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“I forgot my watch. Minutes or hours later, when the panic subsides, that is what I most regret. Not coming here in the first place - that seemed like an obvious choice - but my bare wrist, which makes it impossible for me to know how long I have been sitting in this room. My back aches, which is some indication, but it is not definite enough.”

Knows Firsts Long Has Beens Enough Choices Hours Rooms Watches Know How Impossible Minutes Regret Sitting Obvious Panic Definite Ache Indication Wrists

Author:Veronica Roth

“When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine.”

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Book:The Funny Thing Is...

Source: The Funny Thing Is...

“J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.”

Thinking Should Kind Persons Has Beens Wish Regret Should Have Plus Should Have Been Never Regret

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, 'Whatever you do, don't smoke'. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.”

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Author:Bill Nighy

“We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.”

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Author:Denis Waitley

“You must try never to regret what might have been, child. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot yet see.”

Has Beens Might Happens Past Regret Might Have Been Never Regret

Author:Richard Martin Stern

“I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.”

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Author:Ty Cobb

“I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.”

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Book:The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November, 1919

Source: The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November, 1919

“Films have been my only passion in life. I have always been proud of making films and will continue taking pride in all my films. I have never made a movie I have not believed in. However, though I love all my films, one tends to get attached to films that do well. But I do not have any regrets about making films that did not really do well at the box office.”

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Author:Yash Chopra

“All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.”

Source: Autobiography

“I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.”

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Author:Juliet Stevenson

“I have been stupid and regret making a silly mistake experimenting with drugs.”

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Author:Richard Bacon

“I regret my choice of words which do not accurately reflect the process of the James committee, with which I have been closely involved and totally support.”

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Author:Howard Flight

“But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.”

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Book:Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition

Source: Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition

“One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.”

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Author:Charles Dudley Warner

“I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.”

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Author:Publilius Syrus

“Clearly, I regret the email was quoted incorrectly and I regret that it's become a distraction from the story, which still entirely stands. I should have been clearer about the attribution. We updated our story immediately.”

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Author:Jonathan Karl

“Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes.”

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Book:Yes Man

Source: Yes Man

“No regrets. Never never any regrets. Everything has been an experience and has led to me now. Everything has been important and essential. Fear... I'm afraid of what people, including myself, are capable of, but it also excites me. I'm afraid of the atrocities that we are capable of and the things that can happen if everyone makes decisions based on fear.”

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Author:Brandon Boyd

“I have long dreaded the thought of getting to the end of life and regretting that I allowed my own timidity or other people's expectations to determine the course of my life. I had decided at a much younger age that several of my beliefs should determine the course of my life...I...believe that Waengongi, the Creator, has an epic script into which my minute presence has been written.”

People Should Believe Long Has Beens Ends Age Courses Belief I Believe My Own Written Minutes Regret Expectations Decided Scripts Determine Creator Epic End Of Life Timidity

Book:End of the Spear

Source: End of the Spear

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