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Regrettable was the gallantry of great men who risked themselves for others. -- Michelle Franklin
Both of us are known for probably at times regrettable streak of independence. -- David Kay
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them. -- Francis Parker Yockey
Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree. -- Richard Dawkins
I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing. -- Bob Newhart
There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia in our culture. It's regrettable, it's stupid, it's heartless, and it's immoral, but there it is. -- Rupert Everett
There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality. -- Sam Harris
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. -- Peter T. King
I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable. -- Bob Newhart
But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history. -- Xavier Becerra
We attacked selected military targets of the P.L.O. Around, civilians were hurt, I don't want to deny it. Very regrettable, very regrettable. We regret it deeply. -- Menachem Begin
There are some people in politics and in the press who can't be confused by the facts. They just will not live in an evidence-based world. And that's regrettable. -- Hillary Clinton
Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him. -- Robert Creeley
A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was. -- Jeffrey Kluger
The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin. -- Jules Verne
Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake. -- Anthony Weiner
There is no such thing as a regrettable act of courage. -- Tammy Rosenfeld
Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable. -- Diana Gabaldon
There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation. -- Robert Breault
This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided. -- Gary Bettman
Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable. -- William S. Burroughs
I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable. -- Larry Wall
It is a regrettable, but undeniable, fact that the most delightful people are seldom big money-makers. -- Marjorie Hillis
It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten. -- Charles Baudelaire
Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in. -- Janeane Garofalo
I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?" "A regrettable choice of words," muttered Magnus. -- Cassandra Clare
It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression. -- Henry Ford
Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God. -- Max Lucado
I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery ... -- Dorothy Cottrell
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them -- Francis Parker Yockey
There was certainly a dishonesty there that I think is totally regrettable and inexcusable. The ringleading, the bullying: not totally true. -- Lance Armstrong
When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true. -- Harry S. Truman
There is no justice, and great harm, in diminishing the whole array of future opportunity to save a few people now from a regrettable fate. -- Will Wilkinson
It is truly regrettable that a person will treat a man who is valuable to him well, and a man who is worthless to him poorly. -- Hojo Shigetoki
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. -- Peter T. King
Well my own impression of my musical pieces is that no matter how long I've been at it, there's not much improvement. So that's kind of regrettable. -- Nobuo Uematsu
But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nations history. -- Xavier Becerra
The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity. -- Eric Hobsbawm
Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere. -- Theodore Sturgeon
THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all -- Richard Dawkins
The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it all very regrettable, to say the least. -- Steven Weinberg
When in a fight to the death, one wants to employ all one's weapons to the utmost. I must say that to die with one's sword still sheathed is most regrettable. -- Miyamoto Musashi
This is regrettable indeed for a nation that aspires to teach democracy to other nations, because, as Burke said: "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." -- J. William Fulbright
I understand it. People are very willing to say things about me, to make accusations about me that are - I don't get upset about them anymore, but they are very regrettable. -- Hillary Clinton
Fenworth!' Yes?' You bore me with your prattle.' Oh, regrettable that. Why don't you seek the company of someone who doesn't prattle? Seems like a good solution to your problem. -- Donita K. Paul
I simply don't want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look like a bear and live in a cave; but you should worry. -- Randall Jarrell
Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along. -- E. M. Forster
The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend. -- Lewis H. Lapham

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