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“There is a haunting phantom called Regret, A shadowy creature robed somewhat like woe, But fairer in the face, whom all men know By her said mien, and eyes forever wet. No heart would seek her; but once having met All take her by the hand, and to and fro They wander through those paths of long ago-- Those hallowed ways 'twere wiser to forget.”

Knows Men Way Heart Long Said Hands Eye Faces Forget Forever Path Regret Mets Creatures Wander Wet Long Ago Wiser Woe Haunting Phantoms

Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Differences in political opinions are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary; but it is exceedingly to be regretted that subjects cannot be discussed with temper on the one hand, or decisions submitted to without having the motives, which led to them, improperly implicated on the other; and this regret borders on chagrin when we find that men of abilities, zealous patriots, having the same general objects in view, and the same upright intentions to prosecute them, will not exercise more charity in deciding on the opinions and actions of one another.”

Source: The real George Washington

“You can eat beef on a weekly basis and become a genius intuitive if your energy is in present time.You can consume only organic food while running thirty-five miles a day and "om-ing" until dawn, but if your spirit is raging about your history and is saturated in regrets and unfinished business, you won't be able to intuit your left hand from your right.”

Ifs Hands Running Able Spirit Energy Left Five Regret Genius Bases Rage Miles Dawn Thirty Intuitive Beef Unfinished Present Time Left Hand Saturated Organic Food Unfinished Business

Author:Caroline Myss

“Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.”

Home Hands House Virtue Building Regret

Book:Italian Days

Source: Italian Days

“The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,--in degree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter madness.”

Men May Hands Past Suffering Gone Regret Degrees Madness Possession Over It

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed.”

Hands Water Wonder Regret Staring Plunge Wrists

Author:W. H. Auden

“You know, when you see yourself on a big screen, I tend to watch from behind my hands. There is absolutely the regret. You always get that at the end of every project. That's what's great about theater: at least every night you get the chance to go out and re-offend. I'm endlessly disappointed, which is what propels me into the next project, probably, not to repair the damage but to kind of hopefully keep developing. Otherwise there's no reason to keep doing it, is there?”

Knows Kind Ends Reason Hands Bigs Night Next Chance Acting Behinds Watches Regret Projects Theater Screens Hopefully Developing Damage No Reason Disappointed Every Night Big Screen

Author:Cate Blanchett

“Of course, I do not regret the Bond days. I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth, I have always hated guns and what they represent.”

Hands Courses Regret Hero Gun Hated Telling The Truth I Regret

Author:Roger Moore

“I regret to say that my hand did, in fact, have an improper relationship with Chelsea Clinton. The incident represents a profound lapse of judgment for which my hand takes sole responsibility.”

Facts Hands Responsibility Regret Judgment Profound Clinton Sole Incidents I Regret Chelsea Lapses

Author:William J. Clinton

“God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.”

Years Play Hands Regret Very Good No Regrets Have No Regrets

Author:Ed Koch

“In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.”

Firsts May Hands House Decision Leader Fate Regret Majority Senate Speakers Presidency Nancy Majority Leader

Author:Karl Rove

“When I went into the last lap I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the first sector for the last time. Simply fantastic this circuit, and if you get 53 laps more, you appreciate it even more. It's made by God's hands.”

Ifs Firsts Made Hands Lasts Bits Enjoy Regret Appreciate Fantastic Last Time Lap Circuits

Author:Sebastian Vettel

“I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.”

Knows Stills Soul Hands Able Dies Poor Struggle Dying Regret Weak Breaths My Soul I Regret Diseased Regret Nothing

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Crashing into the trembling void Stretching my hand to you Losing myself to frigid regret Is this fragile love A way To say Good-bye”

Way Hands Regret Losing Fragile Void Stretching Bye Trembling Good Bye Saying Good Bye Frigid Losing Myself

Book:Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)

Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)

“I am the man you've needed all you life. I can give you whatever you wish before you even realize you are wishing for it. I can fill your every longing , heal your every wound, right your every wrong. You have enemies? Not with me at your side. You have hunger? I will find the most succulent, ripe morsel and feed you with my bare hands. You have pain? I will ease it. Bad dreams? I will chase them asunder. Regrets? I will go back and undo them. Command me, Beauty, and I am yours. -Adam Black”

Men Giving I Can Dream Hands Pain Wish Sides Black Realizing Enemy Regret Needed Longing Hunger Wounds Heal Command Ease Adam Ripe Your Side Bad Dream Succulents

Author:Karen Marie Moning

“I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.”

Stills Soul Hands Poor Dying Regret Weak My Soul I Regret Diseased Regret Nothing

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Alex gazed at her. Her mouth was slightly open; she ran her fingernail against her lower teeth as she thought. She'd knotted her hair at the nape of her neck again, and a strand had slipped loose onto her shoulder, gleaming in the lantern light. Suddenly all of his objections seemed meaningless. Don't, he thought. You'll regret it. He didn't care anymore. Slowly, unable to stop himself, he reached out and cupped his hand around her foot.”

Hands Light Care Feet Regret Hair Mouths Shoulders Teeth Ran Necks Meaningless Alex Objections Strands Fingernails Lanterns Lantern Light You'll Regret It

Author:L.A. Weatherly

“It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said. She laughed. 'Really?' The machine shrugged and let go of her hand. 'Oh, no. It's just something we tell ourselves.”

Humans Said Hands Regret Letting Go Machines Laughed

Author:Iain Banks

“It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.”

Heart Hands Realizing Half Regret Cold Lifetime Despite Certainty Touched Sooner Or Later Naive

Author:Jonathan Carroll

“His gaze narrowed and she could see his hands twitching again like he’d love nothing more than to throttle her. She was beginning to think it was an affliction of his. Did he go around wanting to choke the life out of everyone or was she special in that regard? “I’m afraid ’tis an urge that is entirely original to you,” the laird barked. She clamped her mouth shut and closed her eyes. Mother Serenity had vowed one day Mairin would regret her propensity to blurt out her least little thought. Today just might be that day.”

Thinking Littles Hands Might Eye Today Mother Special Regret One Day Mouths Regard Originals Urges Serenity Her Eyes Affliction Choke Propensity Throttle Twitching

Author:Maya Banks

“Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache. It is not a garment I cast off this day, bit a skin that I tear with my own hands... Yet I cannot tarry longer.”

Children Hands Pain Spirit Bits My Own Walks Streets Tears Regret Skins Longing Casts Burden Naked Hills Attachment This Day Ache Fragments Garments These Streets

Author:Khalil Gibran

“The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that sudden changes and legislative interferences, in cases affecting personal rights, become jobs in the hands of enterprising and influential speculators, and snares to the more-industrious and less informed part of the community. They have seen, too, that one legislative interference is but the first link of a long chain of repetitions, every subsequent interference being naturally produced by the effects of the preceding.”

Source: The Origin of the Nation: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights and Other Amendments, Federalist Papers & Common Sense: Creating America - Landmark Documents that Shaped a New Nation

“Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.”

Hands Past Worry Regret Duty Tense Live In The Present Present Tense

Author:William DeWitt Hyde

“Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs, who seized three-pronged lances when the warlords raised whips in their black hands. We were brave and sacrifice was easy and we asked the sun, the moon, to alter the sky. Now I see a thousand waves of beans and rice and am happy. In the evening haze heroes are coming home.”

“Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.”

Ifs Hands Courses Winning Chance Regret Madness Mad Looking Back Take A Chance Irresponsible No Regrets Idiotic Forlorn

Author:Bernard Cornwell

“Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On the other hand, with our constant struggle, this had to be done together with others in the communist world to stop Kampuchea becoming Vietnamese.”

World Done Enough Hands Together Wish Struggle Movement Regret Becoming Blame Constant Communist Entitled I Regret Vietnamese Constant Struggle

Author:Pol Pot

“Regret is an uneven hand, a rough palm at the cheek — tender and calloused.”

Hands Regret Rough Cheeks Palms

Book:Sueno

Source: Sueno

“Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.”

Ifs Hands Funny Fun Ready Regret Blessing Having Fun Weekend Singer Songwriters Rock Music Hands Up My Blessing Hands In The Air

Author:Florence Welch