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“I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.”

Humans Race Records Regret Flight Human Race Aviation

Author:Winston Churchill

“Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space , and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy the foundations of their religious faith . They may be right, but in any event their attitude is one which does not bear logical examination for a faith which cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.”

May Doe Religious Space Race Attitude Events Regret Bears Truth Is Intelligent Foundation Contact Logical Suspects Examination Religious Faith Crossings Collision

Book:By Space Possessed

Source: By Space Possessed

“Jeb Bush is facing criticism after it was just revealed that he checked off his race as 'Hispanic' on a voter registration form back in 2009. When asked if he regrets it now, Bush said, 'Si.'”

Ifs Said Form Race Regret Criticism Voters Hispanic Registration Voter Registration

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“once your eyes get opened to pacifism, you can't shut them again. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. You may bitterly regret the fact that you happen to be one of the tiny minority of the human race who have caught this angle of vision, but you can't help it.”

Humans May Facts Helping Happens Eye Peace Race Vision Regret Caught Tiny Human Race Minorities Angle Pacifism

Book:It Occurred to Me

Source: It Occurred to Me

“The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.”

Ifs Running Winning Social Race Hell Regret Lions Mates Packs Constructs Cages Forsake Caged Dwellers

Author:T. D. Jakes

“I will always cherish the times at JGR. The only thing that I regret is that we didn't win more races and/or championships.”

Winning Race Regret Cherish Championship I Regret

Author:Bobby Labonte

“When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the gospel to pumpkin pie. These, however, much as we may regret it, most savages receive with indifference. What they really value among the gifts that we bring to them is intoxicating liquor which enables them, for the first time in their lives, to have the illusion for a few brief moments that it is better to be alive than dead.”

Source: Human Society in Ethics and Politics

“I have no regrets. I have not one single regret. I was born with a wonderful DNA where I felt that my life was not a race against someone else or another artist. It was probably internal.”

Artist Felt Born Race Wonderful Regret Internals Dna No Regrets Have No Regrets

Author:Andy Kim

“The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities. Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but in which we fail to bet on the winner.”

Source: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

“Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.”

Thinking Humans Made Two Opportunity Race Effects Regret Evolution Cost Commit Reputation Human Race Folly Grotesque Larks

Book:Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

“If I have a foreign accent—which I much regret—it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the great Jewish race, and my somewhat uncultivated language is the outcome of our enforced wanderings.”

Ifs Language Race Regret Daughter Wander Outcomes Accents

Author:Sarah Bernhardt