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“All things are possible, ... Except the passing of regret.”

Regret All Things Passing Passings

Author:David Gemmell

“Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.”

Problem Seems Guy Dying Loneliness Regret Scary Passing Passings Isolation Sickness Mask Hockey Time Passing Time Passes Relationship Problem Isolation And Loneliness

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“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.”

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Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.”

Giving Has Beens Home Regret Give Me Passing Passings Our Time My Time Wasting Time Employed Idleness Could Have Been Doing Nothing Time Away Lounging

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.”

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Author:Lucille Ball

“Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.”

Want Heart Brain Regret Unions Passing Passings Soviet Cold War Soviet Union

Author:Vladimir Putin

“...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." "sacrifice is a part of life. it is supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices. a mother works so her son can go to school. a daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else.”

“For me, the times I always regret are missed opportunities to say farewell to good people, to wish them long life and say to them in all sincerity, "You build and do not destroy; you sow goodwill and reap it; smiles bloom in the wake of your passing, and I will keep your kindness in trust and share it as occasion arises, so that your life will be a quenching draught of calm in a land of drought and stress." Too often I never get to say that when it should be said. Instead, I leave them with the equivalent of a "Later, dude!" only to discover there would be no later for us.”

Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted

“He had regrets, of course, but not so many that he would lose any sleep over them. Life surprised him now and then and he didn't much care for surprises, unless he was passing them out. But - what was to be done? You had to deal with the reality, he had learned that over the years, no matter how much you didn't like it”

Years Matter Done Reality Care Courses Loses Sleep Deals Learning Regret Surprise Passing Passings Now And Then

Author:Steve Perry

“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.”

“I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.”

Regret Battle Drug Passing Passings Warrior War On Drugs Don't Regret I'm Sad

Author:Marc Maron

“I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.”

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson