Regret Quotes

‘I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.’ – Lucille Ball

‘We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.’ – Jim Rohn

‘Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.’ – Don Miguel Ruiz

‘Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.’ – L. Ron Hubbard

‘If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.’ – Jim Carrey

‘Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.’ – Sydney J. Harris

‘I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.’ – Queen Latifah

‘I don’t regret what I’ve been through. I’ve had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I’ve been so blessed that I could never say, ‘I wish this didn’t happen.’ It’s part of who I am. There’s nothing in my life that’s so ugh.’ – Jennifer Lopez

‘Do what you love and go after your dreams. Don’t regret it. Don’t hesitate.’ – Jackson Wang

‘Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.’ – Swami Sivananda

‘Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.’ – Basil Rathbone

‘It’s better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.’ – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

‘I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.’ – Nathan Hale

‘Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. ‘Black Rain’ was very much about choices. The message – we are what we chose to be.’ – Graham Brown

‘I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations – one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it – you will regret both.’ – Soren Kierkegaard

‘We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.’ – Fulton Oursler

‘We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.’ – Lucy Maud Montgomery

‘The one thing I learned is to just give everything a shot. You don’t want to live in regret.’ – Chloe Kim

‘Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.’ – Aaron Burr

‘My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.’ – Woody Allen

‘I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.’ – Gavrilo Princip

‘Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.’ – Robert E. Lee

‘I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.’ – Zachary Taylor

‘At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.’ – Barbara Bush

‘Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn’t turn out very well – you go, ‘Why did you do that?’ But in the end, I can’t regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.’ – Robin Williams

‘Life is too short to hold regrets. Once it’s done, you cannot regret it.’ – Kay Kay Menon

‘I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.’ – Publilius Syrus

‘I do not regret the things I’ve done, but those I did not do.’ – Rory Cochrane

‘Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.’ – C. S. Lewis

‘I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.’ – J. Edgar Hoover

‘It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don’t regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn’t save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I’m not naive, and I don’t romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.’ – Chris Kyle

‘Speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.’ – Laurence J. Peter

‘In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.’ – John C. Calhoun

‘Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘I have grown to appreciate the power of believing in myself and of always having faith in myself. I rarely look back; instead, I always look forward. There is so much of life that we miss when we wallow in regret.’ – Tony Bennett

‘I’d rather regret doing something than not doing something.’ – James Hetfield

‘Sometimes I sit down and I think ‘Do I regret this? Do I regret that?’ And I feel like everything makes this snowball effect, you know? If you regret something, it’s good because it just means that it’s something that’s affected you enough for you to stop and think… There’s a reason that everything happens.’ – Santan Dave

‘I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.’ – Drew Barrymore

‘Never regret what you don’t write.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘I’m not a fan of small talk but if you want to get into the big questions of life – your deepest regret, your greatest joy – then we’re going to have a great chat.’ – Anh Do

‘I regret those times when I’ve chosen the dark side. I’ve wasted enough time not being happy.’ – Jessica Lange

‘Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.’ – George Sand

‘I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember… it’s not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.’ – Randy Pausch

‘You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.’ – Aubrey O’Day

‘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.’ – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

‘My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘I smoked for almost 10 years. I really regret that. Thankfully, I came out on the other side. I hope my lungs are repairing themselves now.’ – Michelle Monaghan

‘There is nothing to regret with a job well done.’ – Joe Garcia

‘I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.’ – Marlon Brando

‘I never regret. I don’t like to look back on my life and have regrets.’ – Sarah Harding

‘The only things you regret are the things you don’t do.’ – Michael Curtiz

‘Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can’t build on it it’s only good for wallowing in.’ – Katherine Mansfield

‘I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.’ – Kanye West

‘I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.’ – J. Paul Getty

‘I live a life that I never regret any decision.’ – Ricky Rubio

‘To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear children, and this implies having autonomy or control over one’s life. In the 19th century, becoming an adult was celebrated as a liberation from paternal authority. Today we regard it more as a time of regret and stagnation.’ – Jane Ridley

‘Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.’ – Ray Stannard Baker

‘Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.’ – Monica Johnson

‘Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I’m content.’ – William Shatner

‘I regret and suffer those losses, but it’s God’s will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don’t think I did.’ – Augusto Pinochet

‘I’m living with every step. I can’t live with regret. The past is the past. I’m not worried about it. I can’t change it. I can’t fix it. It is what it is. I’m just living.’ – Ryan Sheckler

‘Don’t be afraid of girls. That is my big regret. Knowing what I know about girls, I should have just gone for it. Guys are such wimps.’ – Tony Hawk

‘To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.’ – Bodhidharma

‘The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either.’ – Mick Jagger

‘I’ve done a lot of things that I regret.’ – R. Kelly

‘To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible – that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.’ – David Whyte

‘If you compromise and hire someone mediocre, you will always regret it.’ – Sam Altman

‘The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.’ – Francoise Sagan

‘Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.’ – Alphonse Karr

‘I was once the captain of Akagi, and it is with heartfelt regret that I must now order that she be sunk.’ – Isoroku Yamamoto

‘I can’t think of anything I regret. Everything I’ve done, I’ve enjoyed doing. I’ve had five husbands, four children. I’ve done it all, but mainly I’ve enjoyed studying fish and being underwater with them, being in their natural habitat, looking at the fish and the fish looking at me.’ – Eugenie Clark

‘I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I’m quite proud that I’ve had fun with fashion and don’t always look perfect. The only regret I have is when I look at something I wore when I was very young and it obviously looks like it belonged to someone else.’ – Emma Watson

‘No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.’ – Samuel Beckett

‘I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It’s the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.’ – Lee Iacocca

‘Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without fear, love their neighbor even when they are cursed by him, and live without regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow.’ – Mother Angelica

‘The regret of my life is that I have not said ‘I love you’ often enough.’ – Yoko Ono

‘I don’t regret anything.’ – Amy Winehouse

‘I regret all of my books.’ – Zora Neale Hurston

‘A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.’ – Charles Goodyear

‘I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.’ – Samuel Adams

‘We attacked selected military targets of the P.L.O. Around, civilians were hurt, I don’t want to deny it. Very regrettable, very regrettable. We regret it deeply.’ – Menachem Begin

‘There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions. To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry.’ – Matt Lauer

‘Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.’ – Kathryn Schulz

‘I try to face things without regret, or make sure that I’m happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can.’ – Hozier

‘Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.’ – Robert Greene

‘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.’ – Stefan Zweig

‘When I’m 40, I’m gonna look back, and I really, really hope I won’t regret anything.’ – Sean O’Malley

‘One can never regret the decisions made at the time you make them, because that can only lead to bitterness and sadness.’ – David Nutter

‘A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.’ – Oliver Goldsmith

‘I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.’ – Katharine Hepburn

‘We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.’ – Robert Falcon Scott

‘Your heart and your instincts are far more reliable than your brain. When you follow your heart, you can be sure you won’t regret it later. Even if you calculate your every move, it’s not like life ever goes according to plan.’ – Nithya Menen

‘I could win 20 Grand Slams and I’d be happy, but I’d regret not doing what I love the most, which is changing perceptions of disability, which broadcasting helps.’ – Dylan Alcott

‘I regret so much. I’ve made mistakes. I’ve hurt people. I’ve done things I’m not proud of. But on the other hand, that way lies madness, you know?’ – Faye Dunaway

‘As long as you feel good in something, it doesn’t matter what other people think. You just have to own it. You’ll never regret wearing something you really love.’ – Lucy Boynton

‘I don’t have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we’ve all made some of those. But I’m not sad about change.’ – John Gutfreund

‘I love to never regret, or go, ‘I wish I would have tried that.” – Sara Evans

‘You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.’ – George Armstrong Custer

‘I’m not an active person on social media, really. I always get nervous tweeting anything. The moment I tweet, I get this plummeting sense of regret. I delete roughly 95 percent of my tweets immediately.’ – Charlotte Ritchie

‘When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn’t carry on with it, which I regret.’ – Emilia Fox

‘Believe me – I’ve done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don’t regret the crazy stuff.’ – Jean-Claude Van Damme

‘I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I – but it’s a mistake I can’t regret, because it’s like saying, ‘I shouldn’t have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.” – Orson Welles

‘The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I’d make all the same mistakes – only sooner.’ – Tallulah Bankhead

‘Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘There’s no regret. You can’t regret. I mean, I’ve felt regret but I’ve also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don’t believe it. You feel it, it’s like guilt, it’s like jealousy, it’s like all those horrible things. You’ve just got to snip them and get them out, because they’re no good.’ – Jude Law

‘I haven’t got the yacht any more. The cost of running it was crazy. But it was so much fun while I had it. I don’t regret it.’ – Jenson Button

‘Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was 26. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don’t take it off until you’re 34.’ – Nora Ephron

‘I never regret what I do. I’m very proud of every work I have done.’ – Kunal Khemu

‘When I believed in astrology and numerology, people made fun of me, but today there are so many channels just dedicated to astrology and numerology. I now regret that I didn’t start a channel on this. But then, I am happy in life. I don’t dwell upon it.’ – Govinda

‘I was a slow starter. I didn’t really make any dazzling impressions. But I don’t really regret that because I learned a lot along the way. I always kept busy – I found my way my way, and I’m happy about it.’ – Christopher Lloyd

‘I never regret being honest.’ – Simon Amstell

‘The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.’ – Neil Armstrong

‘I don’t regret anything, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t look back and think, ‘What was I thinking?” – David Beckham

‘Regret leads to negativity, and negativity kills creativity.’ – Carol Channing

‘One of my biggest regrets ever was not taking the time to go to South Africa to meet Nelson Mandela. That is a big regret of mine. I should have figured out a way.’ – Charles Barkley

‘I never regret making a decision.’ – Emmanuel Adebayor

‘I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.’ – Alice Munro

‘When we grow old, there can only be one regret – not to have given enough of ourselves.’ – Eleonora Duse

‘I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I’d be a lousy businessman, and if I didn’t give acting a try I’d regret it for the rest of my life.’ – Peter Gallagher

‘My biggest regret is not spending more time reading when I was a teenager. My entire focus was on having fun and flirting with danger, hanging around with the kids with criminal records.’ – Richard Bacon

‘I’m not trying to regret nothing in my career.’ – Young Dolph

‘I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don’t regret them at all, because I’ve learnt from them.’ – Lindsay Lohan

‘I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.’ – Zola Budd

‘I wore a ‘Black Metal’ Venom T-shirt once, in January 1993, to promote black metal, and I regret having done that ever since.’ – Varg Vikernes

‘Regret is a waste of time and energy and doesn’t do a thing for me.’ – Inbar Lavi

‘My biggest regret in life is that I didn’t hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.’ – Denis Leary

‘Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.’ – Norman Borlaug

‘I’m always doing things I feel like I should do. But avoiding regret does not mean you are pursuing what you want.’ – Pokimane

‘I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how smart and strong and loving and caring she was. And I really hoped that her choosing me and rejecting my advice to pursue her own career was a decision she would never regret.’ – William J. Clinton

‘If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.’ – Bram Fischer

‘I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.’ – Ty Cobb

‘I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness – and some happiness, if you’re lucky.’ – Kim Cattrall

‘Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.’ – Jonathan Larson

‘I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.’ – Nas

‘I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.’ – Tom Brady

‘People do dollar cost averaging because they have regret of making one big mistake. But the fact of the matter is that, mathematically, the market rises more of the time than it falls. It falls, but it rises more of the time than it falls.’ – Kenneth Fisher

‘I don’t regret anything I’ve put out there.’ – Colleen Ballinger

‘I never regret anything.’ – Michael Sorrentino

‘I went through college while working a full-time manual-labor job, and I don’t regret a minute of it; it was a great learning experience.’ – Phyllis Schlafly

‘I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.’ – Kelly Corrigan

‘I think that Republicans are going to deeply, fundamentally, and profoundly regret the way that they have – the way Trump has – framed the party with Hispanics.’ – Rick Wilson

‘When I’m feeling down on myself or not feeling good about who I am, or maybe something happened and I’m feeling depressed, I eat to fill that void. Afterwards I’ll beat myself up about it. I regret doing it, but I’ll turn around and do it again.’ – Janet Jackson

‘A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.’ – Kenko Yoshida

‘I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they’re prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them.’ – Channing Tatum

‘Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one.’ – Theodor Herzl

‘I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.’ – Tina Turner

‘My first film ‘Saawariya’ was a flop; I don’t regret it.’ – Ranbir Kapoor

‘I live in the present because the past is regret, and the future is anxiety.’ – Patrice Evra

‘I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn’t change any of them.’ – Alanis Morissette

‘If you want to invest in us, we believe customer number one, employee number two, shareholder number three. If they don’t want to buy that, that’s fine. If they regret, they can sell us.’ – Jack Ma

‘When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won’t end up in a situation that you regret later on.’ – Danica McKellar

‘We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer

‘I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don’t generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I’m starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.’ – Gillian Anderson

‘Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.’ – Charles Dudley Warner

‘I promise you that the time will come, if you have tattoos, that you will regret your actions. They cannot be washed off. They are permanent. Only by an expensive and painful process can they be removed. If you are tattooed, then probably for the remainder of your life you will carry it with you.’ – Gordon B. Hinckley

‘I regret not learning to drive when I was younger.’ – Michelle Dockery

‘I realized that, after tasting entrepreneurship, I had become unfit for the corporate world. There was no turning back. The only regret I had was having wasted my life in the corporate world for so long.’ – Vivek Wadhwa

‘I regret nothing. Even if I had a second chance at life, it would be the exact same.’ – Jackson Wang

‘I don’t have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might’ve unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.’ – Jimi Hendrix

‘When you get older, it’s not about what you did that you regret, it’s what you didn’t do.’ – Grace Slick

‘The ‘crownd’ is still the unit, the favourite coin of the labourers, especially the elder folk. They use the word something in the same sense as the dollar, and look with regret upon the gradual disappearance of the broad silver disc with the figure of ‘St. Gaarge’ conquering the dragon.’ – Richard Jefferies

‘I do not regret working with Rupert Murdoch. But there is a nasty undertone to a lot of what he does which does not exist with the Barclays.’ – Andrew Neil

‘One of the many things that I learnt from my mother is to never regret.’ – Shriya Saran

‘I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.’ – Andrew Jackson

‘My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.’ – Truman Capote

‘I have tons of regrets, but I think that’s one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.’ – Sylvester Stallone

‘I could never say that I regret being given the gift of experience and love.’ – August Alsina

‘Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a cool nickname will regret it by getting just the opposite from his astronaut friends.’ – Michael J. Massimino

‘Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?’ – George Sand

‘Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.’ – Fulton Oursler

‘I know there’s an impression that I’m someone who seeks to have violent confrontations with people. I don’t. Do I regret screaming at some guy who practically clipped my kid in the head with the lens of a camera? Yeah, I probably do, because it’s only caused me problems.’ – Alec Baldwin

