Past Caring Quotes

“But perhaps revelation often comes when you’re not looking for it, resolution when you don’t realize you need it.”
― Robert Goddard, Past Caring

“Time cannot erase the sadnesses of life, but it can help us to learn from them the hardest lesson of all: that even one’s mistakes are enriching.”
― Robert Goddard, Past Caring

“I learned a lesson I never had as a politician: that we cannot properly lead those with whom we have not shared suffering.”
― Robert Goddard, Past Caring

“Cambridge in the late sixties was a forcing house for our self-indulgent brand of student chic which held that smoking pot and decrying established ideas was a new and important social development.”
― Robert Goddard, Past Caring

“was irresistible fascination bordering on hopeless infatuation”
― Robert Goddard, Past Caring

“Your version has all the appeal of a skimpy garment on a beautiful woman, Radford — eye-catching, but not much use in bad weather.”
― Robert Goddard, Past Caring

“trance”
― Robert Goddard, Past Caring

“withdrawn smugness of unexplained wealth.”
― Robert Goddard, Past Caring

“mean.” The truth was, I hoped I knew what he meant. “In fact, the Memoir seems so much more real here — more immediate — that I’d like to stay to read it, if that’s all right.” “By all means, Martin. Stay as long as you like. I’ll make sure you’re not disturbed. I hope, though, that you’ll join me for an aperitif before dinner. Alec’s sure to be back by then.” “Thanks. I’d like to.” Sellick left”
― Robert Goddard, Past Caring

“Times”
― Robert Goddard, Past Caring

“The trouble with altering the facts to fit the picture is that it’s a cumulative exercise. It starts as a game — a bit of a lark really. Then it gets serious, then complicated, then . . . then pleasure becomes pain because you find yourself and everyone else believing the charade — living the lie as if it were the truth.”
― Robert Goddard, Past Caring

“We live with the past because we have to, but we don’t have to live in it.”
― Robert Goddard, Past Caring

“learned a lesson I never had as a politician: that we cannot properly lead those with whom we have not shared”
― Robert Goddard, Past Caring