I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
I have often regretted having spoken, never having kept silent
I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk.
. . . but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
My mother thought my inclinations would do well in Law, but I was too shy and deliberative - slowfooted - for that, so I determined to be an English and German high school teacher. In my first year of university I had one subject to "fill in" and chose philosophy against the advice of my counselor. My university teachers in English and German were totally uninspiring; philosophy was wonderful and my results showed it. I chose it and basically backed into a situation in which only a philosophy career seemed a viable option. I've never regretted it, but there was a lot of serendipity.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
I've never been offered a job that I turned down and regretted. I didn't have Stanley Kubrick offer me something and me say no.
That what cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.
Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.
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.
I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.
Differences in political opinions are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary; but it is exceedingly to be regretted that subjects cannot be discussed with temper on the one hand, or decisions submitted to without having the motives, which led to them, improperly implicated on the other; and this regret borders on chagrin when we find that men of abilities, zealous patriots, having the same general objects in view, and the same upright intentions to prosecute them, will not exercise more charity in deciding on the opinions and actions of one another.
Nobody whoever gave their best ever regretted it.
I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that [do] matter.
The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (. . . )The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.
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.
There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
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.
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
