Vincent Janssen Quotes

The chance you passed up or missed could have had any number of different outcomes, and it's easy to fantasize about how much better every one of those outcomes would have been.

I don't regret what I've done but some of the things I didn't do.

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

You can't regret the life you didn't lead.

Sometimes I think I should have stayed longer and I should have done more films.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

It is always awfully easy to say what she would have done after you haven’t done it

I think you regret the things that you don't do more than the things you do.

In many cases, if we knew what it would take, we might have thought twice about it, so it's often wonderful that we don't have hindsight.

You cannot look back and think what if.

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.

It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.

You always think "woulda, coulda, shoulda." I wish that I had prosecuted Tot Mom, I wish I'd prosecuted OJ, and I wish I had prosecuted the JonBenet Ramsey case.

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.

Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can't truly judge how right that decision was.

You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.