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It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

I regret all of my books.

Zora Neale Hurston

I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.

Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

William Henry Hudson

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

Laurence Housman

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

J. Edgar Hoover