Abba Eban Quotes

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I was maybe too quick to leave Fulham.

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.'

I never regretted what I turned down.

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

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

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.

Historians often find important decisions few knew were important at the time.

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.

I've turned down all sorts of good things accidentally, too. I read the script for 'Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind' and thought, 'This makes no sense.' Then I went to the cinema to see it. Well, what an idiot.

Hindsight is, of course, 20/20. Any time you go back, and you look at something, and now you've got the result of something, you say, 'Yeah, maybe it wasn't the right idea.'

I could have joined West Brom or Brighton. What would have happened had I joined one of them? I do not want to think about it. I do not think about it.

Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.

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

It is something if circumstances were repeated I would not do again.

For many years I have known a good deal about international arbitrations and I have never known of one in which both nations in controversy did not benefit more from having the question between them settled than either gained from a favorable judgment or lost by an unfavorable one.

When I think about the stuff I've turned down or the stuff I wasn't interested in, I don't have any regrets. Yes, there were some movies that went on to be really popular. But now, how do they really fit into things?

Given the opportunity, I might change a choice I made, but you can't regret making what you thought was the best decision at the time.

I took a lot of wrong decisions, and got talked into a lot of things. Of course, if I could go back in time, I might change some things, but wouldn't everyone? I have no regrets.

I probably would do over the Tom Cruise interview because I've thought of so many things I would have said in hindsight.

There have been films I have said no to and there are roles that I wish I had done.

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

I think the last thing you want in life is to live with regret.

Nowadays, kids need promises to play. And I'm not gonna lie, I almost went to Mississippi. But that's the best thing I did, when I changed my mind and went to Miami.