Pastoral Resources

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.

The effort required by your endeavor now is not as hard as dealing with your regret later.

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one.

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions.

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.

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.

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

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.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

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

I regret all of my books.

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

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

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 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.