Elin Hilderbrand Quotes

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.

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.

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

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

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.

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

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

An emotion that lives with me is a sense of 'what might have been' had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.

We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

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 missed a lot of decisions. At the time of making such a decision, there was no doubt in my mind as to its correctness. However, a second or two later I felt that I erred and wished I could change my original ruling.

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might 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 look back upon my times when more people were listening to what I had to say, and I didn't say enough.