"When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present."

-- Dan Harris

#Past Quotes #Feet Quotes

“We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.”

Source : "Gingrich and Limbaugh: Poor Privileged White Men Grappling with Sotomayor" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2009.
“I have an amazing relationship with my wife, but sometimes there are arguments. It happens.”
“I'm older now, and I been through that, like, 'Stop. Tell the truth, what I need to do?' And I think that's important, as far as artist, for me to stand for what I believe in, And a lot of times people don't like that, you know what I'm saying. You become a troubled artist, or, 'You don't listen,' but as long as I say 'Yeah, I'll do it!' I'm a good person.”

Source : Source: www.parlemag.com
“I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own. "Holmes, ever the romantic. Mrs. Hudson would be pleased.”

Source : Laurie R. King (2010). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice”, p.151, Allison & Busby
“In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.”
“I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so its difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.”

Source : "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. February 20, 2010.
“States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.”

Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.72, W. W. Norton & Company
“You do your best, you do all this stuff, but the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.”

You may also like:

Amy Robach
Journalist
Dan Abrams
Television host
Diane Sawyer
News Anchor
Elizabeth Vargas
Journalist
George Stephanopoulos
White House Communications Director
Mark Epstein
Author
Peter Jennings
Journalist
Sam Harris
Author
David Muir
Journalist