‘I don’t regret things, because I learn from mistakes. If needs be, I always make amends.’ – Marc Warren

‘I’m not big on regret; I don’t spend a lot of time on it.’ – Joss Whedon

‘I don’t have regret about things I’ve done that are successful or not successful or what people perceive or don’t know or whatever. I just know for me it had to be the right choice at the time. Sometimes that choice is just about getting a job.’ – Mark Harmon

‘I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world’s greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.’ – Thomas Bowdler

‘I was bullied at school, and I let that get hold of me and withdrew into myself – I regret letting that happen.’ – Suranne Jones

‘I regret that I had to leave my country. But I had to do it in order to achieve and decide my own fate. I was forced into it. Democracy came about 15 years too late for me. But I have to say that it’s there now, and Czech Republic is a fantastic country; it always was but just had the wrong regime at the top.’ – Martina Navratilova

‘Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.’ – Don Miguel Ruiz

‘The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.’ – Henri Frederic Amiel

‘Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.’ – Jean Rostand

‘I honestly regret that I haven’t done much work in Telugu, but work kept coming in from the other industries and I couldn’t turn those offers down.’ – Suman Ranganathan

‘How can you regret helping a suffering patient?’ – Jack Kevorkian

‘I don’t think we’re all going to be mediums but I do think we all have a sixth sense in that we have an intuition. I think our intuition is something that we all have the ability to tap into and we often regret when we don’t follow it.’ – Tyler Henry

‘I think the last thing you want in life is to live with regret.’ – Rob Halford

‘It’s important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren’t the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it’d be wrong to think that they’re automatically bad.’ – James Gleick

‘Formerly well-respected news organizations and experienced national journalists are making the sorts of mistakes that aren’t tolerated in journalism schools. When their mistakes are corrected at all, it’s with little seeming regret.’ – Sharyl Attkisson

‘I wouldn’t call Loopt a failure. It didn’t turn out like I wanted, for sure, but it was fun, I learned a lot, and I made enough money to start investing, which led me to my current job. I don’t regret it at all.’ – Sam Altman

‘I was with the former president for over 54 years. I don’t regret that; I feel very proud. It was necessary. It is history. Each step where we worked together was a privilege, and in terms of history, that was necessary.’ – Emmerson Mnangagwa

‘When you go into a game, and there’s something that was drawn up the way it was supposed to be drawn up, and you missed the throw or the catch, as a receiver, it’s something where you feel bad about that. You can always regret just missing it, but as a football player, you have to move on to the next play.’ – Patrick Mahomes

‘My fear of coming out wasn’t about rejection. I was scared people would say: ‘Why were you lying to me? If you’ve been lying about that what else are you lying about?’ Lying is my biggest regret.’ – Gareth Thomas

‘Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.’ – Chief Seattle

‘There are endorsements I regret taking when I was younger and didn’t know any better. But I didn’t have options then. People weren’t knocking on my door.’ – Tony Hawk

‘My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the ‘New York Times’ Building.’ – Ann Coulter

‘Most people don’t know that the biggest regret that I have – and it’s a biggie – is not fighting harder for policy and very practical measures to support the development of the green jobs industry.’ – Majora Carter

‘I just don’t regret anything I’ve gone through or anything I have been through with my mum and dad, I’m just proud of who I am.’ – Joe Wicks

‘You’re never going to regret working out or being active. You might regret not doing it, you might regret pressing that snooze button, but you’ll never regret getting physically active.’ – Tessa Virtue

‘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.’ – Marc Maron

‘I try to be happy. I try to face things without regret or make sure that I’m happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can.’ – Hozier

‘He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.’ – Douglas Reed

‘I had a fantastic time at Birmingham and I never regret anything that happened there.’ – Jack Butland

‘It was complicated at Madrid. I was suspicious. The lack of recognition for Makelele over there scared me. I was scared it would happen to me. But I should have gone there. Today, I don’t regret the career that I have had, but if I could have changed one thing, it would be that: to go to Madrid.’ – Patrick Vieira

‘It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.’ – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

‘Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it’s a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘The desire to get married, which – I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women – is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge – which is to be single again.’ – Nora Ephron

‘Football spectators appreciate a bit of loyalty, and we’re seeing that less and less. There are echelons of football, as in society, where some players are clearly mercenaries. I regret in a way that somehow the local identification, the local bonding between the community and its football team has been commercialised to such an extent.’ – Vincent Nichols

‘I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.’ – James Madison

‘I’m not a regret guy.’ – Peter Jackson

‘I never regret or sit back and think that I shouldn’t have said something. There are a lot of people who tell me that you shouldn’t say this or that or should keep quiet, and I really think that I can either be true to my conscience or can live a fake life by staying quiet.’ – Taapsee Pannu

‘I have always believed it is not enough just to wear the silver fern and I do not regret pushing myself to try to deliver my best possible performance.’ – Laurel Hubbard

‘Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.’ – Carrie Fisher

‘Regret’s kind of like a fool’s game.’ – Willam Belli

‘It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘A significant regret is that I was not as good a father as I would have ideally liked to be. I was not, I think, a bad father.’ – M. Scott Peck

‘I had no regret to the ‘cuchi-cuchi’ show. It showed me the way to the bank. It’s a gimmick. It’s fun. It has nothing to do with sex… it’s energy and fun… If it wasn’t for ‘cuchi-cuchi,’ I would be selling tomatoes in Tijuana.’ – Charo

‘There is nothing I’ve been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened – personally and professionally – I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.’ – Sheryl Swoopes

‘I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.’ – Nancy Pelosi

‘The only thing I regret in life is that I didn’t practice basketball more.’ – Watkin Tudor Jones

‘I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during ‘Captain Blood.’ I thought he was absolutely smashing for three solid years, but he never guessed. Then he had one on me but nothing came of it. I’m not going to regret that; it could have ruined my life.’ – Olivia De Havilland

‘I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn’t I become an actress? or Why did I just go paddling along after John? I’ve always walked along right by his side, and he’s always supported everything I do.’ – June Carter Cash

‘I was always passionate about the Miss India pageant. Though I was a medical student, I never had a plan B. I dont want to regret anything in life, so it was really important for me to win this competition.’ – Manushi Chhillar

‘I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal faith of our president, Mr. Obama.’ – Franklin Graham

‘I feel this pang of regret whenever I watch sport; this sense that I will never play a big match again.’ – David Beckham

‘People always ask me, ‘What is it that you regret?’ And I say, ‘nothing, because I could not buy what I’ve learned.’ And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.’ – Katy Perry

‘I don’t regret leaving Bayern Munich. I am convinced it was the correct step for me.’ – Emre Can

‘The world’s pretty big. I have to see everything, do everything, eat everything. You’ll never be as young as you are right now, so while your legs still work, while you still have the breath in your lungs, go. At the end of our lives, we only regret the things we didn’t do.’ – Philip Rosenthal

‘If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.’ – Tennessee Williams

‘The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.’ – William Hazlitt

‘I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.’ – Andrew Jackson

‘My biggest regret is rolling in regret. It is best to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and move on.’ – Andie MacDowell

‘I’m disappointed that I really haven’t been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don’t regret giving this a go.’ – Ian Thorpe

‘I can’t take it back. I can’t take anything back. So I don’t regret it.’ – Allen Iverson

‘We know that we’ve done and said things that hurt people. Inflicting pain on others wasn’t the goal, but it was one of the outcomes. We wish it weren’t so, and regret that hurt.’ – Megan Phelps-Roper

‘When something goes wrong in your life, it doesn’t finish you, and you should become braver, knowing that you’ve got to go for things in life and don’t regret because you didn’t try to be as good as you might be.’ – Gareth Southgate

‘I don’t have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.’ – John Major

‘I think I don’t regret a single ‘excess’ of my responsive youth – I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.’ – Henry James

‘Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘It’s the failure of my debut film which made me an actor, which made me want to succeed in the industry. But that doesn’t mean I regret whatever choices I’ve made over the years. No, not even ‘Kaiyethum Doorathu!” – Fahadh Faasil

‘To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.’ – Adolf Eichmann

‘The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.’ – Ogden Nash

‘It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn’t keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don’t regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don’t want to go into!’ – Agnetha Faltskog

‘I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.’ – Lucille Ball

‘Later in my life, I’m going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don’t give it my all right now I’ll regret it later. That’s very important to me, because I’ve worked all my life to have this.’ – Shania Twain

‘Anyone who doesn’t regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.’ – Vladimir Putin

‘Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.’ – Mary McCarthy

‘One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.’ – Jean Cocteau

‘The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.’ – Barbara Ehrenreich

‘I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.’ – Chuck Schumer

‘Very few movies I’ve done I regret being involved in.’ – Jared Harris

‘My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.’ – Conrad Veidt

‘Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?’ – Letitia Elizabeth Landon

‘I don’t really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn’t want a different life.’ – Molly Ringwald

‘We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration.’ – John Negroponte

‘Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.’ – John Major

‘I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.’ – John Major

‘The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.’ – Sun Myung Moon

‘Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.’ – William Henry Hudson

‘Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.’ – Louis Farrakhan

‘My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they’ve been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.’ – Jonathan Coe

‘The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I’m going to regret it.’ – Scott Caan

‘There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That’s not what the American people want to hear.’ – Frank Luntz

‘My biggest regret is that I didn’t teach my two children how to speak Spanish.’ – Henry Darrow

‘It’s not like he called me up and asked me. They’ve never wanted to throw us into that world, and I think our decision probably shocked them. But I love my dad, and I think I’d regret it if I didn’t do this.’ – Jenna Bush

‘One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities.’ – Fred F. Fielding

‘I very much regret that our administration has pushed the whole issue of Kosovo to the back burner.’ – Eliot Engel

‘My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.’ – Richard E. Grant

‘So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can’t help it.’ – Kathy Griffin

‘But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views.’ – Stephen Cohen

‘My part had three lines. I said, ‘You look wonderful, sir,’ three times. All my friends said, ‘Do not take that role – and do not understudy. You’ll regret it the rest of your life.’ I did both of those things, and I’ve never regretted it once.’ – Jeffrey Tambor

‘People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.’ – Marcel Dionne

‘If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don’t throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.’ – Cliff Richard

‘Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.’ – David Talbot

‘Of course I do not regret the Bond days, I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent.’ – Roger Moore

‘I do not have time to sit down and regret anything although sometimes I wish I had been able to see more of my parents while they were alive and have done more for them.’ – Roger Moore

‘Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They’re making a mistake.’ – Al D’Amato

‘Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.’ – Marvin Olasky

‘No, I don’t regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don’t regret anything.’ – William Shatner

‘I have a beautiful son, I don’t regret it, I’m very proud of the way that we handle our relationship and the way that we keep our son first and that’s our priority.’ – Nia Long

‘I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.’ – Maggie Gallagher

‘It’s commonly said that people who’ve been ill in childhood and who’ve had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don’t look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that’s a help.’ – John Keegan

‘I do think it’s important to live in the present because in that way you won’t be living in a state of regret.’ – Francesca Annis

‘I’m often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I’m glad I didn’t go, because if I had I wouldn’t have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.’ – Francesca Annis

‘Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I’ve always felt about that decision – it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.’ – David Knopfler

‘I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don’t look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever.’ – Corin Nemec

‘I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.’ – Benjamin F. Wade

‘So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can’t be controlled.’ – Daniel Greenberg

‘I did Polyester, and I don’t regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.’ – Tab Hunter

‘Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don’t regret any decisions I have made.’ – Kiana Tom

‘We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don’t regret he played for that period.’ – David Gill

‘But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.’ – Robert Falcon Scott

‘I shall have less cause to regret the carrying my intended purpose into effect, foreseeing that you may immediately fill with advantage, the vacancy which will presently happen.’ – Henry Laurens

‘My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it.’ – Jacques Delors

‘Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released – to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.’ – Laurence Housman

‘I do not regret one moment of my life.’ – Lillie Langtry

‘I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I’m very lucky.’ – Jeanne Calment

‘Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn’t live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.’ – Ethel Waters

‘Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don’t regret.’ – Ethel Merman

‘My only regret in life is that I didn’t spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.’ – Perry Como

‘We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed.’ – Bernard Ebbers

‘It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.’ – Henry Addington

‘Well, if you’re talking about the current climate, there’s a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don’t regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.’ – Neil Jordan

‘As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I’m not going to say what they were.’ – Julie Christie

‘I regret that I wasn’t the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.’ – Julie Christie

‘Consequently, I won just about everything I set out to win, everything bar the World Cup, of course. But even now, I don’t regret that, because I was part of a team which twice reached the semi-finals.’ – Michel Patini

‘The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn’t be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don’t regret it.’ – Kim Wilde

‘With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn’t use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.’ – Bernhard Goetz

‘That’s why I ended up leaving school – because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.’ – Shawn Fanning

‘I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.’ – Leslie Caron

‘American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.’ – Herbert Croly

‘But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison – two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.’ – Jeffrey Archer

‘When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It’s only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it.’ – Margo MacDonald

‘That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today.’ – David Blunkett

‘It’s my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It’s the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn’t have used it.’ – Brian Mulroney

‘I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.’ – Catherine Deneuve

‘I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.’ – Robert Toombs

‘Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.’ – Cordell Hull

‘I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.’ – Keren Ann

‘Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined – how is it that this safe return brings such regret?’ – Peter Matthiessen

‘You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I’m more cautious. I’m proud that I was able to do what I did – psychologically it was a great wall to climb – but sometimes I regret it.’ – Mathias Rust

‘I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism.’ – Mathias Rust

‘I was a complete loon, but I don’t regret a bit of it.’ – Rhona Mitra

‘I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions.’ – Anita Hill

‘I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.’ – Jamie Lee Curtis

‘As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.’ – Stephen Fry

‘I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.’ – Gillian Anderson

‘Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.’ – Marguerite Gardiner

‘People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They’re not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There’s just regret.’ – Laurie Anderson

‘Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.’ – Emile Zola

‘I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.’ – Bobby Knight

‘I don’t regret any decisions I’ve made in my life.’ – Gladys Knight

‘I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.’ – Bette Davis

‘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.’ – Wilhelm von Humboldt

‘I don’t regret anything I ever do or say. I don’t like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you’re honest.’ – Eva Longoria

‘Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.’ – Jack Abramoff

‘My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don’t make that mistake yourself. Life’s too damn short.’ – Armistead Maupin

‘In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.’ – Karl Rove

‘The effort required by your endeavor now is not as hard as dealing with your regret later.’ – Mike Hawkins

‘I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it.’ – Anthony Weiner

‘I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn’t wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades.’ – John Grisham

‘I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I’ve thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I’m just leaving them.’ – Andre Benjamin

