Kem Nunn Quotes

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

For a lot of different reasons I didn't fulfil my potential.

My twenties were a write-off.

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

I sleep till one, and I'm always surprised when someone in blue rinse on a talk show says, 'You're a genius, Mr. Newley, you do so many things.' Tony Newley never realized his potential, did the things he should have done.

Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and which is delayed in the execution.

Between 1972 and 1976, I really didn't do much.

I could have had eight or nine world titles at least, and you do think about that at times.

I don't remember my 20s as a good place.

I feel like I wasted my time in my twenties. When you are beginning to realise your potential you wish you'd realized it earlier.

I don't want to be one of those could have, would have, should have kind of guys.

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.

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting

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

One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of hope and many dreams.