Regretful Quotes — Page 29

Author, Motivational Speaker

“You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it.”

Inspirational Regret Appreciation

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Salvador Dali

Artist, Surrealist

“Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.”

Habit Democratic Revelations

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William S. Burroughs

Writer

“Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.”

Trying Change

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Orson Welles

Director, Actor, Producer

“I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out”

People Rocks

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Stephen Harper

Politician

“But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people.”

People Believe Government

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist

“But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.”

Sex Wall Women

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Harlan Ellison

Author

“I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and provincial prejudices. It is not my job to lull you with a false sense of the rightness of the universe. This wonderful and terrible occupation of recreating the world in a different way, each time fresh and strange, is an act of revolutionary guerrilla warfare. I stir the soup. I inconvenience you. I make your nose run and your eyes water.”

Running Jobs Responsibility

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George A. Romero

Filmmaker

“I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.”

Next Revolution Zombie

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

“If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.”

People Poverty Distribution Of Wealth

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Calvin Johnson

Football Player

“There are among us those that would criticize our Confederate ancestors. Would you allow a stranger to come into your house and criticize your little ones? I say it's not whether we should be ashamed of our fathers and mothers of the Old Confederacy. I say it's a question of whether they should be ashamed of us.”

Mother Father House

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Seamus Heaney

Poet, Playwright

“At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.”

Home Attitude Figure Skating

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Jim Brown

Football Player

“Money has changed today's black athletes. Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities and how much money they can make.”

Men Careers Athlete

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Quotes for When You Feel Regretful