“If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 118 of 169
“fate is strange.. almost no one i know married the first love of their lives. but for those who did are always telling me that they missed soemthing important, that they didn’t experience all that they might have.." - by the river piedra i sat down and wept”
“When you close that door to nowhere throw away the key, we have a tendency to look back and regret”
“No one should let themselves get used to anything.”
“Using your car as a weapon and impenetrable armor.”
“If you say it was the "last" time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was "the most recent time I was here".”
“If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.”
“They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.”
“The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven.”
“... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.”
“If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.”
“Ninety-eight percent are boxes, which tells me that a lot of people are in denial. We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.”
“I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush.”
“Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates were secured by increasing the bonded debt for current expenses or refusing to keep our institutions up to the standard in repairs, extensions, equipment, and accommodations. I refuse, and the Republican Party refuses, to endorse that method of sham and shoddy economy.”
“Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.”
“How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.”
“Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!”
“The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.”
“I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.”
“The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.”