‘All I know is, I was trying to win the football game. And the bottom line is, you have to do what you think is right. You have to go with your gut. And if you don’t do that, then I think you regret a lot of things later on.’ – Mike Singletary

‘I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault.’ – Scott Baio

‘Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in ‘Top Gun’ and I turned it down.’ – Scott Baio

‘I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.’ – Brian Bosworth

‘I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.’ – Andrew Fastow

‘There’s not a second I regret having a child on my own.’ – Bridget Moynahan

‘The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He’s now remarried so there’s no chance of us getting back together.’ – Carol Vorderman

”None of Your Business.’ It’s the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret.’ – Cheryl James

‘When I get a fringe, it’s because I’m bored or need a change; I always regret it!’ – Chloe Sevigny

‘It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.’ – Jonathan Carroll

‘My greatest regret is selling my company.’ – Vidal Sassoon

‘I really didn’t feed off the whole Olympic experience at all, and I regret that from an athletic perspective, and also from a personal experience. I feel like I missed out, so I’m not going to do that this time.’ – Ryan Hall

‘I’m trying to make myself better. But I don’t regret anything that I’ve gone through, because it makes me who I am.’ – Nick Carter

‘I don’t believe in regret.’ – Ricky Williams

‘I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don’t know what the alternative would have been.’ – Juliet Stevenson

‘I was up for Michael Corleone in ‘The Godfather,’ but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think Mr. Coppola made the right choice. The Julia Roberts role in ‘Pretty Woman’ held a bizarre allure for me. But, it’s silly to look back with regret.’ – Eric Stoltz

‘I don’t keep it secret that I live with my partner Gio. I’m very proud of my gayness. But there is lots I wouldn’t want the press to write about me… it is a matter of regret that being gay is the most interesting thing about me.’ – Evan Davis

‘But at the same time, I don’t let myself regret things to the point that I’m paralyzed.’ – Moby

‘I do regret, as I described in my book, the time that I shaved off half of my eyebrows thinking that I could draw them in better – and they would grow back anyway.’ – Molly Ringwald

‘The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.’ – Tony Parsons

‘The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn’t change the name of our country.’ – Imelda Marcos

‘Every comedian dreams of hosting ‘The Tonight Show’ and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.’ – Conan O’Brien

‘My ex-wife, she really didn’t like the material that I did. And that’s something I regret, that I wasn’t more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn’t ask. So that’s how that goes.’ – Louis C. K.

‘I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don’t regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can’t have it all.’ – Lauren Bacall

‘I regret that I wasn’t more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.’ – Ted Turner

‘I don’t regret setting bombs.’ – Bill Ayers

‘While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.’ – Kevin Shelley

‘With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I’ve come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.’ – J. K. Rowling

‘Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.’ – Aung San Suu Kyi

‘I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.’ – Tiger Woods

‘I regret nothing.’ – Brigitte Bardot

‘I don’t regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life’s full.’ – Francesca Annis

‘I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.’ – Tippi Hedren

‘One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that’s even possible, interested me.’ – Ian Mcewan

‘If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.’ – Jack Ma

‘By definition, an actor’s life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I’ve lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.’ – Elizabeth McGovern

‘I’m never afraid to try something if I think it’s funny. And I know I’ll regret it if I don’t.’ – Seann William Scott

‘Oh, I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly. But that’s just part of the deal. I’m not really sure what’s going to come out of my mouth.’ – Kathy Griffin

‘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.’ – Evan Davis

‘I truly don’t believe in regret.’ – Bethenny Frankel

‘My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets – Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.’ – Jennie Garth

‘I don’t regret anything I’ve gone through.’ – Jessica Simpson

‘I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.’ – Dominic Cooper

‘I don’t really regret anything in my life.’ – Kristin Cavallari

‘Often, the roles I’m offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.’ – Kristin Scott Thomas

”Emeril’ came on the air right when a new president of NBC was taking over, and there was just a big shift going on. And then 9/11 happened, and that really pretty much killed it, because the show was already having a hard time finding an audience. I don’t regret it. I had a really good time.’ – Carrie Preston

‘I’ve always been pleased with the investments I’ve made with my friend Albert Frere and I regret not having followed him more, because I would have been a lot richer.’ – Bernard Arnault

‘It’s not something that’s at the forefront of my mind, but I think I’d regret it if I didn’t have children.’ – Brendan Coyle

‘Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I’ve become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn’t streamed into science, and I regret that now.’ – John Noble

‘Sometimes I make very selfish choices; like I did ‘Once Upon A Time’ for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I’ve done some movies because I would regret them if I didn’t, but other projects I’ve done because they’ve scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.’ – Ginnifer Goodwin

‘I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don’t regret anything about that – on the contrary!’ – Henning Mankell

‘I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in ‘The Leopard,’ in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. ‘Phantom’ has less blood.’ – Jo Nesbo

‘I regret the times I’ve been mean to people… It’s fine to pick on people who can defend themselves and deserve it. Some people don’t deserve to be picked on who I picked on, so I don’t do it anymore.’ – Don Imus

‘It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered.’ – Paul Davies

‘Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.’ – Britt Ekland

‘I don’t like the word ‘regret.” – LeAnn Rimes

‘I’ve made a lot of mistakes and I don’t regret any of them. Sometimes that’s the only way you learn.’ – Nick Nolte

‘I used to suffer from a lot of regret while touring. Regret at having to leave certain places, people and situations, or just a beautiful day.’ – Kiri Te Kanawa

‘My only regret is the media’s obsession with the past.’ – Ken Livingstone

‘I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.’ – Ayelet Waldman

‘My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don’t regret anything I’ve done.’ – Jake Pavelka

‘My main regret about my years in football was keeping my mouth shut like a little mouse, not daring to speak out because I was told you left the managers to get on with the job and that the chairman must never interfere with the manager’s decisions or the performance of his team.’ – Alan Sugar

‘I never regret things. It’s a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It’s not a comfortable truth, but it is true.’ – Antony Sher

‘I worked my butt off in high school and received a lot of scholarships for college and to throw all that away for acting was tough for my family, but it was just something I felt my heart pulling me towards and don’t regret a single minute of it. I love to act!’ – Kellan Lutz

‘The great regret of my life is that I didn’t have children.’ – Charlie Rose

‘Was I the best husband? No. And I regret it.’ – Stuart Rose

‘I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.’ – Dita Von Teese

‘I don’t regret either of my marriages – not for a minute.’ – Alana Stewart

‘Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn’t work out how I hoped, oh well – there’s another notch on my experience belt.’ – Isaac Marion

‘Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.’ – Hilary Mantel

‘Sometimes I wish I never found the Internet. Sometimes I regret getting a laptop and Wi-Fi for logging into the Internet because it is such a distraction. If you have any addictive personality, the Internet will magnify it.’ – Lupe Fiasco

‘I don’t regret anything.’ – Brian McDermott

‘I think, from every actor I’ve ever spoken to, they say the biggest thing they regret from life is not finishing school.’ – Tom Holland

‘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.’ – Daley Thompson

‘I was a waitress for nine years, which I don’t regret at all. It taught me about discipline. I was always writing; it took a long time to make a career of it.’ – Eve Ensler

‘I became a Christian late, in my late 30s, so I had a lot of things that I was bringing into my Christian life that I regret. And I had a lot of questions about faith, so that’s where I start when I write.’ – Francine Rivers

‘Selling Atari when I did – I think that’s my biggest regret. And I probably should have gotten back heavily into the games business in the late Eighties. But I was operating under this theory at the time that the way to have an interesting life was to reinvent yourself every five or six years.’ – Nolan Bushnell

‘I deeply regret that those with the authority and responsibility to deal appropriately with Brendan Smyth failed to do so, with tragic and painful consequences for those children he so cruelly abused.’ – Sean Brady

‘I’m really quite conscious of clothes and the way they fit and don’t regret wearing anything. Not even the five-inch stack heels I wore with three-button high-waisters at comprehensive school. Regret is for wimps.’ – Kevin McCloud

‘Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don’t you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls – some as long ago as the Seventies.’ – Lynne Truss

‘I don’t regret any past. I am not there. I am not sorry not to make pictures, because I know one day I will do it. I intend to live 150 years.’ – Alejandro Jodorowsky

‘One of the things I regret is that too often in our society a person’s whole identity is shaped by their sexuality, or by their sexual orientation. In good Catholic eyes, a person’s sexual orientation does not matter.’ – Vincent Nichols

‘I don’t really believe in regret or mistakes. I try to take everything as it is, be comfortable with myself.’ – Analeigh Tipton

‘Don’t wear excessive make-up as you grow older. Young women can wear whatever make-up they want, but if you are older, you will regret it.’ – Carolina Herrera

‘I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.’ – Will Ferrell

‘The biggest regret I have about ‘Rubicon’ is that we didn’t end it. Sometimes you do these shows and you don’t have the opportunity to get closure. Stories are supposed to have a beginning, middle and an end.’ – James Badge Dale

‘I think it’s a mistake to work on success in career. I’ve worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.’ – K’naan

‘I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me ‘a coffee’ they tend to regret it – I’m worse than Mariah Carey, and the hot milk rider is completely non-negotiable.’ – Rachel Johnson

‘Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there’s no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.’ – Derek Bok

‘I try not to regret too much. I find that feeling guilty takes up so much of my time already.’ – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

‘I regret the stories we didn’t do – the stories that we knew about and talked about but didn’t have all of, so didn’t publish. The whole idea of Gawker was to remove the barrier between the thought and the talk – and the page.’ – Nick Denton

‘You look at the road you could have taken, you know, I just think that’s interesting… I’ve been on a lot of roads and I had to hitchhike on a couple of ’em… I have to be very honest: There’s not an awful lot of regret in my life. I think that, you know, you learn from everything, and then, sometimes, you don’t.’ – Polly Bergen

‘My biggest regret is that my mother didn’t see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.’ – Bruce Forsyth

‘I regret the 1998 – 99 lockout. I regret that we didn’t work harder to educate our players and our owners about what the damage would be. I never can quite come up with the answer on what else we should have done, but I always blame a part of the problem on us and some part on the players.’ – David Stern

‘The only person I have regrets about is Miles Davis. He and I had become good friends after we did a photo shoot, and coincidentally, we kept running into each other at parties and stuff. I regret not having written a hit for Miles Davis.’ – Nile Rodgers

‘I stand by every movie that I did. I don’t regret any decision I made.’ – Mila Kunis

‘Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.’ – Eugene Jarecki

‘My greatest regret as a writer is that I’ve never been able to include as many jokes as I’d like.’ – Robert Harris

‘My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn’t in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.’ – Rachel Cusk

‘That’s the one regret I have in all the years that I’ve played professional sports, that I didn’t win a championship in the N.F.L. And that’s why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.’ – Warren Moon

‘I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.’ – Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

‘I don’t regret any of the musical decisions I have made.’ – Dwight Yoakam

‘I don’t regret anything I do, ever, whether articles I’ve done or things I’ve said. And as far as what’s happened in the past, I wouldn’t take anything back.’ – Eva Longoria

‘I try not to spend too much time with regret, although I wish I’d had more hang time with my dad.’ – Woody Harrelson

‘Who the heck is Donald Trump to fire me? I regret I didn’t tell Donald Trump, ‘You need to fire your barber. I’m sorry. I ain’t feeling you, man. You’re fired! I fire you, Donald Trump.” – Sinbad

‘I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.’ – Bernard Tschumi

‘Does celebrity interest anyone? It’s definitely not appealing to me. I think anyone who’s had any real exposure to it would probably regret ever having even entertained the idea.’ – Casey Affleck

‘If you see something that speaks to you and you can swing it, don’t question. I don’t regret anything that I’ve ever bought, only the things that slipped away.’ – Bryan Batt

‘If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It’s called a lobotomy.’ – Kathryn Schulz

‘I do regret that when I went to college, I didn’t have a liberal arts education. I got a BFA in musical theater, so it was a very directed toward what I was doing. I wish that I had expanded my horizons a little bit.’ – Heather Dubrow

‘I cannot learn creation from other people; I’ve got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not studying – I don’t know about harmonies, or anything, so if I’m composing a song, it’s really hard.’ – Psy

‘I lived in the States from 1996 till 2000. I attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1997. But I wasn’t the most hard-working student. I rarely went to school. At that time, I seriously doubted that you could learn creativity in school. Music isn’t something you can just learn from other people. Sometimes I regret missing classes.’ – Psy

‘Nothing is more frustrating to me than putting a song on an album and regret putting it on there. I’m excited that there are no songs on ‘Tailgates & Tanlines’ that I’m iffy about.’ – Luke Bryan

‘I destroyed all my geek stuff because I didn’t want to be a geek, and I regret it to this day. Consumed in the geek bonfire of the vanities was a collection of autographs and letters from Peter Cushing, Spike Milligan and Frankie Howerd, the first Doctor Whos, actual astronauts, and many more.’ – Peter Capaldi

‘People always tell me I’m going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?’ – Karl Pilkington

‘In terms of relationships, I’ve had two failures, although I don’t like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I’ve always said that I am a much loved woman.’ – Kate del Castillo

‘A well known director wouldn’t take the chance on casting me for an American role after he discovered that I was English. Some time later, he expressed his regret that he hadn’t taken the chance with me.’ – Marsha Thomason

‘I don’t regret giving up football for acting. I love football and am very proud I played for Morton. But the truth is, I wasn’t going to get much higher in football. At the same time, I sensed I could go somewhere in acting. I’m 28, which is young for acting, whereas in football I’d now be near the end of my career.’ – Martin Compston

‘I regret I didn’t ever learn how to fly a plane. I had the opportunity when I started to make some money, and I regret I didn’t really take the time out and put the effort in and do that.’ – Jimmy Cliff

‘I have no regret about making ‘Heroine’; rather, I am happy I made it. I never shun my films; I stick to it.’ – Madhur Bhandarkar

‘I’d love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson’s role in ‘Tin Cup.’ I regret that.’ – Dennis Quaid

‘I became a man in New York. New York made me the musician that I am and the person that I am, so it’s impossible for me to say I regret having lived there.’ – Wynton Marsalis

‘I never learnt Hebrew because my health was fragile, and it was thought that learning Hebrew would be an added burden. I regret it, because I would like to be able to join in fully. Not that I am a believer, but I would like to be.’ – Anita Brookner

‘There’s nothing I’ve done that I feel a lot of regret over because I stuck to my guns, even when it got uncomfortable – and it will get uncomfortable because you’re going up against the wall.’ – Shirley Manson

‘I did regret not graduating high school, but I made a point of going back and getting my GED later. It was important for my kids.’ – Christian Slater

‘You learn from things that you experience in life. I’d never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn’t how I have chosen to live my life.’ – Kate Winslet

‘I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly.’ – Kathy Griffin

‘I don’t regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I’ll always be learning – the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise.’ – Caitlin Moran

