Betty White

I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.

American Actress

Jennifer Lopez

I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, 'I wish this didn't happen.' It's part of who I am. There's nothing in my life that's so ugh.

American Musician

C. S. Lewis

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

British Writer

Tom Holland

I think, from every actor I've ever spoken to, they say the biggest thing they regret from life is not finishing school.

English Actor

Andrew Jackson

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

American President

Henry David Thoreau

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

American Author

Yoko Ono

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

American Artist

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

Woody Allen

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

American Director

Drew Barrymore

Used when reflecting on actions you've done that you wish you hadn't.

Past Actions

Use it to talk about lost chances or things you didn't do but wish you had.

Missed Opportunities

Often used to emphasize personal responsibility and guilt about the past.

Emphasize Feelings

As a noun, it's a way to share feelings of sadness or apology.

Expressing Sadness

Use 'regret' to show you understand and feel sorry about someone's misfortune.

Convey Sympathy

Commonly used in formal situations to apologize in a respectful and solemn way.

Formal Apologies

Shows that as soon as you did something, you wished you hadn't.

Immediate Regret

A way to decline offers or invitations with politeness and empathy.

Polite Rejection

Used formally in business or official communications to express negative news.

Professional Setting

 is that they're even more afraid of failing to try. They know you can fail by starting a business that goes bankrupt or by failing to start a business at all. They know that in the long run, our biggest regrets are not our actions but our inactions. The things we wish we could redo, if you look at the science, are the chances not taken.

The surprising habits of...

 don't regret it because I'm I'm still functioning and you learn from it the moments when you get the shot everything conspires to make it work they're very rare but they're worth waiting for when that moment finally arrives and the light turns on the behavior happens the iceberg flows faster the right angle it

What Does It Take To Be...

 Those rearing clouds begin to neigh a whole universe of auricular cities. Listen if it rains while regret and disdain weep to an ancient music. Listen to the bonds fall off which hold you above and below." Each calligram is intended to allow readers to unchain themselves from the regular experience of poetry,

The poet who painted...

 Prometheus was to be chained to a cliff for eternity. Each day, he would be visited by a vulture who would tear out his liver and each night his liver would grow back to be attacked again in the morning. Although Prometheus remained in perpetual agony, he never expressed regret at his act of rebellion.

The myth of Prometheus -...

 which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets. This idea is nicely captured by this

Kathryn Schulz: Don't...

 These prizes illustrated his lifelong commitment to sciences and his passion for literature. But what about peace? Because Nobel's name was tied to inventions used in the war industry, many have assumed that he created the peace prize out of regret.

How does the Nobel Peace...

 asking here you got involved in this fad gosh a couple decades ago about Salman Rushdie and you were reported as having supporting the fatwa against him I mean do you regret how that played out I regret the question

A message of peace, hope...

 do you regret sparking the sort of storm of excitement overdose and you know where it's gone or i mean i think deutsche is fun and you know i've always said don't bet the form of dogecoin uh fyi yeah

Elon Musk talks Twitter,...

 must be right i cannot and i will not regret what i have said i cannot act against my conscience luther says not many in the audience have heard the

A Fun, Animated History...

 Of course, life is full of surprises. Not a day goes by that I'm not reminded of my mistake, and I regret that mistake deeply.