“The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don't feel good all the time. There's a lot of down, a lot of misery.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 119 of 169
“Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.”
“growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.”
“My policy is to have no policy.”
“We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself.”
“But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.”
“Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.”
“It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.”
“There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot. To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England. I don't know - I'm not American. But I think the majority of American teenagers don't want to be the freak.”
“Live now; be damn'd hereafter.”
“I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.”
“One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.”
“The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.”
“Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.”
“The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.”
“Now that I'm almost forty, I look back at some of the decisions I made when I was younger - decisions that I thought of as courageous, or generous, or otherwise befitting a writer; befitting someone who had taken it as their life's goal to understand the human condition - and I wish I could go back in time and be like, "Hey, you don't actually have to do that - you're allowed to look out for yourself a little bit."”
“I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.”
“Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.”
“We can change our wives,” he said. “We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team.”
“You're right . . . you can't go back. No matter how much you want to, you never can”