“We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.”
Regretful feeling
Regretful Quotes — page 151 of 169
“This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience.”
“I think it is outrageous - to lock people's money away and change the rules on them. So, on point of principle, I stopped putting money into my pension.”
“I now consider the money I put into my pension to have been a mistake.”
“A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same -- scandal.”
“I'm not willing to sign a contract. They want everything. They want the rights to do the movie and everything else they can think of, forever. There's no limit to the contract. In this universe and universes to be discovered - I'm not making this up - this is in the contract.”
“Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.” “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?” “The way you tell it, it is.”
“You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.”
“There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries.”
“I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.”
“I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.”
“We forgive but not forgotten”
“There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed and our society thoroughly democratized.”
“If you want to preach a revolutionary message, wear a suit.”
“This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.”
“If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]”
“Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.”
“But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?”
“Just remember that forgiveness is so much easier than regret.”
“I am sure some people will say I am a killjoy for taking away the right of those men who wish to pay for sex, but I do not think it is inevitable for men to pay for sex.”