Best regret & hours Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.”

Want Hours Regret Birthday

Author:Walter Cronkite

“I have the deepest regret about 9/11. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most difficult days I've ever had. I was in Lima, Peru, and had to fly back eight hours not knowing what happened in my own country, knowing thousands of my fellow citizens had died.”

Country Difficult Hours My Own Knowing Happened Regret Citizens Died Fellows Eight Not Knowing Peru Sept 11 Difficult Days

Author:Colin Powell

“A seamlessly told and scrupulously detailed history of the Hartsoe clan of Haw County, North Carolina, Love and Lament is that rare novel that brings the gritty, rural past to vivid life. I could very nearly smell the moonshine (the moonshiners too!). Pass a few hours with Mary Bet Hartsoe and family. You won't regret it.”

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Author:T. R. Pearson

“I decided long ago that my family absolutely comes first, and I don't regret that. I do, however, sometimes wish I had an extra five hours or so in the day!”

Firsts Long Sometimes Wish Hours Five Regret My Family Decided Extras Long Ago Don't Regret

Author:Elizabeth Hoyt

“I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.”

Years Long Wanted Hours Careers Regret Perspective Six Projects Majors Long Time Training Eight Championship Competing Get Over Athletics New Projects Doldrums

Author:Daley Thompson

“Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents. No phone, no pool, no pets, ain't got no big regrets. Two hours of pushin' broom, buys an eight by twelve, four-bit room. I'm a man of means, by no means, king of the road.”

Men Mean Two Bigs Bits Hours Rooms Four Regret Kings Travel Phones Eight Fifty Pet Pool Twelve Cents Trailers Brooms

Author:Roger Miller

“I've been taught not to have any regrets. If we were to add up all of the hours spent regretting mistakes and use that time to develop new ideas, who knows how many brilliant new businesses would be created.”

Ifs Knows Ideas Use Would Be Hours Mistake Know How Taught Regret Add Brilliant New Ideas New Business

Author:Richard Branson

“O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.”

Ifs Age Hours Pleasure Regret Birthday I Regret 60th Birthday

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.”

Feelings Joy Night Lost Sound Christ Hours Church Memories College Regret Mad Intense Occasions Clock Toms Towers Evoke Oxford Pms Rare Occasion

Author:A. N. Wilson

“In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.”

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Author:Stefan Zweig

“In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.”

May Said Age Given Hours Secret Regret Fellows Endless Cells Hermits Recluse

Book:The Country of the Pointed Firs

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs

“What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose life.”

Mean Doe Choices Hours Regret Bears

Author:Michael Cunningham

“It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.”

Turns Hours Regret Clock Seconds

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”

Source: Little Women (Illustrated Edition)

“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.”

Way Feels Littles Made Stills I Can Turns Fall Hours Forget Wonder Our Lives Fate Regret Right Now Can Not Twists Feels Right

Author:Rob Thomas

“I don't have that many days left," he said as we sat together in the library. "Why would I want to spend them on matters of drainage and overdue accounts? I must husband my hours and spend every one of them wisely. I regret that I didn't come to this realization until I reached fifty years of age. Calpurnia, you would do well to adopt such an attitude at an earlier age. Spend each of your allotted hours with care.”

Want Years Wells Said Matter Care Age Together Left Hours Attitude Regret Husband Accounts Library Realization Sat Fifty I Regret Overdue Drainage Calpurnia

Author:Jacqueline Kelly

“That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.”

Said Facts Night Hours Regret Bed Late Lays Wit Solitary Midnight Peaking

Book:The Blindfold

Source: The Blindfold

“Erin and I spent four hours shopping for dresses and shoes Tuesday night. She was going all out in her intention to make Chaz regret any decision he'd made that didn't include worshipping at her feet.”

Made Night Hours Decision Four Feet Regret Dresses Intention Shoes Shopping Tuesday Erin Tuesday Night

Author:Tammara Webber

“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.”

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Author:Veronica Roth

“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.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“I wouldn't waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy. Feed ravenously. Or the biggest regret you'll have at the end of your life is wasted time.”

Want Ends Moments Life Is Enjoy Hours Regret Waste What You Want Damn Caution Wasted Time

Book:Genuine Lies

Source: Genuine Lies

“Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.”

Source: Italy, a Poem

“I rarely come away from presenting the 'Today' programme without some sense of regret. There is always some question that I should have asked, or some point that I should have made. This is annoying but not surprising. Perfection is hard to achieve in a three-hour live programme.”

Should Made Hard Today Three Hours Achieve Regret Perfection Should Have Annoying Surprising Presenting Programmes

Author:Evan Davis

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