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Image of Kate Winslet
I have no regrets. If you regret things, you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards.
- Kate Winslet
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Image of Kate Winslet
Regret isn't good. Every decision one makes in life is made for a reason or another. Whenever something bad happens, I go, 'This is happening for a reason', or, 'This is going to teach me something'.
- Kate Winslet
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Image of Eric Morecambe
I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.
- Eric Morecambe
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Image of William Arthur Ward
Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.
- William Arthur Ward
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Image of André Aciman
And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.
- André Aciman
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Image of Tavis Smiley
I don't think I'd live anything over, even though I've made a lot of mistakes. I have learned how to see failure as a friend. So, I'm not one to live a life of regrets. I try to learn from my mistakes, but I'll take my life the way it is.
- Tavis Smiley
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Image of Guy Sajer
A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition.
- Guy Sajer
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Image of Vikram Chandra
Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.' 'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.' 'When are we happy?' 'When we desire nothing and realize that possession is only momentary, and so are forever playing.' 'What is regret?' 'To realize that one has spent one's life worrying about the future.' 'What is sorrow?' 'To long for the past.' 'What is the highest pleasure?' 'To hear a good story.
- Vikram Chandra
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Image of Emma Stone
I've learned that you have to stay true to yourself from all the amazing people I've had the opportunity to work with thus far. You have to stay true to yourself and don't be afraid even though people may say what you're doing isn't cool or isn't right. I promise you, you will not regret it if you stay true to who you are and what you love to do because there is no other reason that I am up here today receiving this award.
- Emma Stone
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Image of Christopher Brookmyre
My reaction to your news is delighted astonishment that Lanark has been judged more popular than a book by Ian Rankin, and only regret that this wonderful honour had no money attached to it!
- Christopher Brookmyre
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Image of Tony Parsons
The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.
- Tony Parsons
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Image of Baroness Orczy
I shall return, doubt it not. Such love as ours was not created to remain unfulfilled. Whatever may happen, believe and trust in me, as I shall in you, and keep the remembrance of me in your heart without sadness and without regret.
- Baroness Orczy
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Image of Jean Webster
It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.
- Jean Webster
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Image of Patricia Grasso
I can manage the regret, if not my own finances.
- Patricia Grasso
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Image of Frank O'Hara
I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. It's more important to confirm the least sincere. The clouds get enough attention as it is.
- Frank O'Hara
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Image of Tara Reid
I don't really regret anything I've done, even if it's bad. I mean, I have a $100,000 Chopard watch. I don't need a $100,000 watch, but I like it. It's all diamonds. That's a little extreme, but I don't care.
- Tara Reid
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Image of Robert Stone
You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.
- Robert Stone
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Image of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Image of Kristen Stewart
If you follow your heart, you're never going to regret anything, even if you completely mess up constantly.
- Kristen Stewart
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Image of Kristen Stewart
There's no reason to regret anything. Regret is a waste.
- Kristen Stewart
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Image of Sigrid Undset
No doing without some ruing.
- Sigrid Undset
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Image of Sylvia Plath
The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
- Sylvia Plath
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Image of Sarah Addison Allen
Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.
- Sarah Addison Allen
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Image of Ralph Washington Sockman
Let us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
- Ralph Washington Sockman
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Image of Matt    Chandler
God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.
- Matt Chandler
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Image of Corey Taylor
You have to live in these moments, not for them. If you look too hard, they blow right by you. If you do not live enough, you will regret every breath.
- Corey Taylor
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Image of Christina Milian
The best business decision I've made was to become a songwriter. I can't say that I have a worst, because I don't have any regrets.
- Christina Milian
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Image of Ai Yazawa
Are you living everyday so that even if the end were to come you’d have to regrets?
- Ai Yazawa
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Image of Alanis Morissette
I never regret anything I do. It's part of who I am now, and I like who I am now.
- Alanis Morissette
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Image of Mitch Albom
We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
- Mitch Albom
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Image of Sebastian Barry
The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us so full of longing to the sea.
- Sebastian Barry
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Image of Robert Grudin
Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed to events, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety.
- Robert Grudin
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Image of Wayne Newton
I dont really believe in regrets.
- Wayne Newton
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Image of Tao Lin
I don't know how to incorporate regret. But I'll say, like, "It affected me that way," "I learned this," "Next time maybe I'll do it differently".
- Tao Lin
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Image of Bill Russell
I don't have very many regrets, not because I lived a perfect life but because life is a bunch of rolling hills, not mountains, or speed bumps instead of stop signs, and so you come to a situation and it's neither good or bad, it just is, and what it means to you is what's your take on it. But the second part of the equation is what are you going to do about it. A lot of times I'm completely wrong, but all you do is back up and start over.
- Bill Russell
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Image of Ellis Peters
In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.
- Ellis Peters
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Image of Dorothy Koomson
Always regret the things you did do, never the things you didn't.
- Dorothy Koomson
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Image of Sophie Scholl
I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct.
- Sophie Scholl
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Image of Lawrence James
I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.
- Lawrence James
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Image of Jane McGonigal
If you are a gamer, it’s time to get over any regret you might feel about spending so much time playing games. You have not been wasting your time. You have been building up a wealth of virtual experience that, as the first half of this book will show you, can teach you about your true self: what your core strengths are, what really motivates you, and what make you happiest.
- Jane McGonigal
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Image of Lemmy Kilmister
I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it.
- Lemmy Kilmister
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Image of Jack Nicholson
When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.
- Jack Nicholson
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Image of Pseudonymous Bosch
Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.
- Pseudonymous Bosch
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Image of Rob Thomas
Our lives are made in these small hours, these little wonders, these twists & turns of fate. Time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours still remain. All of my regret, will wash away somehow. But i can not forget, the way i feel right now.
- Rob Thomas
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Image of Elizabeth Warren
Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it.
- Elizabeth Warren
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Image of Zinedine Zidane
You rarely come across the complete footballer, but Scholes is as close to it as you can get. One of my regrets is that the opportunity to play alongside him never presented itself during my career.
- Zinedine Zidane
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Image of Tabitha Suzuma
Do I realy regret that night? That one moment of joy beyond compare – some people never experience it in a lifetime. But the downside to that taste of pure happiness is that,like a drug, a glimmer of paradise, it leaves you craving more.
- Tabitha Suzuma
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Image of Waris Dirie
I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.
- Waris Dirie
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Image of Kim Basinger
When I'm old I'm never going to say,I didn't do this or, I regret that. I'm going to say,I don't regret a damn thing. I came, I went, and I did it all.
- Kim Basinger
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