‘I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.’ – Barbara Walters

‘I have spent more time with other people’s books than with my own. I do not regret it.’ – Italo Calvino

‘I don’t regret the decision to retire. My body was losing its edge. I was taking longer to recover from injuries. You have to get out at some point.’ – David Beckham

‘I think people assume I’m perfect. I’m not. I make mistakes. I do things I regret. I’m stubborn.’ – Hilary Duff

‘Unrestrained competition can drive people into actions that they would otherwise regret.’ – George Soros

‘I don’t have regrets I didn’t spend more time with my family because I’ve lived my life to the full, and you can’t look back in regret.’ – Lech Walesa

‘For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that characteristically human guilt and regret about what might have been in the past. But that may be the cost for our ability to hope and plan for what might be in the future.’ – Alison Gopnik

‘I don’t think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.’ – Tao Lin

‘I don’t regret doing ‘The Living Daylights’. If I hadn’t done Bond, I wouldn’t have been in America doing my series, and I would have had a different life.’ – Maryam D’Abo

‘One of the things I regret is that magazines now are so lifestyle-orientated that the opportunity to do bigger projects is gone. This is a serious misjudgment on the part of magazine editors.’ – Martin Parr

‘Childfree women are actually great assets to the planet. Our carbon footprint is smaller than a mom’s! And we have enough money to write checks to organizations that help kids get vaccinations, vitamins, and educations yet have plenty of free time to advise your daughter that one day she will regret piercing her lip.’ – Jen Kirkman

‘I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don’t regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.’ – Patrick Stump

‘I don’t believe in regret.’ – Sadie Jones

‘I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won’t ask for me, and I will regret it.’ – Carine Roitfeld

‘I don’t regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.’ – Randeep Hooda

‘A nation that turns it back on Christ and God’s words of truth will inevitably regret it.’ – Monica Johnson

‘In doing my podcast, I do find that I tend to try out bits that I then try on stage later that day. If they work, great, and if they don’t, I regret having talked about it on the podcast.’ – Kurt Braunohler

‘I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.’ – F. Sionil Jose

‘I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I’m working on. And though I’ll probably regret saying this, I think some songs actually don’t sound too bad when they’re played through lousy speakers.’ – Rosecrans Baldwin

‘I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done. I only wish I could have done more.’ – Mickey Rooney

‘When I have a difficult decision to make, I imagine myself as a 90-year-old guy looking back on his life. I imagine what I’ll think about myself at that point in time, and it always makes it really easy to go for it. You’re only going to regret that you wimped out.’ – Nick Woodman

‘Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.’ – Bahman Ghobadi

‘I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.’ – Alice Walker

‘My biggest regret is that I’ve assisted the media in making me into a cartoon character. I don’t regret what has happened to me, but I regret the way I have dealt with it.’ – Megan Fox

‘In the past, I’ve been reluctant to share any bits of truth about myself or to really let people in on my reality. So I have said some things to throw people off the scent of what’s really going on in my life. So I have sort of aided the media in printing these misconceptions, which I regret.’ – Megan Fox

‘I regret everything. But so what? At least I have cause.’ – Sebastian Horsley

‘The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.’ – Kris Kristofferson

‘My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don’t know why that is, but to me, that’s country music.’ – Blake Shelton

‘Live riotously lest not you regret the minutes, moments, hours and days of time gone by.’ – Maximillian Degenerez

‘I don’t talk about my past; people ask me about it. I’ve done things I’m ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I’ve done that I regret, I’ve never done twice. I work really hard at that.’ – Art Alexakis

‘I’ll teach my kids right from wrong, but I’m never going to teach them that they can’t have fun. They’ll make mistakes; they’ll do things they regret, like we all have.’ – Louise Nurding

‘Everything I did and continue to do happens for a reason, and honestly, I don’t regret much in my life.’ – Jaime Pressly

‘As borrowers, we may feel guilty about running up debt, anxious about making payments, and resentful of the constraints that old obligations (and old credit records) impose on our current choices. We may find it too easy to buy things we may later regret.’ – Virginia Postrel

‘The consequences of ignoring the Lord and His prophets are certain and often accompanied by great sorrow and regret.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘I definitely regret the surgeries that I have had over the years, I think I was so young and in such an unstable situation in my life with so much going on and so much pressure.’ – Heidi Montag

‘I regret things all the time. I’ve never regretted not saying something. I’ve only regretted saying something.’ – Chrissy Teigen

‘Family life is tough, I’ll say that for it. But in my case, I’ve mined the family. In a sense, I’ve used it. I’ve used what happened – the different events, the births of children, birthdays. Connecting, not connecting. Regret, shame, guilt. I mean, they’re all in the songs. And love, too, I hasten to add.’ – Loudon Wainwright III

‘Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved – and I still regret it.’ – Claire Tomalin

‘The reason I haven’t got an agent is so that no one can contact me to offer me a film part. In case I’m tempted to do something I’ll regret later.’ – Jaye Davidson

‘I actually don’t have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.’ – Dan Jenkins

‘The characters are not allowed to change if you write a sitcom; they’re not allowed to learn anything. There’s all these sorts of rules, and you go, ‘I just want to be able to write one character and then leave that behind.’ Also, as a performer, and I may regret saying this, but it would be my own personal hell to be trapped in the sitcom.’ – Alice Lowe

‘Sometimes I regret waiting so long to have a child, but I don’t make the rules. The universe decided it was going to take me a while to get to be a mom!’ – Constance Marie

‘In ‘D.A.R.Y.L.’ there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn’t even use it. It can get kind of frustrating. But I don’t regret that I decided to become an actor. Besides, if I don’t like it at any time, I can stop.’ – Barret Oliver

‘My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.’ – Malcolm Gladwell

‘The real boss in the family is my wife. She didn’t want me hanging around the house all day and said, ‘You don’t want to retire; you’ll regret it.’ So I listened to her.’ – Bill Gross

‘I’ve done some stinkers in the cinema. You can’t regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it’s just the location.’ – John Hurt

‘I don’t go around thinking about regret; regret doesn’t consume me as a person… I’m not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don’t think perhaps it’s even particularly Southern.’ – Barry Hannah

‘To be honest, and I may regret saying this, the idea of playing the same character for a very long time is very daunting to me.’ – Lucy Punch

‘I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people – immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just failed. I look back and sometimes cringe. But one regret as I get older is that I haven’t been radical and wild enough.’ – Michael Leunig

‘You only get so much time to do something that you enjoy or love to do. If you can continue doing it, you might as well, because I don’t want to live in regret. I don’t want to be the person sitting behind a desk, wondering, ‘Did I do it right, did I finish it off, did I really give it my all?” – Troy Dumais

‘My greatest regret at the passing of America-hating strongman Hugo Chavez is that he didn’t live long enough to party with Dennis Rodman.’ – Rob Lowe

‘There’s no question that I’ve done wrong. I take full responsibility for having done wrong. I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that I’ve caused to others. But I did not break the law.’ – John Edwards

‘Don’t regret your mistakes. You’ll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.’ – James Altucher

‘In leaving New York in 1957, I did leave without regret the literary demimonde of agents and would-be’s and with-it nonparticipants; this world seemed unnutritious and interfering.’ – John Updike

‘I didn’t call for a ballot at the start of the miners’ strike in 1984. I’ll regret that until my dying day.’ – Neil Kinnock

‘You can get stuck in the trap of reading your YouTube comments all the time. Sometimes I regret it. Not everyone is going to love you. And for some reason, stand-up has this thing where everyone thinks they can do it. So everyone thinks they’re an expert.’ – Kumail Nanjiani

‘I think I do regret leaving Kentucky because I took over a team with 15 wins banking everything on the Tim Duncan lottery, and once we didn’t get Tim Duncan, I realized that leaving Kentucky was not a good move.’ – Rick Pitino

‘If I had one regret in life… it’s that I was not more humble at an earlier age.’ – Rick Pitino

‘There are things you’re supposed to learn in life. My biggest regret was terminating a pregnancy when I was about 18. Every day, I think about who that baby would be now; it still makes me sad.’ – Suzi Quatro

‘My biggest, you know, regret is what happened in Benghazi. It was a terrible tragedy losing four Americans – two diplomats and, now it’s public so I can say, two CIA operatives.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘I’d walked away from ‘Come Dancing’ and gave ‘Blankety Blank’ the elbow when I felt the public had had enough. But I didn’t follow my instinct to escape from ‘Wogan,’ and was persuaded to continue for another two years. I kind of regret that.’ – Terry Wogan

‘I think if they wanted to get me to leave ‘Children in Need,’ they’d have to drag me off screaming. It’s one thing that’s so close to my heart, and I feel passionately about it. I gave up my radio show, with regret, but knowing I’d done it for a long time, the same with Eurovision. But ‘Children in Need’ is different.’ – Terry Wogan

‘I regret not working harder to create true friendships with other couples, not seeking out people with whom to go do things and go places – people with whom to have a few crazy, memorable bonding adventures.’ – Robin Marantz Henig

‘Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies.’ – Robin Marantz Henig

‘Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil thing, and my my mom said, ‘Just don’t. You’ll regret it.” – Cate Blanchett

‘I’ve got my feet on the ground because I’ve got a lovely family waiting for me when I get home, even though they’re not my flesh and blood. I haven’t got children. That’s my only regret, I suppose.’ – Bonnie Tyler

‘I don’t know a single person who doesn’t regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn’t say to them.’ – James Nesbitt

‘If I died tomorrow, I would regret growing so wealthy and still running the business when there are so many more people I could have helped.’ – John Caudwell

‘We would go back and maybe not say that thing to our dad that we said, or maybe be a little nicer to someone who we cared about and had a relationship with when we were young. You know, they’re subtle things, but we carry those with us forever. And I think that regret and time travel are intrinsically linked to me.’ – Colin Trevorrow

‘I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part, I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive.’ – Channing Tatum

‘On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward.’ – Luis Suarez

‘When I say, ‘I’m sorry,’ it’s because I regret something.’ – Luis Suarez

‘I play piano very badly. That’s my great regret.’ – Marcello Giordani

‘I’m conflicted about the lyric tattoo thing. I feel like that’s a lifetime decision, and I always feel like, ‘I hope you don’t regret this a couple years from now when you get tired of that song.” – Sam Hunt

‘I wear stuff I regret all the time. It’s very rare that I look back at a picture and think it was all good.’ – Suki Waterhouse

‘Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.’ – David Whyte

‘Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.’ – David Whyte

‘To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.’ – David Whyte

‘I don’t regret anything and what I have done in my period of my life. Everything happens for a reason, and that’s why I am here.’ – Golshifteh Farahani

‘I’m never uncomfortable with anything I do. I never feel like I regret anything. I love music, you know? All kinds of music.’ – Juicy J

‘Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last ‘Harry Potter’ film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.’ – Ian Watson

‘Sometimes I regret that the wonderful children’s stories that have been made into movies were – people no longer read ‘The Wizard of Oz’; they think they know the story. They don’t know anything about all the bits and pieces they had to leave out.’ – Robin Hobb

‘I had a blast in the ’90s, perhaps too much fun, and maybe I should have worked a lot harder and partied a lot less, but I definitely don’t regret the 12 years I spent living out in L.A.’ – Zach Galligan

‘Always try clothes on before you buy them. Stand, sit, walk and inspect yourself from all angles before you buy it so you don’t regret it later. Knowing what it looks like on you is very important, as your body shape must suit the cut of the outfit.’ – Tena Desae

‘While my seemingly compulsive school-hopping has raised some eyebrows among my peers and caused my parents understandable consternation, I do not regret it.’ – Alexandra Adornetto

‘Other men have created FTSE 100 companies. But I believe no man has done this in his lifetime without acquisition or borrowing. My one regret is handing over the reigns.’ – Peter Hargreaves

‘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.’ – Darin Strauss

‘I regret waiting until my mid-twenties to really start seeing the world. I think I should have taken more risks when I was younger and worried less about being ready to grow up.’ – John Corey Whaley

‘While my parents never had the time or money to secure university education themselves, they were adamant that their children should. In comfort and in love, we were taught the joys of knowledge and of work well done. I only regret that neither my mother nor my father could live to see the day I would accept the Nobel Prize.’ – Sheldon Lee Glashow

‘Every summer, I regret that I didn’t become a college teacher. Such a sweet life! With all that vacation time! You’ll never get me to believe that being a tenured professor at a good college is anything but Heaven on earth.’ – Michael Dirda

‘I don’t know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a good thing – and it was a wonderful thing, I don’t regret it a bit. But I was sort of discombobulated by it.’ – John Kessel

‘So far, the biggest regret I have in regards to the world of ‘Red Queen’ is that I didn’t get to world-build enough. I don’t think I did enough work explaining how the world came to be, and while I’m planning to go more into it, I’m a greedy writer, and I’m always going to wish I had more room to delve into the complexities of a fantasy realm.’ – Victoria Aveyard

‘I couldn’t possibly have any regrets, because I’ve been very lucky, I’ve been celebrated, and I’ve survived. I couldn’t have one single regret. That would be absurd.’ – Don McCullin

‘I’d like to prove that if you take care of yourself, you can actually not regret the fact that you’ve become an old-timer, but you can just still improve and actually get better.’ – Tony Bennett

‘I don’t regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.’ – Tariq Ali

‘The thing I regret most about my life are those inane photos of me with icons. They used to come down here and dress me up, and I just tolerated it. It’s my fault. But I shouldn’t have done it. They literally brought down costumes, candles, and icons! It was unbelievable stupidity.’ – John Tavener

‘I would say that I definitely became much more religious. They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and this stroke put me into a very deep foxhole. Yet that feeling of faith sustained me, so I have no feelings of anger or regret.’ – Mark Kirk

‘I’ve started spending more of my time studying, trying to improve my IQ by reading and writing. I’ve missed out on a lot in life. I don’t regret this, of course. Nevertheless, I need to make up for lost time.’ – Ilya Ilyin

‘The thing I would hate myself for the most or regret the most is if I did not push myself to maximize my potential and my abilities.’ – Milos Raonic

‘I’m not a blokey bloke. I don’t take myself too seriously. But that doesn’t stop me being a bad person sometimes and doing things I regret. Such as having a child with someone you’ve split up with, then falling in love and wanting to spend the rest of your life with someone else. That’s quite difficult.’ – Tom Ellis

‘I regret the Pro Fit investment because I didn’t know that I was dealing with people who were more concerned about the exposure than fixing their business.’ – Marcus Lemonis

‘We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.’ – Ingmar Bergman

‘My father had always dreamed of getting a Ph.D., but certain life circumstances prevented him from following through. It was a tremendous, deep regret. The day I got my Ph.D., I saw in my father’s face what it meant that I had done this.’ – Jhumpa Lahiri

‘I do have a very deep sense of regret that there was a conflict and that people lost their lives, and you know, many were responsible for that – and a lot of them wear pinstripe suits in London today.’ – Martin McGuinness

