Nancy Grace Quotes

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

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

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.

Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced - because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.

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

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.

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.

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

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

When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.

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

You cannot look back and think what if.

With any possibly erroneous decision, you can always look back and think you could've done something differently - but always with the benefit of hindsight.

One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.

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.

No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at the wrong time, the wrong place at the right time, always just missing each other, always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out. That's what the story boils down to, I think. A series of lost chances. All the pieces were there from the beginning, but no one knew how to put them together.

And all the trips you know you missed And all the lips you never kissed Cut through you like a knife. And now you see stretched out before thee Just another story of a life.

Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.

I never went to college. I think about it a lot. I can't watch a game without thinking where I would have been if I had ga head and went to college and pursued my career.

Regrets are born of paths never taken.

I've never been offered a job that I turned down and regretted. I didn't have Stanley Kubrick offer me something and me say no.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.