"I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me"

-- Jamie Ford

#Past Quotes #Trying Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.”
“There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.”

Source : Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”
“The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.”
“I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us - and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all.”
“I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.”
“No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.”
“I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.”
“Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. Its so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such an amazing way. Even silly things, like the fact that all of my pictures on my cell phone used to be of me at photo shoots - conceited, I know! - but now every single picture on my phone is of Mason.”

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