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Are you a man?'' The question slipped out, and she regretted it. Regretted injecting reality into this delicate, lovely dream of passion. ''I thought I had conclusively proved my manhood to you. Shall I do it again? -- Christina Dodd
I never regretted what I turned down. -- Angela Lansbury
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. -- George Halas
The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted. -- William Graham Sumner
No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did. -- Sydney Pollack
I regret things all the time. I've never regretted not saying something. I've only regretted saying something. -- Chrissy Teigen
I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. -- Julia Roberts
I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs. -- Linus Torvalds
I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren. -- Mitt Romney
It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career. -- Farrah Fawcett
I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there. -- Carol Burnett
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. -- Andrew Jackson
Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration. -- Hideki Tojo
I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down. -- Virgil Thomson
I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else. -- Robert Smith
I've had some pretty good arguments with people, but I've never regretted it. I've had people come up where it's all emotion and no fact. That's always sad. -- Patton Oswalt
I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since. -- Walter Cronkite
If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it. -- Tim Gunn
It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you're too big and fat to do anything else.' Well, I took his advice. It was a quick way to get to the big leagues, and I've never regretted it. -- Joe Torre
My father wasn't too crazy about me. I loved him anyway. One of the things I regretted for a long time was that he died before he could see that he would be proud of me. I was actually more what he wished for than he thought. -- Mike Nichols
During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted. -- Dee Dee Myers
I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I've heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last. -- David Bowie
Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
I did 'Degrassi' for five years in Toronto, and I made the decision to quit the show to go to theatre school, which a lot of people thought I was really crazy to do, but it was one of those major decisions in my life that I haven't regretted - hopefully I won't! I really wanted to go to school. -- Jake Epstein
I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted. -- Betty White
I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night. -- Mark Wahlberg
I've never regretted a swim -- Joseph Murray
I've never made something I've regretted -- Rod Humble
Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted. -- Aravind Adiga
I never once regretted doing "True Detective". -- Colin Farrell
I've never regretted anything I've ever done. -- Jimmy Page
I've always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago. -- John Travolta
Nobody whoever gave their best ever regretted it. -- George Halas
Every time I've built character, I've regretted it. -- Bill Watterson
Decisions made quickly were almost always regretted quickly. -- Nora Roberts
What cannot be repaired is not to be regretted. -- Samuel Johnson
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Xenocrates
...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience. -- S. E. Hinton
I have often regretted having spoken, never having kept silent -- Publilius Syrus
That what cannot be repaired is not to be regretted. -- Samuel Johnson
Nobody who has ever given his best has regretted it. -- George Halas
I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies. -- Stanislav Grof
I have never regretted erring on the side of withholding information. -- Mindy Kaling
Every time I've strayed from the beaten path I've never regretted it. -- Tori Murden
I have never, ever, EVER met anyone who's regretted following their heart. -- Marie Forleo
Don't make me regret this", I said breathless. "You haven't regretted me once. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica. -- Jason Newsted
I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk. -- Otto von Bismarck
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid? -- Audre Lorde
I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted. -- Richard Schiff
I will always put family first. Every time I haven't, I have regretted it and apologised. -- Andrew Forrest
Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Obediance, when it flows out of genuine love for Jesus Christ, is never wasted and never regretted. -- Leslie Ludy
I've always regretted the fact that I've never formally studied and learned the mechanics of writing music. -- Stan Getz
I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that [do] matter. -- Ric Elias
I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet! -- Julian Lennon
I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down. -- Virgil Thomson
I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again. -- Umar
I've learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough. -- Jack Welch
The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire. -- Chalmers Johnson
No one looks back and regrets leaving this world. What's regretted is how real we thought it was. -- Rumi
I regretted not being a person in shape many a day while we were making this film [Swiss Army Man]. -- Paul Dano
There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life. -- Heather Mills
My grandparents came worked hard, and I believe they never regretted their decision to come here and make a new start. -- Samuel Alito
He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine. -- Melina Marchetta
The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends. -- Czeslaw Milosz
I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them. -- Nora Ephron
There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it. -- Katharine Hepburn
Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things. -- James F. Cooper
Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration -- Hideki Tojo
Probably the most important piece of advice that I've ever gotten is to develop your mind. I left school very young and I always regretted it. -- Stephanie Seymour
...no one who has passed through the storm has ever regretted the journey. No one stands here and wishes to go back to the other side. -- Glenn Beck
in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well. -- Nicholas Sparks
I have never met an old saint who regretted having spent too much time in prayer, but I have met many who regretted having spent too little! -- Paul Washer
I have never regretted our foolhardiness. Of course, we made mistakes, endless mistakes, but at least they were our own, just as the garden was our own. -- Margery Fish
There was more than one type of guilt. You might do something horrible that you later regretted. But you could also feel guilty for something you'd not done! -- Joseph Delaney
Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken. -- Lisa Kleypas
We ran three cars last year. Unfortunately, as time went on, we did have to let a few people go, which we regretted, but just because of the situation. -- Bobby Rahal
Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret. -- Anthony Trollope
don't make me regret this" I said, breathless. " You haven't regretted me once". He kissed me, and I answered so hungrily I thought my lips would bruise. Patch&Nora ( p. 180) -- Becca Fitzpatrick
I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible. -- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance. -- Hermann Hesse
Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I've spent on friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and causes I believe in. -- Sam Altman
My father had a similar saying. He said that in heaven there's a huge cake reserved solely for married people who've never once regretted getting married. The cake's never been touched. -- Bernardo Atxaga
I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it. -- E. O. Wilson
misgivings, n.Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us. "There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more. -- David Levithan
Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace? -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease, protected by my neurosis which, through writing, gave me happiness. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity. -- Umberto Eco
I don't buy a lot of things. I like to create things. I've been lucky enough to be able to build my beautiful island in the Caribbean. I certainly haven't regretted that. -- Richard Branson
We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped. -- Charles Dickens
Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in 'E.T.' My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can't go anywhere. -- Henry Thomas
I believed that doing what the other person wanted was love. I did that, and for more than a thousand years I have regretted it. I don't want to repeat the same mistake. -- Kim Dong-joo
Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted. -- Samuel Johnson
I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense. -- Charles Darwin
I've never regretted I was born too soon. I'm proud to be a child of the twentieth century. I'm satisfied to join its ranks on our side and fight for a new world... -- Naz?m Hikmet
By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers. -- Donald Cram
I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I've never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and I think it's great that they keep people interested in literature. -- James Frey
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At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted. -- Wynn Bullock

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