‘Religion features more now in my life than it did when I was a kid – my dad rejected the Catholic church as a young man. I had no religious upbringing, but certainly, Dad was a kind of secular humanist. I don’t know if he was an atheist or agnostic. I regret I didn’t talk to him about it.’ – Paul Giamatti

‘Men, who certainly possess not only the savvy but also the know-how to be funny, for some reason, are just not. I began to notice this at a pretty young age, and unfortunately, a lifetime of living – and not a little bit of regret – hasn’t done much to convince me otherwise.’ – Ellie Kemper

‘I want to try to prove that at 100, I could sing as well as I was singing when I was 45 or 43. I’d like to prove that if you take care of yourself, you can actually not regret the fact that you’ve become an old-timer, but you can just still improve and actually get better.’ – Tony Bennett

‘I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he’s given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.’ – Katee Sackhoff

‘I regret not paying a bit more attention to Welsh lessons at school. My Welsh is pretty ropey, as back at my school, people didn’t take Welsh lessons seriously. My dad can speak it, so I wish he’d taught me some growing up.’ – Geraint Thomas

‘If I had to live my life over again, I would live it exactly the same way. I would do everything in the same way. I don’t regret anything.’ – Terezinha Guilhermina

‘I work a lot abroad and have the most wonderful family and kids, but being away, you do miss out sometimes. I really hope I won’t regret the choices in the future.’ – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

‘Have I made mistakes in my many years of political activity? Of course! I am sorry and regret them.’ – Ehud Olmert

‘Vietnam ended a failure: repeatedly, to me, Kissinger described it as his greatest, and most persistent regret. But Congress was more to blame than Kissinger.’ – Alistair Horne

‘I don’t regret being topless in certain things, but there were some things in ‘EastEnders’ where there was no reason for me to be topless.’ – Ben Hardy

‘I can honestly say I had the time of my life in London. I don’t regret one part of it, and I have never wanted the moment to end.’ – Charlotte Dujardin

‘I wasn’t mentally prepared to take care of them, I was focused on my career. And then when I got to be in my 40s and I thought about having kids, I wasn’t able to have kids naturally. I don’t regret it.’ – Aisha Tyler

‘My father told me when I went to college that I needed to take an accounting class. I enrolled and went the first day. I didn’t understand a thing that was being said and dropped the class. I really regret that decision. I should have stuck it out and learned the basics of accounting, but I took the easy way out.’ – Georgina Bloomberg

‘Regret should be handled swiftly, and you shouldn’t hold onto it. People spend their entire lives regretting what they didn’t do and what they should’ve done. Hey, man, you did what you did.’ – John Mellencamp

‘My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.’ – Rose Kennedy

‘I always regret leaving home if I don’t get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it’s the one thing I miss massively.’ – Flume

‘I try to be really conscious. I don’t want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around.’ – Zac Brown

‘It’s so much worse to live in regret in your forties than it is to take a chance in your late twenties.’ – Donna Lynne Champlin

‘I do not regret the years I spent reading the traditional canon of white male writers in school. I do regret reading so little else there: Austen, George Eliot and occasionally Woolf, likewise Wright, Ellison, Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks.’ – Margo Jefferson

‘I’m very grateful for what I have. I’m old enough that I can mort out at any minute without any sense of regret at all. That’s not true. I might look back and think I wish I hadn’t been so selfish when my kids were smaller. But I’m not overwhelmed by regret.’ – Thomas McGuane

‘I got a regret: That I started acting so late. I was 27, and guys who start at 18 or so, there’s this kinda continuity of friendships they form in the profession by startin’ young, I’ve never had that.’ – Peter Falk

‘Sometimes you can tell a wise person not only by what he says but also by what he doesn’t say. Remember, it is much better to say little than to say too much and regret it later.’ – Christian Slater

‘I think plays have nothing to do with one’s own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret – that’s what drama is about!’ – Harold Pinter

‘We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.’ – Deborah Tannen

‘I have nothing but regret that I cannot continue to behave the way I behaved all my life, and I can’t wait for a chance to behave immoderately again.’ – Sonny Mehta

‘I don’t for a second regret my closeness to them because they were wonderful, golden parents who gave me so much confidence.’ – Miriam Margolyes

‘I very much regret that I haven’t been taken more seriously. I would love to have been at the National or the RSC.’ – Miriam Margolyes

‘Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I’m just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.’ – George Michael

‘Once I got a bit older, and we could see there could be a future in football, it was everyone’s blessing to chase that dream. And it did me a lot of good: It put me through college, it gave me an education, it got me a little taste of pro ball and a lot of good memories. I don’t regret any of it.’ – Roman Reigns

‘My only opinion on the L&H ‘home movie’ situation – I regret we have no financial interest in them.’ – Stan Laurel

‘I don’t start fights, but sometimes I don’t walk away from them. It hasn’t happened in a long time, but it’s happened, and I regret those times. I should have been more in control of myself, stronger, more adult.’ – Jim Brown

‘My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.’ – George Best

‘Every mistake that you make, or every thing that you might regret, you don’t need to necessarily regret it, because it can be a step forward. You just move forward and let them go because there will be a lot of bad auditions, and there will be a lot of negative responses. But that won’t last forever.’ – Alexandra Daddario

‘I certainly have no regret living in the U.S. The quality of life in Australia is good, but it is bloody good here as well.’ – James P. Gorman

‘I don’t regret any steps that I take in life.’ – Rey Mysterio

‘When people see my show, they may not laugh out loud as they do with some of the classic comedians, but they do enjoy it. I regret that I called it comedy to begin with; I should have called it ‘An Evening With’ or put it down as spoken word. But the emphasis is always on funny stories.’ – Mick Foley

‘Looking back, I can see that my life with David was molded by forces beyond my control and even my understanding. Still, I don’t regret trying.’ – Angela Bowie

‘My last conversation with my father was an argument we’d had. When I came to know of his hospitalisation, I’d lost him within seven hours. I still regret the last conversation with him.’ – Mouni Roy

‘I’m lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won’t say I’m choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I’m trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.’ – Rakul Preet Singh

‘I don’t regret any decision in my life… not my career, not marriage. Every experience has been so fulfilling in so many ways.’ – Amrita Singh

‘I don’t regret anything, because I feel better every year, and if I’d done something different, maybe I wouldn’t. I’m more of a whole person, the older I get.’ – John Cameron Mitchell

‘I don’t mind talking about ‘what might have been,’ but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.’ – Larry Wilcox

‘I have no regrets. I can’t think of a regret.’ – Jamey Sheridan

‘It always surprises me when people say, ‘I don’t regret one thing about my life. I wouldn’t change anything because it’s all led me to where I am today.’ I would want to change certain things that have caused others pain.’ – Juliette Lewis

‘If you asked me today if there’s a piece that I would do differently – there’s nothing. Regret happens with all my films.’ – Raoul Peck

‘I was always in a big hurry to do everything. Before I was 20, I was married twice and had two kids. But I don’t regret any of it. I learned a lot about myself. I had a lot to say for someone my age, real early on.’ – Carlene Carter

‘I’m trying this thing where I don’t regret as much ’cause it doesn’t really work that well to regret things.’ – James Arthur

‘September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don’t want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.’ – Hamza Yusuf

‘I’ve said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.’ – Hamza Yusuf

‘Do I regret how my life turned out? Of course not – not for a single second.’ – Ryan Holiday

‘I just love that whole Brill Building era. I will always regret not being there. That’s where I belong.’ – Steven Van Zandt

‘I have done ‘Sports Illustrated,’ but I don’t regret it because it portrayed me in a positive way – as an athlete.’ – Alex Morgan

‘You tend to regret the things you haven’t done.’ – Darcey Bussell

‘Sometimes I regret that I don’t have a bit more fun with money. I should have spoilt myself a bit more. Life isn’t going to last for ever.’ – Darcey Bussell

‘I don’t regret putting ‘The Apprentice’ on television.’ – Jeff Zucker

‘The paradox is that money never meant anything to me. And it still doesn’t, except now as an occasion for regret in that there are things that I want to make sure my family is protected when I pass.’ – David Milch

‘No, I don’t regret my decision at all, especially after I started this music career. My eyes were as big as saucers.’ – Johnny Mathis

‘When I left the Giants in 2014, my comments were emotional, insensitive, and misguided, and I truly regret and apologize for my actions. I am committed to working hard to contributing to the success of the Giants.’ – Pablo Sandoval

‘I did some things, including the Body Issue. I’m not going to say I regret doing that, but I think now if you asked me to do it, I would probably say no.’ – Matt Harvey

‘If I’m awake at 2 A.M., I’m either suffering from anxiety or doing something I will regret tomorrow.’ – Erin Foster

‘Appreciate your body now. One day, you’ll look back and regret all the time you wasted worrying about not looking perfect, because you were perfect the whole time.’ – GloZell

‘I try to live my life free of regrets, but I do have one style regret that makes me laugh and cringe at the same time. Mum used to dress my brother and me in bright neon bike pants and big baggy t-shirts that were so long you could barely see our bike pants.’ – Jonathan Anderson

‘My biggest regret is that I wasn’t able to help give our fans a championship.’ – Calvin Johnson

‘One of the things I try to do – and I always regret when I’m not doing it – is I try to read as much as possible as I’m consuming news.’ – Alexandra Petri

‘No, I don’t regret doing anything, and, you know, at the time, ‘Monster-in-Law’ was… I was so excited to get that part. I got to be in a big movie for a few months. I got work, and everybody on it was really nice, and it was a fun experience.’ – Adam Scott

‘My life was really focused on futbol, but as those things happen in life, my passion for music won over my passion for futbol. But I love what I do. I don’t regret it.’ – Maluma

‘I don’t regret leaving ‘Homeland,’ because I wanted to work with the Bhatts. The dates were clashing, and I had to make a choice.’ – Ali Fazal

‘I think it’s essential to engage with your followers. I always used to email bloggers, and no one ever replied, so I try to reply to every comment and question, and although sometimes I regret it when I’m sat on Instagram til 3 A.M., it’s worth it.’ – Ella Woodward

‘As you write about your life, there’s a lot of things that you think about that you regret. It’s interesting, because one of the things I regret the most is spending so much time focused on wrestling as opposed to focusing on my family.’ – Daniel Bryan

‘I love the process – collaborating with the photographers, traveling, and seeing different cultures. My mother always said I would regret it if I didn’t do it. And I think she was right.’ – Freja Beha Erichsen

‘When I like something, I wear it into the ground, then really regret it.’ – Jamie Hince

‘I don’t live in regret land. I live in the now and in the future, and in the dreams that I have.’ – Danny Gokey

‘We deeply regret and are very sorry that some of our customers’ payment cards were used fraudulently after making purchases at our stores.’ – Karen Katz

‘I haven’t done anything I regret; I don’t live for regrets. I’m not a mean person, so I don’t go around doing evil things to people.’ – Keith Barry

‘Some of what is being said about me is untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. I regret that my shame is now shared by the people I cherish dearly.’ – Matt Lauer

‘I don’t regret my decision that I left a popular show like ‘Balika Vadhu.’ I am happy that I am out of the show and took a break for a month in Delhi.’ – Sriti Jha

‘I don’t regret being on television; I just regret the fact that I wanted to be in the movies, and that didn’t happen.’ – Karishma Tanna

‘I don’t regret any of my decisions. But yes, I feel that I should have planned my career well in Bollywood. But then again, I did not have any guidance. There was no one to tell me the dos and don’ts.’ – Amruta Khanvilkar

‘There are moments in your life where you realize you could do nothing, but if you do, you’ll probably regret it forever.’ – Milana Vayntrub

‘I don’t remember myself to be a forefront fighter, but when pushed to a point with a wall behind me, there is only one way forward. Later you can call it a Rambo syndrome, but I never regret it, as it comes naturally to me, and in my mind, that is the only way.’ – Kamal Haasan

‘I chose to be in business, and I don’t regret it.’ – Zhou Qunfei

‘I don’t regret anything I haven’t done.’ – Philip Green

‘If I had not made strategic choices, I would have had far more access to dramatic roles. But the one thing I don’t regret, even about bad choices, is that there’s always something you can get out of it.’ – Carol Kane

‘I don’t regret what I’ve done but some of the things I didn’t do.’ – Carol Kane

‘I used to worry a lot. I still worry a lot, but not about the things that I used to worry about because my younger self, I didn’t regret anything that I ever did… I was happy, and I was free, and I was living it up.’ – Cardi B

‘There’s a lot of things I could’ve done better, and I regret not doing better. I do know I always gave it my best shot.’ – Jon Gruden

‘If I dress up, I try to wear something that’s still a bit me, but then I regret it when I see that everyone else has dressed up more and looks amazing.’ – Maxine Peake

‘I know very well that to admit to loving Bright Eyes is to admit to having an overgrown brain region devoted to self-pity, sentimentality, regret, and a handful of other not very appealing emotional states.’ – Ben Dolnick

‘I regret a couple of wardrobe decisions.’ – Winston Marshall

‘Do invest in Brazil, and you shall not regret it.’ – Michel Temer

‘I don’t regret ‘West Side Story’ one bit. It was an incredible movie full of young people with amazing rapport.’ – George Chakiris

‘I gave it up three weeks before my black belt, foolishly. I got to my third brown belt and must have trained for 18 months but never went for it. I was nearly 18 and got this thing in my head about, ‘ Who are they to grade me?’ Trying to be a rebel when I should have done it. It’s my only regret, not going for a black belt.’ – Ian Brown

‘I quit comics in 1988 and trained as a bus driver. I used to drive those big Greyhound coaches out of New York Port Authority and down to Princeton, New Jersey. It was, hands down, the best job I ever had, and I profoundly regret having left it. I kept that job the entire time I was on staff at DC Comics in the ’90s.’ – Christopher Priest

‘My greatest regret is that my mother died before I could help her materially.’ – James L. Brooks

‘Designer pricing should hurt, but it shouldn’t kill you. You wince when you hand over your AmEx, but once you get it home, you never regret it. You divide it by how many days you’re using it, and suddenly it becomes affordable.’ – Michael Bastian

‘I always tell myself, ‘There are so many things you regret doing or eating, but you never regret a workout.’ I always feel better after a workout. I have more energy, and mentally, I’m in a better place.’ – Nina Agdal

‘I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the incidents that I caused were not funny… Youth is wasted on the young. It is better to have the wisdom of an old man in a young body… I was a bit foolish and teased people, trying to be funny.’ – Jim Broadbent

‘You always regret upsetting people needlessly.’ – Mary Beard

‘I’ve taken a number of creative leaps, and some of them worked, and some of them didn’t, but I don’t regret any of them because you can’t possibly get to the ones that work without the ones that don’t.’ – Laeta Kalogridis

