“Regret is something you’ve got to just live with, you can’t drink it away. You can’t run away from it. You can’t trick yourself out of it. You’ve just got to own it.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 101 of 169
“I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal.”
“Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?”
“Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.”
“To pretend like Hollywood is anything other than that is disingenuous. #OscarsSoWhite is trendy, but for women filmmakers and filmmakers of color, it's not a trend. This is our reality, and it's important that we do something to change it.”
“We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.”
“The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.”
“I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy.”
“Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others.”
“There's something I want you to know,' said Cherryl, her voice taut and harsh, 'so that there won't be any pretending about it. I'm not going to put on the sweet relative act. I know what you've done to Jim and how you've made him miserable all his life. I'm going to protect him against you. I'll put you in your place. I'm Mrs. Taggart. I'm the woman in this family now.' 'That's quite all right,' said Dagny. 'I'm the man.”
“The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.”
“In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.”
“I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it.”
“Not One Tiny Slice of that Guilt will Do Anything to Change a Single Thing in the Past”
“I dont really believe in regrets.”
“Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face.”
“Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.”
“So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.”
“The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.”
“When it's time for the revolution, I'm a click, click, click.”