"That's one of those questions that you think of a better answer for five minutes after you've answered it."

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"That's one of those questions that you think of a better answer for five minutes after you've answered it."

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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

"Don't cry over the shots you've missed, weep over the ones you've not taken at all. The bitterest regrets are for things planned but left undone!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Opportunity, Action, Chance

"Had I known only tells us the regretful stories of yesterday better."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Past, Yesterday, Sorrow

"You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do."

Mark Twain, American Author

Regret, Disappointment, Life, Action

"Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets."

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

Regret, Reflection, Life, Sadness

"The way of sin is physical death of soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Sin, Physical, Death, Soul

"You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn't. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didn't know you could steal your own life. And I didn't know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I think I done the best with it I knew how but it still wasn't mine. It never has been."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Regret, Life, Choice, Loss

"When shall I cease to regret you! When learn to feel a home elsewhere! Oh! Happy house, could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence perhaps I may view you no more! And you, ye well-known trees! but you will continue the same. No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer! No; you will continue the same; unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade! But who will remain to enjoy you?"

Jane Austen, British Writer

Regret, Home, Change, Nature

"Why do we come to the world, only to suffer and depart? This is a unsolved misery."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Regret, World, Misery, Question

"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

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"If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home."

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"Crying will achieve nothing. Only action will."

Determination

"The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability."

Work

"The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth."

Philosophy

"Living the rest of my life in Kerobokan, waiting to die, was what I had in front of me."

Endurance

"They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher."

Adversity

"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."

Experience

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

Regret

"Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to trust everyone."

Trust

"My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges."

Attitude