”Friday Night Lights’ was never a break-out hit; I’ll never regret doing that show.’ – Kevin Reilly

‘I don’t regret anything about my younger career, mainly because we were children and didn’t have too much power, but also because it gave us the privilege to be where we are now.’ – Cole Sprouse

‘I push myself as hard as I can every day so I can achieve my goals and so I feel I have nothing to regret later on after my career.’ – Max Aaron

‘I believe in the redemptive need to admit mistakes, express regret, and ask for forgiveness.’ – Ana Navarro

‘Honestly, I regret not having spanked my kids.’ – Kenya Barris

‘I don’t regret the decisions that I’ve made. I really truly understand why I made them.’ – Debbie Millman

‘I didn’t know, at 22, that regret is useless. If I could go back and change something – give myself some big break, pass along some secret information, reassure myself that most things would, in fact, work out – I don’t think I would.’ – Rumaan Alam

‘I think it would be the biggest regret of mine – getting anything tattooed.’ – Madelaine Petsch

‘I went through whole scene kid phase from when I was, like, 12 years old to 15. Black eyeliner – I got gauges, which I definitely regret now – and I had the world’s worst haircut: it looked similar to a mullet with a rat’s tail, essentially. It was not great.’ – Madelaine Petsch

‘I thought that NASA didn’t take biologists and so nothing would come of it. But I knew I would regret it if I did not apply.’ – Kathleen Rubins

‘It is my biggest regret that I let my marriage to Erica fail. It is what it is, and she is doing an incredible job with the kids, and we are in a great place.’ – James Packer

‘There is no doubt One.Tel was a terrible investment and something that I regret greatly.’ – James Packer

‘I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry – my lost careers were being a writer, artist, or academic. Do I regret spending all that time poring over Shakespeare when I could have been getting a jump start on the competition? Not at all.’ – Caterina Fake

‘I hear people in their 20s describe the 40s as a far-off decade of too-late, when they’ll regret things that they haven’t done. But for older people I meet, the 40s are the decade that they would most like to travel back to.’ – Pamela Druckerman

‘I could have worked with great people like Nile Rodgers, which I regret. I don’t have many regrets, but I remember he’d shown some interest, and I was just in my own world, man.’ – Fantastic Negrito

‘I’ll never regret a moment I spent at the University of Oklahoma or my decision to stay home and become a Sooner for life.’ – Trae Young

‘Everything ‘Atonement’ does, it does incredibly well, including depicting characters of varying ages and temperaments and showing the intensity of early romantic love and connection and the very different intensity of haunting regret.’ – Curtis Sittenfeld

‘America will regret imposing sanctions on Iran… they’re already isolated in the world.’ – Hassan Rouhani

”ER’ was an all-consuming universe, but I don’t have a single regret. It gave me some of the greatest friendships I have and afforded me one of the rarest commodities in an actor’s life, which is the financial security to pick and choose jobs for factors besides the paycheck.’ – Noah Wyle

‘I think one of the things I regret was not having more faith in myself early on.’ – Myles Kennedy

‘I think I’m designed to regret everything.’ – James Murphy

‘I have a love-hate relationship with working out. I do not enjoy the experience when I’m doing it, but I never regret it.’ – Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

‘I’m very open with my life, and I don’t regret it because it’s what got me here.’ – Colleen Ballinger

‘I often think about what my replacement will do after I’m fired. She won’t have emotional commitments to decisions that I already regret.’ – Glenn Kelman

‘I stayed in Miami and New York until I was about nine, and then we moved to India and stayed there for about four years and eventually moved to Berlin. It was definitely a cultural experience in its fullest, and I absorbed a lot. I don’t regret any of it.’ – Amber Mark

‘Regret is something I wanted to write a lot about because once you make a decision, regret doesn’t do anything except linger inside you.’ – Crystal Hana Kim

‘As a son and as a father, there are still various things that I haven’t done as well as I should have – that’s my dilemma and regret.’ – Hirokazu Kore-eda

‘I don’t regret how I built the Cruiserweight division. Could I have done better? Sure. Absolutely. I’m sure I could have, especially with 20/20 hindsight. I just don’t know of anybody that I talk to that looks back at that division and says, ‘Oh, man, that sucked.” – Eric Bischoff

‘I’m not a person who regrets – it doesn’t make me smarter to regret something.’ – Marcel Wanders

‘I think the only regret I have is not to have opened my eyes sooner to aspects of life like the relationship of man with nature and animals.’ – Sylvie Guillem

‘If I ever called myself an activist, I regret it, and I was cornered into it by an industry who couldn’t justify me taking up space without saying that I had some kind of radical political agenda because they saw my participation as a radical political thing. Which it was not.’ – Hari Nef

‘I knew how to upset the people, and I did it in such a way that it was believable. That’s how I made a living at it for 20 years. I don’t regret a thing I done or said in wrestling. Nothing.’ – Paul Orndorff

‘I was 17 or 18 when ‘The Twist’ came along, and the rest is history. Sometimes I regret it. I would have gotten more into acting. I would have been more of a legitimate performer onstage like Liza Minnelli. But I got so caught up in the dance thing that I never got into theater.’ – Chubby Checker

‘This is my greatest regret – that my music is not being played, and more people aren’t seeing Chubby Checker. That’s very painful for me. Many nights, I have tears in my eyes about that.’ – Chubby Checker

‘I quit the Knicks, so I know what quitting is. I did. I quit. And it’s something I regret to this day. I live with it every day, and I regret it. And I let my emotions come into it. And I was just emotionally spent. I made a bad decision, and I quit.’ – Jeff Van Gundy

‘I didn’t know where my career was going to go. Somehow, people sensed that I have certain talents and cast me in these bizarre, off-beat roles, which I have no regret about. I’ve enjoyed playing every one of them.’ – Christopher Lloyd

‘I’ll always regret how I recorded ‘Burgundy’ ’cause it’s not how I felt. The words that were coming out of my mouth and how I mean them, it’s so much different.’ – Earl Sweatshirt

‘My one regret is that I didn’t win a trophy with Tottenham, despite us being a strong team who played good, attractive football.’ – Luka Modric

‘I think you regret the things that you don’t do more than the things you do.’ – Rachel Riley

‘I think I regret the impact on everybody. But I think I just maybe could have gone about it in a kinder way.’ – Rebecca Loos

‘I don’t regret speaking out, but I regret the way I went about it, so put it that way, yes.’ – Rebecca Loos

‘I can’t really regret things; you just have to move on and live your life.’ – Meghan McCain

‘If you regret anything in your life, then you haven’t learned any lessons.’ – Debbie Rowe

‘I don’t regret a single decision of mine. Even if I made mistakes, they helped me evolve.’ – Taapsee Pannu

‘Around 2005, UFC offered me a chance to fight for them. But, at that moment, I was under contract with NJPW, and I decided to stay in pro-wrestling. It was a good opportunity, but I don’t regret my choice.’ – Shinsuke Nakamura

‘I never regret my decisions.’ – Alexis Sanchez

‘If I could go back in time, I would have loved to have done more with Triple H. He blossomed into a bigger star after I left. I regret, looking back now, that we didn’t have more matches or better matches or at least one pay-per-view match where we could have really showed our best stuff – or, at least, I did.’ – Bret Hart

‘I always had a sort of niggling regret that we didn’t come do stuff in America.’ – Noel Fielding

‘What I regret most after becoming a cartoonist is having used my real name. At first, I figured there was no way I’d sell anyhow, so I didn’t even consider using a pen name.’ – Akira Toriyama

‘It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club. I would like to state that I have great respect for the club, its supporters, and the owner, Sheikh Mansour, who has been nothing other than respectful to me.’ – Carlos Tevez

‘I don’t regret anything, not even leaving Boca because it was the time to do so.’ – Carlos Tevez

‘My biggest fear is that I might end up doing a film which I might regret at a later point of time.’ – Nani

‘I don’t want to regret doing something that I don’t believe in.’ – Nani

‘I would never regret joining a club like Chelsea, and hopefully I will be a long time at Chelsea.’ – Alvaro Morata

‘There was no way the marriages could have survived. Nor do I regret that they didn’t.’ – Ava Gardner

‘Given the opportunity, I might change a choice I made, but you can’t regret making what you thought was the best decision at the time.’ – Carol Channing

‘I don’t think about the record, because winning games has to be our focus, and if we lost focus thinking about that record, I would really regret it. How will I feel later on? People tell me it will mean a lot after I retire, for the kids and me. But to me, it’s just a stat. It’s something people enjoy talking about. Me? I just enjoy playing.’ – John Stockton

‘You can’t let regret stifle your creativity.’ – Tom Green

‘My biggest misfortune, my greatest regret, is that I wish I’d cut my time with Clint in half. I wouldn’t say I wish I never had the relationship, but I wish I’d found a way – I’d understood who he was, where it would end – five or six years earlier so I could have gotten on with things.’ – Sondra Locke

‘I have done a lot of crazy things in my life, and I do not regret anything.’ – Nora Fatehi

‘There are many things that only teenagers can do. Many things that they learn while they are teenagers will become important tools for them after they grow up, and I hope teenagers would make choices that they will not regret in the future.’ – Kim Woo-bin

‘I don’t regret the decision to leave Madrid, only the way that I left, which wasn’t the best.’ – Robinho

‘If you ask my one regret, it is that I could not bring those City fans a trophy. That’s the only thing that leaves me a little sad.’ – Robinho

‘The World Cup is the World Cup, and I’m sad I won’t play in it; that’s my only regret. But to play a friendly with my national team, I did it many times, so it’s not something I’m missing.’ – Samir Nasri

‘I don’t regret leaving Arsenal.’ – Samir Nasri

‘I do not have regrets, I do not regret joining Manchester City.’ – Samir Nasri

‘If starting games in a club like Manchester City and winning two titles isn’t enough, too bad. I won’t regret anything.’ – Samir Nasri

‘I used to lie a lot as a child, which I now regret. I think it is much easier just to tell the truth.’ – Farhan Akhtar

‘If you regret a mistake, don’t just make that mistake again. Look at it and learn from it and grow from it.’ – Vitor Belfort

‘I regret losing my innocence so early.’ – Tulisa

‘If I get to the end of my life, if I die, and I find out religion is one big lie, I still won’t regret it because it’s helped me to live a better life, to be a better person, to care about people, to believe in forgiveness, to believe in hope.’ – Elizabeth Smart

‘I will never regret being there for my children, watching them, making sure they’ll be okay. But I might regret not being there for them.’ – Elizabeth Smart

‘If you were a Democrat getting ready to run for office in the 2000s, as I was, you were told to stay clear of guns… I really regret that. I regret having listened to that advice.’ – Chris Murphy

‘Do I regret leaving Milan? I decided I needed a change. I needed to find new ideas, and that was the best thing for both parties.’ – Andrea Pirlo

‘My greatest regret would be that I took my success for granted, because it was given to me at such a young age.’ – Lorenzo Lamas

‘If I was lying on the side of the mountain, dying, would I have any regrets? Yeah. I would regret not making films.’ – Jim Sarbh

‘I don’t regret leaving Napoli.’ – Fabio Quagliarella

‘As for me not playing for England, I’ve got no regret at all.’ – Wilfried Zaha

‘I don’t regret anything in life.’ – Urvashi Rautela

‘I am not premeditated in what I am going to say. That means there will be times I regret saying certain things.’ – Kyle Richards

‘I don’t regret a single day of my life.’ – Jennifer Winget

‘I don’t regret the way I approached things, because otherwise I wouldn’t have achieved what I did, but when I look back, I could have enjoyed things more.’ – Alun Wyn Jones

‘I am what I am. I don’t regret anything.’ – Kamaru Usman

‘My biggest regret in life – well, one of them – is that I wasn’t muskie fishing from ’92 to ’96 when I was not married.’ – Christian Laettner

‘I wasted a lot of my talent in the ’90s because the money was so big, and I was making so much money, I didn’t care to practise as much. That is my only regret.’ – John Daly

‘I don’t have even a moment of regret for leaving my career behind.’ – Namrata Shirodkar

‘Looking back on my ‘Full House’ wardrobe days, I think I almost regret all of my fashion moments. Oh man, I mean the high-waisted jeans, the cowboy boots, and the tent dresses I used to wear? I don’t know what I was thinking.’ – Lori Loughlin

‘The career I had at Celtic, the amount of goals and assists and the relationship with the fans and the club, I can’t regret that. That’s something I’m going to cherish as long as I live.’ – Henrik Larsson

‘I wouldn’t say I regret anything. I would say I just wish I did things better.’ – Greg Oden

‘I regret not taking my 83-year-old mother to the Oscars the year I won. She deserved the Oscar for giving up so much for me.’ – Kathy Bates

‘I look back in retrospect, and I would never say I regret not one of my children. They are why I live.’ – Nadya Suleman

‘I used to say I didn’t regret dropping out of school because it’s what I had to do. But I do feel it. There are certain conversations I feel excluded from. When people talk about Greek history, I just have to sit there and listen. I excuse myself from games of Trivial Pursuit.’ – Neve Campbell

‘If I regret leaving City, I’d regret leaving Madrid, I would regret Arsenal, and I would regret maybe even Metz, where I started off. So I have no regrets in life; life is too short to start regretting things.’ – Emmanuel Adebayor

‘Ultimately, I have one life, and you always regret the things you don’t do.’ – Jordan Fisher

‘Actually, the only thing that I can honestly say I really regret now is the blackface thing. I did not understand.’ – Sean Waltman

‘The only thing I regret is not winning the Premier League with Liverpool. I’ll never know how that feels and experience the reaction of the city, as I did after Istanbul. It hurts because I know the people want the league title more than anything.’ – Xabi Alonso

‘I tried hard to create my own records when a lot of them belonged to Steve Davis, so to see someone else beat yours, you’d be lying if you said there wasn’t a twinge of regret there.’ – Stephen Hendry

‘Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.’ – Joseph Heller

‘After ‘Taramani,’ life has changed – in a sense, as we grow, we evolve. My regret was post its release. After giving so much of my effort, blood, sweat, tears and time for a movie… I still didn’t get any big offers. That really hurt.’ – Andrea Jeremiah

‘I don’t regret the move to Bayern. It’s a very good moment for me, also because my team-mates trust in me.’ – Thiago Alcantara

‘Something I have learnt from my past trips is, however tired you are, make sure you make the most of the moment and the place you are in. The regret of missing out on things kicks in later on.’ – Nikita Dutta

‘I do not regret the end of my first marriage.’ – Ronan Keating

‘I talk about past relationships in my book, all of which I would never regret, as they played huge parts in who I am today.’ – Gigi Gorgeous

‘I started my career because if I’d have done anything else, I would regret it. I truly feel this career chose me more than I chose it. I would say that it’s for something greater than me with a little of the creative fulfillment that comes with it splashed in there.’ – Anthony Ramos

