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“The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are past middle life - and I hope you have the rich experience of love along the way - don't think everything is all over. Don't regret the vanished cocktail when the stuffed turkey is about to come in. Flip out your napkin and bite into it! Friends you can gather around you in the later years of life are worth the whole thing.”

Thinking Men World Way Years Littles Done Whole Past Love Is Rich Middle Regret Lovers Men And Women Bites Turkeys Flip Cocktails Don't Regret Napkins Years Of Life

Author:Marie Dressler

“I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.”

Men Age Brain Heard Middle Youth Regret Passing Passings Middle Ages Middle Aged

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.”

Two Done Middle Regret East London Middle East

Author:Zaha Hadid

“In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made”

Made Self Age Pain Loss Middle Regret Sorrow Passionate Conclusion Bitter Middle Ages Disillusionment Self Made

Book:Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women

Source: Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women

“Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, “Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead you always get a chicken. Or a duck. Or whatever they're programmed to be. You never get anything interesting, like regret, or the middle of the night last week.”

Thinking Mean Able Lasts Night Interesting Week Middle Regret Ought Eggs Chickens Be You Ducks Inadequate Middle Of The Night Translators

Author:Ann Leckie

“I was at a restaurant and I heard this little voice at a nearby table pipe up and say, 'I believe I will have the chowder.' I got up and walked out into the middle of the restaurant. There was Sterling Holloway just sitting there being Sterling Holloway. Never in a million years would I have imagined that I'd have the honor of filling his shoes. I just regret not going up to him and saying hello.”

Years Believe Littles I Believe Voice Millions Heard Middle Regret Honor Sitting Tables Shoes Restaurants Hello Filling Pipe Sterling Saying Hello

Author:Jim Cummings

“At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.”

Kind Shows Age Middle Regret Folly Fifteen Middle Ages Resonance

Author:Charles Busch

“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”

Play Age Learning Childhood Middle Regret Old Age Birthday Fatherhood Arbitrary Middle Ages 40th Birthday Old Birthday Funny 40 Year Old Birthday

Author:Margaret Mead

“The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.”

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Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul.”

Knows Years Kind Children Littles Soul Problem Seems Found Chance Mistake Share Middle Regret Commitment Forty Middle Aged Old Soul Life Regret

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?”

Years Age Pain Pleasure Forever Middle Youth Regret Return Ten Aging Shoulders Pretending Middle Ages Pain And Pleasure

Book:Books and Men

Source: Books and Men

“She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not take seriously the intellectual decline. Having given up the Empire and the mass production of industrial goods, Britain's future lay in its scientific and artistic pre-eminence. Mrs Thatcher will be long remembered for the damage she has done.”

“The consequence could be that we would have an escalation that would take place that would not only involve many lives, but I think it could consume the Middle East in a confrontation and a conflict that we would regret.”

Thinking Middle Regret Conflict Consequence East Middle East Confrontation Escalation

Author:Leon Panetta