#regret

Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in 'E.T.' My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can't go anywhere. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#been #being #completely #course #crazy

My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had. ↗

— Perry Como

#i #kids #life #much #now

My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance. ↗

— Denis Leary

#chance #denver #hit #i #john

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors? ↗

— Émile Zola

#pessimism #regrets #zola #dreams

Mamma says if we stay so focused on our past failings, we won't be able to move beyond them and learn what we need to know. ↗

— Annette Bridges

#regrets #self-condemnation #self-esteem #life

The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch. ↗

— Scott Spencer

#mourn #regret #love

For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#love #regret #value #love

I've never regretted it. Questioned it? Sure. But never regretted." "Is there a difference?" I ask. "Absolutely. Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. I questioned a lot about my relationship with your father. People make spontaneous decisions based off of their hearts all the time. There's so much more to relationships than just love. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#regret #change

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me! ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#longing #regret #self #dreams

Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror of inflicting that nightmarish, never forgotten damage on a fellow human being. Perhaps the only more terrifying prospect is that such a fate should befall us or our loved ones. This is why we, a representative cross-section of America's population, keep deadly weapons for personal defense. ↗

— Massad Ayoob

#lethal-force #regret #responsibility #death