“When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.”
Regretful feeling
Regretful Quotes — page 146 of 169
“There are things I've done in the past I'm not proud of - and I could talk about them if I wanted to - but I don't reveal my secrets... I prefer certain things to remain personal; there have to be boundaries. And I don't think you need a scandal to have an interesting story.”
“I guess I do feel the need to repent. I do feel like I owe the world a great album. I don't know why I feel that way. I just do.”
“'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.”
“I do not believe in a label on a shirt or a dress should tell me that I can't wear a T-shirt or a pant because it should say "women's"or "men's" on it, you know? That's just not how it should work.”
“On network, you have limitations for how raunchy it can get and how violent it can get.”
“The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.”
“Making records is not how it used to be! #stillwerking”
“I don't care anymore if people dress like me, now I want them to think like me.”
“Obviously, my tastes and my priorities have changed. But I'm still asking the question 'Why?' Just because I'm a mother doesn't mean I'm not still a rebel and that I don't want to go in the face of convention and challenge the system. I never wanted to think in a robotic way, and I don't want my children to think that way, either.”
“You're so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret.”
“And then, going to high school, I saw how popular girls had to behave to get the boys. I knew I couldn't fit into that. So I decided to do the opposite. I refused to wear makeup, to have a hairstyle. I refused to shave. I had hairy armpits.”
“I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married.”
“The ultimate moment where I most felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told they were going to arrest anyone who was openly or obviously gay and they came to my shows and I spoke out against the government.”
“Is it exciting to have a codified identity, which then gets a codified set of rights and recognitions and visibility? Are we supposed to take it from there, within the same system? Or are we trying to upset the table before we want a place at it?”
“An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.”
“I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.”
“Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.”
“It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.”
“No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.”