Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

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 was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

So little of what could happen does happen.

The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.

Reading is good, action is better.

Don't mistake movement for achievement.

Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.

Success ... seems to be connected with action.

We are all guilty of the good we did not do

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.

Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.

I hate the word 'potential'-potential means you haven't gotten it done.

Someday is a dis-ease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.

The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

Any action is better than no action at all.