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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.

Soren Kierkegaard

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When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn't carry on with it, which I regret.

Emilia Fox

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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Nathan Hale

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Every comedian dreams of hosting 'The Tonight Show' and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.

Conan O'Brien

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The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

Neil Armstrong

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My father told me when I went to college that I needed to take an accounting class. I enrolled and went the first day. I didn't understand a thing that was being said and dropped the class. I really regret that decision. I should have stuck it out and learned the basics of accounting, but I took the easy way out.

Georgina Bloomberg

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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Oliver Goldsmith

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I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

Alice Walker

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Youth is a blunder, Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Benjamin Disraeli

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My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

Stephen Hawking

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Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

George Sand

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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

Samuel Beckett

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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

Yoko Ono

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Speak when you are angry — and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Alphonse Karr

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I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

Queen Latifah

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Swami Sivananda

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If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Jim Carrey

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When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

Eleonora Duse

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My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Woody Allen

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