Pastoral Resources

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

It's not like he called me up and asked me. They've never wanted to throw us into that world, and I think our decision probably shocked them. But I love my dad, and I think I'd regret it if I didn't do this.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I'm going to regret it.

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.

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

I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn't I become an actress? or Why did I just go paddling along after John? I've always walked along right by his side, and he's always supported everything I do.

I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.