Charles Dickens Quotes, Regret Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

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I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

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I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.

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Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?

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Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.

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The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

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Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

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I don't miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.

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For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

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I don't regret the fervor, because I do believe, in the African American community but also for other communities, and I know from talking to people, for communities around the world, the election of an African American to the most powerful office on Earth meant things had changed, and not just in superficial ways. That in some irreversible way the world was different.

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The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

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For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Children Quotes , Regret Quotes

Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

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When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

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I regret not finding Osama Bin Laden.

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To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.

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I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

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One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.

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