A Quote by Samuel Johnson

That what cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.

Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson
English - Writer
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

There are some mechanisms that are so—so broken that they cannot be repaired.

Cassandra Clare

A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

Ursula K. Le Guin

To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.

Sam Worthington

Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.

Pete Townshend

The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?

Jean de La Fontaine

Are you a man?'' The question slipped out, and she regretted it. Regretted injecting reality into this delicate, lovely dream of passion. ''I thought I had conclusively proved my manhood to you. Shall I do it again?

Christina Dodd

I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there.

Carol Burnett

I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.

Jack Welch

I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've often regretted not trying something really big, because you'll never know.

Dean Kamen

That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity.

Umberto Eco

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Robert Southey

Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired.

Terry Eagleton

I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.

Umar

Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.

Lisa Kleypas

I regret things all the time. I've never regretted not saying something. I've only regretted saying something.

Chrissy Teigen

The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.

Samuel Johnson

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