Umar Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Silence is also conversation.
-
I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.
-
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
-
In terms of relationships, I've had two failures, although I don't like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I've always said that I am a much loved woman.
-
I don't believe in regret.
-
I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
-
Silence is my dignity.
-
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
-
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
-
I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
-
I've done a lot of things that I regret.
-
I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.
-
I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.
-
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
-
I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
-
I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.
-
It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.
-
I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.
-
Let me sit here, on the threshold of two worlds. Lost in the eloquence of silence.
-
To want your own way is a very bad habit, for you will never get it.
-
If I have a cause, it's the cause of the teacher.
-
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
-
I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.
