"Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present."

-- Sammy Davis, Jr.

#Regret Quotes #Wish Quotes #Tactics Quotes

“Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.”

Source : Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The progress of a biographer”
“The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Donâ€™t listen to themâ€”listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.”
“Some call it evolution, And others call it God.”
“And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.”
“When my wife and I leave California, I want to have my marriage recognized in Nevada, Arizona, all the way to New York. How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?”
“Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.”

Source : Marjorie Bowen (1938). “World's Wonder and Other Essays”
“It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.”

Source : Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.90, Seven Stories Press
“Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child...”

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