"But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along."

-- Allison Winn Scotch

#Regret Quotes #Asking Yourself Why Quotes #Answers Quotes

“There's a huge emotional component to weight loss.”
“Those of us who have the duty of training the rising generation of doctors...must not inseminate the virgin minds of the young with the tares of our own fads. It is for this reason that it is easily possible for teaching to be too 'up to date'. It is always well, before handing the cup of knowledge to the young, to wait until the froth has settled.”

Source : British Medical Journal 1: 995 (1925)
“You have to smile. Smile like you're really excited.”
“But in our time women are no longer subject to the will of men. Quite the contrary. They have been given every opportunity to win their independence and if, after all this time, they still have not liberated themselves and thrown off their shackles, we can only arrive at one conclusion: there are no shackles to throw off.”

Source : Esther Vilar (2005). “The Manipulated Man”, p.17, Pinter & Martin Publishers
“As lovers of truth, we want to be close to it. Sometimes - evil thought, evil temptation - we want to be close to it by misleading others about its presence.”
“I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.”
“Don't drink alone, Scarlett. People always find out and it ruins your reputation.”

Source : Sidney Coe Howard (1980). “GWTW, the screenplay”, Macmillan Pub Co
“Well, the real sex organ is between the ears, not between the legs”

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