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  • He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Confused Quotes , Past Quotes
  • During the course of my presidency crime has been the lowest it's been probably since the '60s. Butyou wouldn't know it if you were watching TV or looking at the internet, and you certainly wouldn't know it, listening to this past [Donald Trump's] campaign.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Past Quotes , Listening Quotes
  • Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism; it has again and again in the past repressed fanatical and cruel exaggerations of asceticism. Catholicism is not mere mysticism; it is even now defending human reason against the mere mysticism of the Pragmatists.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Fighting Quotes , Past Quotes
  • Never carry things on from the past. The past is gone. Every moment be rid of it, solved or unsolved. Drop it - and don't carry parts because those parts won't allow you to solve new problems that live in this moment. Live in this moment as totally as possible, and suddenly you will come to realized, that if you live it totally, it is solved. There is no need to solve it. Life is not a problem to be solved, it's a mystery to be lived.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Rajneesh Quotes , Past Quotes , Needs Quotes
  • Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they found Him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes , Christian Quotes , Past Quotes
  • Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Past Quotes , Order Quotes