Regret Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start. — Bobby Darin

My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies — C. Wright Mills

No good ever came out of possessing a firearm in a Patsy Cline singing mood. — Brian McGreevy

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. The — W. Somerset Maugham

Sin is ground in the notion of what is there that I want. — Mark Sanford

By the way, whenever an Englishman would cry 'All right!' an American cries 'Go ahead!' which is somewhat expressive of the national character of the two countries. — Charles Dickens

There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

The prostitute is the sum of all types of feminine slavery at once. — Simone De Beauvoir

It had been a damned nice thing - the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life. (Waterloo 18 June 1815)

'I hope to God,' he said one day,'that I have fought my last battle.It is a bad thing to be always fighting.While in the thick of it,I am much too occupied to feel anything;but it is wretched just after.It is quite impossible to think of glory.Both mind and feeling are exhausted.I am wretched even at the moment of victory,and I always say that next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.Not only do you lose those dear friends with whom you have been living,but you are forced to leave the wounded behind you.To be sure one tries to do the best for them,but how little that is!At such moments every feeling in your breast is deadened.I am now just beginning to retain my natural spirits,but I never wish for any more fighting. — Arthur Wellesley

We need alert listeners to give dignity to those stretches in our lives when we are not aware of participating in anything we think might be embraced by the kingdom of God. — Eugene H. Peterson

The only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we've been together and have been partners, the only thing he has ever asked me is: 'Make it great.' — John Lasseter

It's about life, and how cruel it can sometimes be.
How unfair life is.
All of us have a hand in it.
We do what we have to do, take what we have to take, and sometimes we hurt people we swear we won't hurt, but we do, because life makes us. — J.M. Darhower

I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that. — Dee Dee Ramone