‘I’ll definitely play cricket again, but only socially. I’ve still got a lot of friends at my local team, Green Mount, and I do miss playing, but I don’t regret anything.’ – Phil Neville

‘I don’t want to rush into retirement and regret it, because people say play as long as possible until the legs can’t take any more.’ – Phil Neville

‘I never regret any of the work I’ve done.’ – Asha Bhosle

‘I don’t regret turning out in the colours of Super Eagles. I love Nigeria, and I was prepared to come and play for the nation.’ – Victor Moses

‘I’ve had a lot of ups and a lot of downs, but I don’t look back on anything with regret.’ – Jimmy Barnes

‘In the emotion, you say things that you regret the next day.’ – Niko Kovac

‘I do not regret anything I do.’ – Tessa Blanchard

‘Having children has no bearing on the ability to be PM. I deeply regret that anyone has got the impression that I think otherwise.’ – Andrea Leadsom

‘I have one regret that whenever I look at the list of world’s leading scorers, I don’t see any Pakistani who has scored 10,000 Test runs; even I couldn’t do it ,nor Muhammad Yousuf.’ – Inzamam-ul-Haq

‘I don’t think there’s a person out there who can say they haven’t done something they regret.’ – Lane Kiffin

‘Most young talented players I worked with over many, many years who I’ve met later have said, ‘Oh, I wish I’d listened to you.’ When you meet them later in life they regret not taking the opportunity with the talent they had.’ – Sam Allardyce

‘As for regret, more than anything else, my regret lies in that the WWE Universe never really got the real Austin Aries. Outside of commentary, they missed out on the chance to hear and see me be me, and do what I do best.’ – Austin Aries

‘My role in Palin is something that there’s not a day that has gone by that I don’t have regret about.’ – Steve Schmidt

‘When I grew up, I had everything you could ask for, and I kind of didn’t appreciate it. Because it was a given for me. Everybody that grew up in my neighborhood was going to have an opportunity to go to college. I took that for granted. I always regret that.’ – Chris Long

‘I have always had a blank spot where my regret is supposed to be.’ – David Berman

‘I didn’t want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn’t know what you did with a bachelor’s in biology. So I switched over and got my degree in communications. I regret it now. It was one of the most idiotic things I ever did.’ – Gary Larson

‘I think we all have regrets but I try to just learn from them instead of giving them too much attention and validity in my life. I used to regret not going to a major four-year university and missing out on dorm life but if I had done that, who knows if I would be doing what I do now.’ – Ser’Darius Blain

‘What I do regret is working too hard sometimes instead of really enjoying my youth. I’m trying to make an effort to stop and smell the roses now.’ – Ser’Darius Blain

‘I don’t regret standing up to Gamergate at all.’ – Brianna Wu

‘Maybe there is some regret with how I left Southampton.’ – Dejan Lovren

‘For me I think the sport is as good as it is, I really personally miss the sound a lot of the old engines, the V8s, the V10s. That is personally my biggest regret or miss, what is lacking I think with the sensation of Formula 1, a lot of people associate also with that.’ – Nico Hulkenberg

‘I don’t regret writing my book at all. I wrote it for the United supporters to give them a proper insight into what it is like inside the club, and what it is like to be a Manchester United player. I think I did that in an honest way.’ – Jaap Stam

‘Don’t think because I’m a positive dude, I’m going to always say something nice. If you come at me crooked, one too many times or if too many people came at me crooked too many times in a row, then they’re going to get it. I don’t always exercise that self control and I don’t regret it either.’ – Malik Yoba

‘Later in life there should not be any regrets. Sometimes you have children too early and regret it, ‘If I wouldn’t have, my career would have been different’ and sometimes when you don’t have, you miss that opportunity.’ – Farah Khan

‘People often get caught in situations or do something that they regret for the rest of their lives. What happens and how you try to cover up is the story. These are not career criminals.’ – Sriram Raghavan

‘I don’t look back and regret anything.’ – Donovan McNabb

‘No, I don’t regret any of the films that I did.’ – Prateik Babbar

‘Relationships have been a way of life and I don’t regret being in one ever.’ – Prateik Babbar

‘I don’t regret any of the places I went in football. Everything gave me an experience or memories that I’ll have forever. We had more success in San Francisco, but it was a great time everywhere. I always had fun.’ – Steve Young

‘I don’t think my experience with professional football has been what you’d call normal but I don’t regret it.’ – Steve Young

‘My only ambition was to get to 50, and not regret not having had a crack at being a comic.’ – Lee Mack

‘I’m not going to apologise or regret anything I say.’ – Fraser Anning

‘My failures were something for me – my first contact with professional football. Though it didn’t go all that well, it’s not a regret, it’s just like that. But looking back, those failures helped me consider football differently, consider the professional game differently.’ – N’Golo Kante

‘My only regret is that I didn’t play for Howard Wilkinson earlier. I would have achieved more and played even longer if I had.’ – Chris Kamara

‘I’ve gotten to do some really amazing things, gone to some really amazing places, and just have some really unique experiences. And if I have one regret looking back it’s that – not a regret even, because I think that’s kind of labeling depression as something you can control – but I just wish I would have been able to enjoy it more fully.’ – Laura Jane Grace

‘Honestly, I don’t ever regret anything I say.’ – Patrick Reed

‘Theatre has been a sort of hobby. I regret that I am not active, but given my job that is difficult. But those were learning days. The learning curve was the level of confidence, maturity, and reflexes that theatre teaches you is fantastic. You are alone in front of an audience for two hours and that gives you a different kind of confidence.’ – Ronnie Screwvala

‘I was guided into piano lessons and ‘guided’ is a nice way of saying ‘forced.’ I don’t regret it, but I think music theory as a concept doesn’t work.’ – Jon Hopkins

‘Thirty years on, I am no longer as certain about anything as I was at age 20. I now regret my support for the war in Iraq and kick myself for the naive expectation that freedom was destined to prevail.’ – Max Boot

‘It’s hard to regret making the choice that you think is right.’ – Porter Robinson

‘I was always fearful I would become That Guy. The guy who had regret. ‘Yeah, we won a couple of championships, but I never saw my kids grow up. Yeah, we beat Georgia a couple of times, but I ruined my marriage.” – Urban Meyer

‘With my kids I just missed so many things, and that’s a regret I have.’ – Anne Murray

‘My departure from Juve remains a regret, a mistake that taught me one thing – never make an immediate decision, at the end of the season, when everyone is ‘boiling.’ I have paid for such an experience.’ – Didier Deschamps

‘You can’t regret anything – it’s over with.’ – Gary Payton

‘The thing that I regret is not having better relationships with a lot of people. Being the hard-nosed guy that I was, I think I could’ve come off a little bit better in my relationships with a lot of people, and I didn’t.’ – Gary Payton

‘I did a lot of things I regret.’ – Gary Payton

‘I was better than certain players at Manchester City but I was left on the bench. Before I left the club, I told the people in charge that they would regret letting me go.’ – Kolo Toure

‘I don’t regret anything I say… Never.’ – LaVar Ball

‘The only time I used to regret being a woman was when I had to use the toilets on sets when I would be shooting.’ – Sharmila Tagore

‘I loathed my first term boarding at Bryanston school in Dorset. I hated being away from home; I think I had my parents in tears every time I spoke to them. I regret being so spoilt because within two terms I loved it.’ – Ben Fogle

‘If, by deferring or maybe even skipping college entirely, students were foregoing their one hope for immersion in Western civilization, there would indeed be grounds for regret.’ – Heather Mac Donald

‘We recognise that, like us, other humans have insecurities and ambitions; we fall in love and have relationships that end in heartbreak; we worry about our children’s wellbeing; we say things we regret; we’re occasionally kept awake by fears or worries; and we try to impress people we look up to.’ – Owen Jones

‘Everybody in life says things at times that they regret.’ – Kate Gosselin

‘I have always worked with utmost care. I have given my 25 years. I seemed I have more to offer than just acting. So, there is no regret.’ – Roopa Ganguly

‘I don’t really regret much of my music life.’ – Aesop Rock

‘Do I regret getting into football? The answer is yes. I have had tonnes of fun in it but I haven’t been able to make the difference I wanted to like I have at Sports Direct.’ – Mike Ashley

‘We were to work in a film titled ‘Zabardast’. Unfortunately, this film didn’t take off. After this, I never got another chance to work with him, I regret not having worked with Dilip Kumar.’ – Asha Parekh

‘However, for my characters to have depth, they have to be human and complex, have both qualities and flaws, do the right things at times, and at others, things they’ll regret having done and not necessarily know how to undo.’ – Christine Leunens

‘You will regret not seeing me fight live.’ – Justin Gaethje

‘I have soaked this league up for everything it’s worth. I’ve had fun. Made some great relationships. I don’t regret anything. Don’t regret being in Kansas City. It’s all been very good to me. So why would I take that approach? There will be no pity party thrown here.’ – Tony Gonzalez

‘I know so many people who have tremendous regret in their life.’ – Cris Carter

‘A couple of words that somebody said to somebody many years ago is not who they are today. You regret it, you apologize, you make it right, you move on and you live your life according to the values of what you have.’ – Diana Taylor

‘Men should know that no job is more important than their family. I had that all screwed up for a long time. I regret it.’ – Jim Ross

‘I’m a target on and off the court. I’ve done some things I regret. But being a target is rough.’ – Matt Barnes

‘There is no feeling of regret spending time on the campaign. I think working closely with Kalam made me realise how simple he is in life.’ – Vivek

‘I knew a notorious reptile dealer who would send me animals for Area. I regret that. I mean, the landlord had wolves and an arctic fox upstairs and quite possibly a tiger.’ – Eric Goode

‘I don’t regret my choice to sign for Milan.’ – Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

‘I definitely regret hurting people.’ – Megan Phelps-Roper

‘The secret of making a mistake is not to regret it, or regret it until a certain point, but to learn from it.’ – Gino D’Acampo

‘When I was in Vegas, people asked, ‘Did you ever regret not going to SMU?’ What? I’m in Vegas. I’m on TV every Saturday. I’m winning titles. Did I regret it? That’s a silly question.’ – Larry Johnson

‘My biggest regret is that there are only 24 hours in a day. I wish there was at least a few more hours. Each hour of me being awake means I can help a few more migrants who are stranded and are desperate to reach home.’ – Sonu Sood

‘I have cheated. But I don’t regret it because we were not serious. I wouldn’t have ever done it if I were serious about the girl.’ – Abhay Deol

‘Sacrifice always seems to imply a bitterness attached to it. But I don’t feel bitter about the choices I’ve made. Yes, I sacrifice a job because I made certain family decisions, but I don’t regret it.’ – Dana Reeve

‘My only regret is that I didn’t get into acting ten years earlier when I was handsome!’ – Paul Kaye

‘My biggest regret is by far doing the Travel Channel show, ‘Bert the Adventurer.’ I spent seven years away from my family. I don’t regret the job or working for the channel; I regret being away from home.’ – Bert Kreischer

‘The only regret I can have is that Inter sold a player that is now completely recovered. I said many times that I wouldn’t have left Inter without showing who I was. But then they sold me.’ – Fabio Cannavaro

‘I don’t regret anything I’ve done. But all I have to show for it are stories.’ – Michael Caputo

‘I played at full-back for 10 years, I enjoyed it, and I had success there, so I can never regret being a defender.’ – Philipp Lahm

‘I think most I regret the way I treated Dr. Dre after he so graciously opened the doors to his kingdom to me.’ – Scott Storch

‘My major regret in life is not going to university, though not for the qualification I would have gained. People I know who went there have a working method where they sit down and get something done; they know how to start and get on with things. I will do anything to avoid getting on with stuff.’ – Sean Lock

‘I think people may regret not following their instincts a lot.’ – Yo Gotti

‘For better or worse, I refuse to live my life with regret. Sometimes, I’ll look back on my past mistakes with fondness. But I never wished I wouldn’t have made them. That’s why I don’t like re-takes.’ – Takashi Miike

‘Anurag wanted to cast me for ‘Gangs of Wasseypur,’ but he didn’t approach me for it as he had an unflattering image of me in his mind. I regret big-time about this as I was very much willing to be part of such a powerful film.’ – Ravi Kishan

‘I don’t regret trying acting. When I decided to stop, I don’t regret that either.’ – Danny Lloyd

‘I should have got a better deal in my career, but everything has its time. You can’t rush things, feel remorse or regret.’ – Chunky Pandey

‘I took responsibility for the illegal actions, the potential for violence in my past actions, which I regret.’ – Susan Rosenberg

‘Not having children isn’t something I regret. I acknowledge that some things have been easier for me than they would have been for others.’ – Cressida Dick

‘My only regret about money is that I don’t have more to give away.’ – John C. Bogle

‘I’ve made a lot of dumb mistakes, but I don’t regret them at all.’ – Orson Bean

‘If there was a regret, the one thing I didn’t get to do before he died, was bury the hatchet with Ultimate Warrior.’ – Ted DiBiase Sr.

‘I’ve been asked many times, do you regret never having been the world champion, you know? I kind of laugh. I say well, you know, this business is a work. It’s like, none of those guys are ever really the world wrestling champion. The titles are props in this business.’ – Ted DiBiase Sr.

