Best regret & seems Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm not big on regret - until time travel actually exists, it seems like a waste of making yourself feel bad”

Feels Bigs Seems Regret Waste Time Travel

Book:I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Se nsitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated

Source: I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Se nsitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated

“Reject without regret whatever seems on reflection wrongheaded, dull, destructive, or irrelevant to your vision. It’s just as important to be able to discriminate between helpful and unhelpful criticism as it is to be able to write.”

Writing Important Seems Able Vision Regret Reflection Criticism Dull Destructive Helpful Rejects Irrelevant

Author:Janet Burroway

“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

“Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed to events, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety.”

Moments Seems Individual Events Regret Anxiety Wholeness Cheerful

Book:Time and the Art of Living

Source: Time and the Art of Living

“I don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine.”

Ifs Knows Looks Moments Seems Know How Regret Fine

Author:Norman Lear

“I love swimming in the darker seas, so even if I play a noble guy (well, like Lincoln for instance) I am pre-disposed to try and show the conflict; the regret; the less-than-perfect choices that any human faces. That's what I like and it seems to be what the camera likes to see me do.”

Ifs Trying Humans Wells Play Shows Seems Faces Guy Choices Perfect Sea Regret Conflict Cameras Noble Likes Instance Swimming Human Faces I Love Swimming

Author:Bill Oberst Jr.

“I don't have any problem with the United States acting on behalf of its own interests. That's what big powers do; that's what all countries do. I would just like to see us analyze in a serious way what really is in our interest. Sometimes we intervene in foreign countries in ways that seem successful at first. In the end, however, we wind up with unpredicted consequences that make us regret those operations.”

Way Firsts Ends Country Sometimes States Problem Bigs Seems Interest United Acting United States Successful Serious Wind Regret Consequence Operations Behalf Foreign Countries

Author:Stephen Kinzer

“As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.”

Thinking Seems Grows Regret Habit I Regret

Book:Allan Quatermain #1: King Solomon's Mines

Source: Allan Quatermain #1: King Solomon's Mines

“Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.”

Humans Seems Regret Seasons Christmas Holiday Flaws Festivals Human Relationships Consoling Christmas Cheer

Book:Travels With My Aunt

Source: Travels With My Aunt

“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

“He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as space travel. He hadn't always felt this way. There had been a long period of time during which he remembered being very happy. But things change. People change. Change was one of the inevitable laws of nature, exacting its toll on people's lives. Mistakes are made, regrets form, and all that was left were repercussions that made something as simple as rising from the bed seem almost laborious.”

“The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's generosity? Why regret one's impulsiveness, one's misjudgment of others? The inevitable discovery that someone is selling letters you'd written in trust is simply to discover an obvious human truth: there are those who don't cherish us as we'd cherished them, and had wished to be cherished by them.”

Ifs Humans Seems Might Written Regret Discovery Letters Obvious Selling Generosity Inevitable Cherish Reckless Retrospect

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“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

“Of course it does, Jomes answered earnestly. Many of life's treasures remain hidden from us simply because we never search for them. Often we do not ask the proper questions that might lead us to the answer to all our challenges. We are so caught up in fear and regret, that hope seems a foolish endeavor. Proof of hope, however, is not only possible, it is an overlooked law of the universe.”

Doe Seems Might Law Universe Courses Asks Challenges Answers Regret Caught Proof Foolish Treasure Endeavor Caught Up Overlooked

Author:Andy Andrews

“If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.”

Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring. [p. 199]”

People Seems Growth Mistake Regret Critical Remorse Same Mistakes Making The Same Mistakes

Author:Mary Catherine Bateson

“War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.”

Humans War Seems Culture Nature Human Nature Regret Scene Disappear

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.”

Want Humans Moments Seems Force Crazy Regret Pebbles

Book:Half a Life: A Memoir

Source: Half a Life: A Memoir

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