A Quote by Umberto Eco

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

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Umberto Eco
Italian - Novelist
January 5, 1932 - February 19, 2016

I have never met an old saint who regretted having spent too much time in prayer, but I have met many who regretted having spent too little!

Paul Washer

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 have often regretted having spoken, never having kept silent.

Publilius Syrus

I've never regretted not having kids.

Jane Fallon

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

Robert Smith

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

The term ‘quadrilateral’ does not occur in the Wesley corpus – and more than once, I have regretted having coined it for contemporary use, since it has been so widely misconstrued

Albert Outler

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

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

Umar

Our break-up had been a resounding anti-climax. I wanted to be wept over, bitterly. I wanted to be fought for. Mourned, or regretted just a little. I wanted to feel like I was someone who'd been worth having in the first place.

Catherine Sanderson

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

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

Robert A. Heinlein

I remember, on the medevac helicopter, I said to myself, "I am not f - - g dying in Afghanistan." People talk about having flashbacks; I began having flash-forwards. I began thinking of all the things I still wanted to do.

Giles Duley

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