“The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.”
Regretful feeling
Regretful Quotes — page 164 of 169
“It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.”
“I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long.”
“I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.”
“Regret is distress over a desire unfulfilled or an action performed or not performed.”
“As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution.”
“I was a Republican until I got to New York and had to live on $18 a week. It was then that I became a Democrat.”
“I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.”
“Kink isn't a crime; conspiring with a foreign power to commit espionage, fix election is. Stay focused.”
“The question is whether NGOs that bring protection or aid or reparation therapies are furthering the possibility of self-determination or extending a form of managerial power and paternalism.”
“Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.”
“It is clear that whatever language of democracy Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests.”
“What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the convergence of the two in forms of gender policing that [is] tyrannical and destructive.”
“You can become so manipulated and controlled by what you think other people expect you to do that you literally live under the tyranny of other people's expectations. And what I call the shoulds and the oughts. I believe that hundreds of thousands of people miss their God-ordained destiny and they never really feel satisfied, content and fulfilled, because they're so busy trying to keep everybody else satisfied with them that they don't ever get around to doing what they really want to do.”
“Entertainment is like any other major industry; it's cold, big business. The business end wants to know one thing: Can you do the job? If you can, you're in, you're made; if you can't, you're out.”
“I took the easy way, and to an extent I regret that. Still, though, the way we did it was honest. We played it and sang it the way we felt it, and there's a lot to be said for that.”
“All Politicians should be required to wear uniforms like Racing Car Drivers with patches showing the donations received from special interest groups so we know who has paid them off!”
“This is the Homosexuality Is An Abomination Club, right?”
“Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.”
“When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?”