#regret

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#away #bad #bad one #difficult #flash

I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#also #any #believe #better #fathers

I have no regrets. ↗

— Trevor McDonald

#no regrets #regrets

By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#always #could #definition #each #enough

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that. ↗

— George McGovern

#against #constantly #guy #i #no regrets

When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#end #gain #know #later #overcome

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#conscience #correct #done #error #especially

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#arbitrary #childhood #cruelly #false #into

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#been #between #caught #difference #even

Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#four #i #marriages #only #regret