"There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service."

Regret, War, Service, Reality

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"There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service."

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"A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Regret, Truth, Word, Life

"It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Regret, Sadness, Loss, Impact

"You can't lose sleep over should-of's and could-of's."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Regret, Sleep, Peace, Mind

"All people at root are time optimists. We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'."

Fredrik Backman, Swedish Author

Regret, Time, Relationship, Word

"Sometimes you do not like the situation. But you have to endure for awhile."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Situation, Patience, Strength

"She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything."

Nick Hornby, English Writer

Regret, Emotion, Pattern, Reflection

"Whoever hates, harm."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Hate, Harm, Anger, Negativity

"We have left undone those things which we ought to have done and we have done those things which we ought not to have done."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Regret, Action, Behavior, Mistakes

"Sin is shameful action."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Sin, Action, Morality

"I wanted to wash away our past misgivings in those tears that would run from our eyes and weave a new start by folding her in my arms.I wanted to, but I did not!"

Faraaz Kazi, Indian Author

Regret, Love, Longing, Tears

Explore more quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?"

Mortality

"A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field."

Reality

"If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong."

Politics

"He's an honest politician--he stays bought."

Politics

"God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good-and is no sillier than any other theology."

Theology

"The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history."

Skepticism

"Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times."

Art

"Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run."

Simplicity

"I'm too much old-timer to be rude to a woman no matter what - they have so much of what we have none of."

Respect

"That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies, I just work here."

Religion