‘I used to worry a lot and regret a lot before I took on this whole concept of karma. But now I understand that destiny is what it’s all about. I still push ahead and look forward to achieving certain goals but I try not to lay up expectations that they have to happen.’ – Judith Durham

‘I didn’t leave Barcelona in the best way but I took the decision to leave and I don’t regret it. There were a few problems with the club – some misunderstandings – and so I decided to leave because I wanted to develop as a player.’ – Adama Traore

‘I regret that I never learned how to play on the perimeter.’ – Roy Hibbert

‘I’m ready to wait for the best role rather than do all the projects coming my way and regret about it later.’ – Shamna Kasim

‘Sometimes people say things on the field that they might regret, but they should stay on the field.’ – Joe Root

‘I do not regret it and I really enjoyed my time at Spurs. I improved a lot playing with big players.’ – Gylfi Sigurdsson

‘It is my biggest regret that I gave up 10 runs on my last outing as a Ranger.’ – Yu Darvish

‘One of the many things I regret is that I hurt so many people by giving them nasty nicknames, and above all that I was unkind to the children of celebrities.’ – Perez Hilton

‘Never tweet while you’re angry; you’ll probably regret it later.’ – Skai Jackson

‘Everyone is going to go through that phase of not liking their hair, but at the end of the day you’re going to regret that you ever put relaxer or anything in your hair.’ – Skai Jackson

‘All of us at some point in life regret for things we did and did not do in life.’ – Shweta Basu Prasad

‘God has blessed me with an ability to go out there and play the game that I love to play. And I don’t want to regret that. So, I feel I need to go out every day and play like it’s my last.’ – Marcus Smart

‘I believe that inspiration is one of the most powerful forces in life. In career and in relationships, it’s worth searching for the path that inspires you. Pursuing such a path often entails risk – it may involve making a big change in what you’re doing – but the career risks we regret most are the ones we don’t take.’ – Vivek Murthy

‘I’ve been with beautiful women, had my share of highs and lows. But I have a regret – I wanted to be a hero. I never got the chance, even though I was good-looking, I could sing and dance too.’ – Bob Christo

‘I don’t want to regret anything in my career.’ – Jan Vertonghen

‘Everyday I look back at my history and feel regret.’ – J Hus

‘I never regret nothing I say. Never. Nothing I do. Never regret it.’ – LeSean McCoy

‘In 1940 my mum took a job as under-matron at her old school, which had been evacuated from Eastbourne to Windermere; I got a bursary and spent eight years as a boarder. It was a smashing education; I regret being at a single-sex school, but I had a brother, so knew what guys were.’ – Prunella Scales

‘I regret hurting my wife and my child and abandoning them. I regret the pain I caused them.’ – Vikram Bhatt

‘Of course, there are days when you remember that what if I had continued irrespective of hits or flops, maybe I would have been in different place. I agree and accept that, but there is no need to regret because the 8-9 years I was away from cinema has also given me depth and changed me as a person.’ – Rahul Roy

‘My biggest regret is not winning the Super Bowl.’ – Ron Rivera

‘My only regret is that I didn’t win trophies with Arsenal.’ – Andrey Arshavin

‘A regret? That I never played for Manchester United, I’d have liked that.’ – Pavel Nedved

‘I didn’t have a school life like everyone else because I started working at a young age. That’s what I regret.’ – Shin Min-a

‘I don’t regret a single moment of staying away from the camera.’ – Ayesha Takia

‘I never really felt 100 percent me while singing in those Jimin years. But I don’t regret it, because I think that it was the only time that I can sing those songs, when I was in my early 10s and teens.’ – Jamie Park

‘I look at other people’s tats for probably the idea, or like, where to put it or something. But, at the end of the day, all my tats gotta mean something back to me. The moment you get something that don’t mean something to you, you’re gonna regret that tattoo.’ – NLE Choppa

‘I would have to honestly say that my biggest regret is even starting this sport. I think I would’ve lived a different life if I would’ve stayed home in Memphis and worked at the family business. I’d be closer to my family and growing old with them instead of living out at California.’ – Quinton Jackson

‘That’s one thing I don’t want to happen is a regret getting a tat because that bad boy not going away.’ – Bradley Beal

‘I hurt people with my words and I regret that.’ – Colin Cowherd

‘In one part of my mind, I regret that there were 15 years spent not acting. But in the other part of my mind, I have no regrets. If I had been acting, I wouldn’t have been able to do so many of the things I have done.’ – Lorne Greene

‘Every job I’ve had I feel lucky to have had. Of all the family, I was the lucky one. I’ve been very fortunate. I don’t regret anything, I don’t crave anything.’ – Tony Pulis

‘When you’re young you say things you maybe regret, I have been there and I am sure every player has, you say something you wish you hadn’t and you learn from these things.’ – Tony Pulis

‘If you ask about regrets, I normally don’t regret. I enjoy everything, even if it’s bad or good.’ – Sergei Polunin

‘I regret the negative press that has come with my climb of the Delicate Arch, but I think that there is a bigger picture. And I would hope that it could open the eyes of the public and the community to the bigger problem of what’s going on, which is the mismanagement of our wild lands and the national park.’ – Dean Potter

‘After I played the mother in a few films, I was only offered mother roles. I just wanted to act; so I don’t regret doing any film.’ – Rohini Hattangadi

‘I do believe that my life, career has been fulfilling, I’ve had my share of disappointments too, but I have nothing to regret.’ – Deepti Naval

‘In life, you can’t regret anything because it’s called opportunities that you pass. You’re the only one that can take the opportunity but you disappoint yourself with the decision of doing or not doing.’ – Michel’le

‘The quest for love became all consuming to the point where I would give up shooting the cover of ‘Glamour’ magazine to go be with someone I was crazy about. I look back on that now and I would never let my own child do that, but I don’t regret it.’ – Bebe Buell

‘There’s a lot of regret that I have about not showing my proper gratitude to my grandmother.’ – Lee Isaac Chung

‘I don’t regret my time there at all. I wasn’t the main girlfriend in the relationship. Hef and Holly were the ones talking about possible marriage and having kids, and I knew I was never going to do that kind of thing with Hef.’ – Bridget Marquardt

‘I’ve said so many things in so many press conferences that caused problems. There’s been incidents with police and arrests in Miami. Obviously, I did these things and I regret them. Now I’m keen to show people a different side to my personality.’ – Bernard Tomic

‘It is with enormous regret that I have decided to leave Wish You Were Here?’ after two very happy years as its presenter. It was always my intention to do two years on this wonderful program and now it is time for me to move on to other things.’ – Mary Nightingale

‘I was keen to become a dancer and was studying for it. Somehow, it did not work out and I joined theatre. I do not regret it.’ – Supriya Pathak

‘People sometimes ask me what my biggest regret is in football and it’s not being able to have that ‘Steven Gerrard’ moment where he’s playing for the team that he loves in terms of where he’s from.’ – Jermaine Jenas

‘Not getting picked for the World Cup is my biggest regret, but it was out of my hands. Id love to have known if I was good enough.’ – Dion Dublin

‘I really wanted to be a captain of industry. I worked at Unilever as brand manager for Lynx after university. While I don’t regret leaving, I wish I still had a bit of power.’ – Hugh Dennis

‘As long as youre happy where you are now, you cant really regret anything youve done.’ – Hugh Dennis

‘I think the AFL was capable of beating the NFL in a Super Bowl game as far back as 1960 or ’61. I just regret we didn’t get the chance to prove it.’ – George Blanda

‘We’re separated, and I regret to say that we just don’t seem to hit it off. I don’t know what Betty’s plans are. Perhaps she plans a divorce. As far as I am concerned, that doesn’t fit in with my scheme of things.’ – Jackie Coogan

‘I don’t regret having been fat at all.’ – Gok Wan

‘It’s just not in me to regret being me.’ – Jwala Gutta

‘I don’t really regret anything about my youth.’ – Shaun Ryder

‘I got married at 22, which, at the time, didn’t seem young. I don’t regret it because you can only make the decisions that feel right at the time, otherwise you’ll just be cautious about everything and that’s no way to live.’ – Sarah Millican

‘I have played quite a few roles almost double my age. I don’t regret those decisions and feel proud to have been part of ‘Gandhi My Father’ and ‘Waqt.” – Shefali Shah

‘I’ve neglected my own vanity. Not that I regret it, but looking good is part of my job.’ – Shefali Shah

‘I’ll never regret going on my mission.’ – Shawn Bradley

‘My first-ever social medium was actually MySpace. But my first video ever was on YouTube – that’s when I thought I was a fashion guru – posting fashion stuff. I deleted all of those videos. And I regret doing that today, because I want to look back and see how baduy I was in seventh grade!’ – Bretman Rock

‘When you get older, you are told constantly that you should be there for your parents’ deaths, otherwise you will regret it. But what we are not prepared for is a sudden, brutal death that you are there for, with medical people shouting and things bleeping and your parent gasping for breath.’ – David Baddiel

‘I had to constantly try and fit in it and it really exhausted and tired me. I don’t regret it because that was my learning to learn to come to this point of loving myself unconditionally.’ – Sameera Reddy

‘It’s been a tough journey for me, with a lot of ups and downs but I don’t regret anything.’ – Megan McKenna

‘I regret not being able to mature quicker.’ – Mardy Fish

‘It’s hard to regret stuff. You make decisions and you go with it.’ – Jermaine O’Neal

‘I, personally, have standards that I have set for myself. I’d like to achieve those and look back without regret.’ – Joey Votto

‘I am not being a martyr when I say that I don’t regret putting my career on the backburner.’ – Saira Banu

‘I regret something about every single one of my roles. I always, always have something to regret about them, because I just think I didn’t do well enough with them.’ – Fala Chen

‘And I really felt like I would regret never accomplishing my goals on the beach, or missing special moments with my kids, more than I would miss winning a third gold medal.’ – Karch Kiraly

‘Conservatives generally think it’s best to take enemies at their word, to believe their bombast and threats and make preparations, rather than dismiss them as crackpots and regret it.’ – Neil Macdonald

‘When I prepare for any tournament, I just feel that I want to give my best in the tournament as I may not get the next opportunity and I don’t want to regret it after this tournament.’ – P. R. Sreejesh

‘Unfortunately, neither of my grandfathers were alive by the time I decided I wanted to write a book. I wish I had asked them questions when they were around, but I was too young and it remains a regret to this day.’ – Shweta Bachchan Nanda

‘I wouldn’t change a thing except I wish we could have got back together. That’s my only regret… Being in the Runaways, we were trailblazers, we changed a lot of people’s perspectives on what they could or could not do as females.’ – Cherie Currie

‘I spend a lot of time apologizing for the things I say when I am hungry. That’s why breakfast, for me, is non-negotiable. It’s an insurance policy against saying things I’ll regret before my blood-sugar levels have stabilized.’ – Chris Morocco

‘If you think that people can change… and, if they’ve grown and they’ve expressed contrition or regret, that they should be given a chance, then you should vote for me.’ – John Fetterman

‘I believe it is better to take extra precautions now than to regret later.’ – Rupali Ganguly

‘Everything happens for a reason. Like when Im asked if I regret not taking the next steps as a rugby player. Well, If I had I likely wouldn’t have done what I have in darts.’ – Gerwyn Price

‘I absolutely don’t regret going to Nascar and I’m not finished with it. I intend to be back one day.’ – Dario Franchitti

‘I dont regret for one minute that I only won one trophy because again, to play at Wembley and lift the trophy, how many players can say that? Of course, Id like to have been in contention to win trophies every single year, but I wasnt, but I can sleep easy at night knowing I got the best out of what I had.’ – Robbie Savage

‘I just feel like you’ve got one life to live and you should live it the way you want, and I’ve really enjoyed playing football. It’s been great for my life and my family, and I never want to look back and regret an opportunity to continue playing.’ – Brady Quinn

‘If you find yourself caring about old stories and regret the ways in which they slip out of reach of young audiences, you may well conjure up the means to put these tales into young peoples imaginations.’ – Michael Rosen

‘After ‘Idol,’ I had horrible management. I was getting reality show pilot offers – just to film a few episodes to see how it’d go, for VH1, for Bravo – and my manager wasn’t letting me do any of them. I was auditioning for things like Disney movies instead! I was held back from doing any cool opportunity when the iron was hot, and I regret that.’ – Adore Delano

‘I try to live my life without regrets, but I guess I regret not travelling a bit more.’ – Monica Galetti

‘My only regret is maybe with Nailbomb. And it’s that we didn’t do more. Because that project had the capacity to offer a lot more.’ – Max Cavalera

‘Before I met PK, I had my own swimwear line for five years called Dorit International. I put my company on the back burner when PK and I fell in love and started our family, and I don’t regret doing so for even a minute!’ – Dorit Kemsley

‘This is my only regret in life. I lost my little brother, and my parents very early.’ – Manoj Kumar

‘I have a dozen or so friends who all desperately wanted children but left it too late and now regret all those years leaving it ‘just another six months.” – Julia Hartley-Brewer

‘Ageing is an odd thing, we all have to do it if we’re lucky! So why do we often feel shame, regret or sadness about passing through one window of time, when that is exactly what is meant to happen?’ – Lou Sanders

‘I gave up a lot of money to stay with the Braves four different times and I don’t regret any second of it.’ – John Smoltz

‘I don’t regret or wouldn’t change anything I’ve done financially from the charity giving. The impact that happened there is pretty cool.’ – John Smoltz

‘I regret that I don’t have more fear. If I had, I’d have been more focused. But I’d have had less fun.’ – Richard Bacon

‘I’m always uncomfortable describing being sacked from ‘Blue Peter’ as beneficial because it looks like you’re glorying in it, which I don’t. It’s always something I’ll regret.’ – Richard Bacon

‘I put in enormous time in the gym. I was not going to look back with regret that I should have worked a little harder, listened a little more. When my playing days ended, I never had a regret walking away because I knew I got everything I possibly could out of myself.’ – Billy Donovan

‘Life is always in flux, it is not that I regret anything.’ – Hansi Flick

‘I regret my own parents not teaching me to cook.’ – Tony Adams

‘There’s definitely some regret I didn’t take my career in a more positive way.’ – Nicklas Bendtner

‘I actually don’t regret saying I want to be the best striker in the world, because that’s what everyone wants. It’s just that no one wants to say it.’ – Nicklas Bendtner

‘I’ve got a lot of respect for Parillo. He gets to people in a way that a lot of people don’t. I’ve never worked with him before, we’ve talked about it a bunch of times but he’s one of those three or four coaches in the world that I’ll regret if I never get an opportunity to spend a week or a couple weeks with, just learning.’ – Anthony Smith

‘There have been lots of highs and lows, but I regret nothing. Every single thing that has happened to me has made me greater. I am greater because of those tougher moments.’ – Porsha Williams

‘There’s not a person living that doesn’t regret something.’ – Martin O’Neill

‘My only regret in boxing is that the best fighters won’t fight each other.’ – James Toney

‘What people need to understand is that when I turned pro, I was 21 years old. I’ve definitely done some things I regret. There was a lot of attention on me and it can take years for somebody to mature and learn to deal with that.’ – Jon Rahm

‘I had six really intense months in the capital, it was the regret of my career. I experienced something magical at Roma.’ – Luca Toni

‘Here in Germany I have made errors, which I regret.’ – Luca Toni

‘I am Brazilian and love my country, but I don’t regret playing for Portugal. It was and still is a way of thanking the country for the opportunity it gave me.’ – Deco

‘I would love to have had more children, but it’s not a huge regret when the child I have is so completely fantastic.’ – Geraldine James

‘There’s not a man in there who doesn’t regret it. You’re in there. You’re on your own. Everyone is at their lowest ebb. Prison is a great leveller.’ – Joey Barton

‘I will regret that I wasn’t successful at Rangers but all the negativity of that will help me be successful as a coach.’ – Joey Barton

‘There are things that we all do that we hate about ourselves or that we regret. But it’s about giving yourself grace, forgiving yourself and being kind to yourself. Being truthful and 100 per cent authentically you, I think that’s such a great feeling.’ – Megan Anderson

‘I have friends who are much more famous than me and after a certain age they come to regret it.’ – Jack Savoretti

‘Do I regret saying business should not be first before winning? Absolutely not.’ – Chris Sale

‘Do I regret standing up for what I believe in? Absolutely not.’ – Chris Sale

‘When you give everything, there is nothing to regret.’ – Rodri