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Image of Vernon Howard
The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
- Vernon Howard
Collection: Regret
Image of Kathleen Hanna
I belive power can be used for good, I don't think every form of power is absolute evil. I wish I would have stepped in, and I really regret it. And that's why I really encourage young people who are organizing to speak up.
- Kathleen Hanna
Collection: Regret
Image of Nhat Hanh
As you walk, you touch the ground mindfully, and every step can bring you solidity and joy and freedom. Freedom from your regret concerning the past, and freedom from your fear about the future.
- Nhat Hanh
Collection: Regret
Image of Ernest Hemingway
My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.
- Ernest Hemingway
Collection: Regret
Image of Hal Elrod
We must embrace the fact that if we don't commit to thinking and living differently than most people now, we are setting ourselves up to endure a life of mediocrity, struggle, failure and regret-just like most people.
- Hal Elrod
Collection: Regret
Image of Stephen Hawking
Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.
- Stephen Hawking
Collection: Regret
Image of Kristin Hannah
One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.
- Kristin Hannah
Collection: Regret
Image of Saint Augustine
A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal myself. They will take heart from my good traits, and sigh with sadness at my bad ones. My good points are instilled by you and are your gifts. My bad points are my faults and your judgements on them. Let them take heart from the one and regret the other. Let both praise and tears ascend in your sight from brotherly hearts, your censers. ...But you Lord...Make perfect my imperfections.
- Saint Augustine
Collection: Regret
Image of Christopher Hitchens
You have to choose your future regrets.
- Christopher Hitchens
Collection: Regret
Image of Jane Austen
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.
- Jane Austen
Collection: Regret
Image of Khaled Hosseini
What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
- Khaled Hosseini
Collection: Regret
Image of Charlie Kaufman
Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.
- Charlie Kaufman
Collection: Regret
Image of Zora Neale Hurston
I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Collection: Regret
Image of Daisaku Ikeda
If you summon your courage to challenge something, you’ll never be left with regret. How sad it is to spend your life wishing, “If only I’d had a little more courage.” Whatever the outcome may be, the important thing is to step forward on the path that you believe is right.
- Daisaku Ikeda
Collection: Regret
Image of Sherrilyn Kenyon
I saw my whole life flash before my eyes, boss. It was horrific. I haven’t done anything to regret yet and it’s been way too brief. I at least want a license before I check out, you know?
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Collection: Regret
Image of Francis Bacon
I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Regret
Image of Kazuo Ishiguro
Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?
- Kazuo Ishiguro
Collection: Regret
Image of Brian Jacques
Pick-a-lock, Pick-a-lock, you'll regret the day, When you took a mouse thief and locked him away, Silly cat, look at that, it's two for one, A thief and a warrior, by dawn will be gone.
- Brian Jacques
Collection: Regret
Image of Jane Jacobs
Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is, physically it has changed remarkably little. People's feelings about it, rather, have changed. The neighborhood shows a strange inability to update itself, enliven itself, repair itself, or to be sought after, out of choice, by a new generation. It is dead. Actually it was dead from birth, but nobody noticed this much until the corpse began to smell.
- Jane Jacobs
Collection: Regret
Image of Langston Hughes
Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.
- Langston Hughes
Collection: Regret
Image of Holbrook Jackson
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
- Holbrook Jackson
Collection: Regret
Image of Nicole Kidman
Regrets are ridiculous, so I don’t regret, no.
- Nicole Kidman
Collection: Regret
Image of Kay Redfield Jamison
It is true that I had wanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting having been born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad to have been born, grateful for life, and I couldn’t imagine not wanting to pass on life to someone else.
- Kay Redfield Jamison
Collection: Regret
Image of Samuel Johnson
Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves; and the officious monitor is persecuted with hatred, not because his accusation is false, but because he assumes that superiority which we are not willing to grant him, and has dared to detect what we desired to conceal.
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of Barbara Johnson
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. ... I know what regret feels like; I've earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me.
- Barbara Johnson
Collection: Regret
Image of Samuel Johnson
The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Regret
Image of Thomas Jefferson
I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned the deepest regret.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Regret
Image of Billy Joel
The happiest times in my life were when my relationships were going well - when I was in love with someone, and someone was loving me. But in my whole life, I haven't met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I'm discontented about that. I'm angry with myself. I have regrets.
- Billy Joel
Collection: Regret
Image of Billy Joel
The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.
- Billy Joel
Collection: Regret
Image of Sherrilyn Kenyon
Okay. That was nice. Clothes. You need clothes before I do something I might not regret. What was your size again, Steve? (Sunshine) Talon. (Talon) Talon. Size. Clothes. Cover him up. I’m going to go get Talon clothes. Keys. Need keys for car. Purse. Money for clothes. Shoes. Must have shoes to shop and keep feet warm. (Sunshine) What about a coat? It is wintertime. (Talon) Coats are good in the winter. (Sunshine)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Image of Samuel Johnson
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power. We must snatch the present moment, and employ it well, without too much solicitude for the future, and content ourselves with reflecting that our part is performed. He that waits for an opportunity to do much at once, may breathe out his life in idle wishes, and regret, in the last hour, his useless intentions and barren zeal.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Regret
Image of Chuck Jones
I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation. I let the part of me that is Bugs come to the surface, knowing, with regret, that I can never match his marvelous confidence.
- Chuck Jones
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Chris Gethard
If there's one regret I have of my time in comedy it's that I really I was so obsessed with improv for so many years and I exclusively did improv for the first 6 years or 7 years. I was doing comedy and then I started doing solo work and stand up, a bit of writing, making videos, and really going into it on that end.
- Chris Gethard
Collection: Regret
Image of P. D. James
I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.
- P. D. James
Collection: Regret
Image of John F. Kerry
This President has made, I regret to say, a colossal error of judgment. And judgment is what we look for in the president of the President of the United States of America.
- John F. Kerry
Collection: Regret
Image of Sherrilyn Kenyon
May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Collection: Regret
Image of Sue Monk Kidd
Regrets don't help anything.
- Sue Monk Kidd
Collection: Regret
Image of Omar Khayyam
Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.
- Omar Khayyam
Collection: Regret
Image of Samuel Johnson
There are certain topicks which are never exhausted. Of some images and sentiments the mind of man may be said to be enamoured; it meets them, however often they occur, with the same ardour which a lover feels at the sight of his mistress, and parts from them with the same regret when they can no longer be enjoyed.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Regret
Image of William James
Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.
- William James
Collection: Regret
Image of Donna Karan
My biggest style regret is that I can't fit into the models' clothes.
- Donna Karan
Collection: Regret
Image of James Joyce
A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.
- James Joyce
Collection: Regret
Image of Ken Jennings
We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a 'cyborg,' not a 'robot.'
- Ken Jennings
Collection: Regret
Image of Dwayne Johnson
You like to live life without regret but that’s what the good Lord intended for me – that’s just the way it was. My goal was to make it in the NFL, I played with a lot of great players in college who went on to have illustrious, incredible careers and in the end it just didn’t happen for me. I failed at that.
- Dwayne Johnson
Collection: Regret
Image of P. D. James
There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.
- P. D. James
Collection: Regret