#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

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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

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I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever. ↗

— Van Morrison

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There's not a second I regret having a child on my own. ↗

— Bridget Moynahan

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I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all. ↗

— Michel Patini

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For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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I have no regrets because I did everything by the book. ↗

— Alexis Arguello

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When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves. ↗

— Eleanora Duse

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I regret all of my books. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#i #regret

Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy. ↗

— Neil Jordan

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