#regret

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

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#any #author #cheap #closet #company

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#anticipation #calamity #future #great #great source

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. ↗

— David Grayson

#back #did #i #looking #looking back

I really didn't feed off the whole Olympic experience at all, and I regret that from an athletic perspective, and also from a personal experience. I feel like I missed out, so I'm not going to do that this time. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#athletic #experience #feed #feel #going

I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it. ↗

— Kohta Hirano

#god-s-will #personification #philosophy #regret #religion

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in. ↗

— Jared Harris

#done #few #i #involved #movies

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#regret #tempered #things #time