Umar Quotes

No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future

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• Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • World
  • Character
  • Book

• Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Taken
  • Serious
  • Human

• I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.

  

  Larry King
  • You
  • Better
  • Brooklyn

• I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Question
  • Myself
  • Trust

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Work
  • Important
  • May

• Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Different
  • War
  • motivation

• I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • People
  • Happy
  • Small

• I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Writing
  • Success
  • Day

• My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Start

• Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Control
  • Give
  • Potential

• After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Simple
  • Loss
  • Losing

• I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Political
  • Spiritual
  • Islam

• The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Fire
  • Communication
  • Dead

• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Past
  • Change
  • Peace

• When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Hand
  • Opinion
  • Fence

• I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Wish
  • More
  • I Wish

• The Ricky that the public see, whether it be on screen as a character, in public, or on social media, is very outgoing, and I'm a bit of a class clown. Then those who are closest to me know that I can be very sensitive. I can be quite insecure about myself.

  

  Ricky Whittle
  • Character
  • Media
  • Insecure

• Jerry Cantrell Creeped Out By Facebook, Twitter. NoiseCreep (September 8, 2009).

  

  Jerry Cantrell
  • September

• Todo es nada, pero después, Después de haberlo sufrido todo.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

  

  Don Herold
  • World
  • Work

• I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Father
  • Photography
  • Genes

• No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future

  

  Umar
  • Future
  • Past
  • Worry