to think. About the things I could have said, that I should have told you . . . View quote
Karen Chance
there are risks you'll take for yourself because you know that if your plan goes wrong, it'll be too late for regrets. but if you risk the lives of others and fail, you'll have a lifetime to regret it. View quote
Kelley Armstrong