“Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently!”
Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) American writer
Eighteenth Week.
My Summer in a Garden (1870)
Source: The Best of Me
“Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently!”
Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) American writer
Eighteenth Week.
My Summer in a Garden (1870)
Vladimir Putin (1952) President of Russia, former Prime Minister
Interview with German television channel ARD and ZDF, May 2005. Kremlin, RU, http://archive.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2005/05/05/2355_type82912type82916_87597.shtml (May 2005) <br class="br">2000 - 2005
“There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 111
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Ah, não há saudades mais dolorosas do que as das coisas que nunca foram!
“I took pleasure when I could… I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.”
Jeanne Calment (1875–1934) French supercentenarian who had the longest confirmed human life span in history
Source: Time, March 6, 1995, p. 85
“It has never been my nature, I regret to admit to the House, to turn the other cheek.”
Denis Healey (1917–2015) British Labour Party politician and Life peer
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1974/dec/18/the-economy in the House of Commons (18 December 1974) <br class="br">1970s
Paul Scholes (1974) English footballer
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/xavi-only-regret-not-playing-7572289
Xavi
Nicholas Sparks book Dear John
Variant: I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about journey, maybe, but not the destination.
Source: Dear John