The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self. — Milton Glaser Copy Share Image
The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
As the former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, I dealt on a daily basis with China. — Bill Hagerty Copy Share Image
My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance. — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
The fact that a former senator and secretary of state claimed not to know what the letter "C" means is just one… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Three courses open lie to wealth, to give, enjoy, or lose, Who shrinketh from the former two, perforce the third doth choose. — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
I have somehow, continued to miss Oktoberfest so that's probably something that is better for me to do as a former president… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
'Perfect justice rules the world' for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all… — Iamblichus Copy Share Image
At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual. In everything we do, the claim of… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The distinction between the world of commerce and that of "culture" quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“ Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Sometimes the former forces are in the ascendance, and "democratic governance" is eroded, though anyone familiar with intellectual history would expect that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Germans are often too bureaucratic, too fixated on rules and not risk-oriented enough. And some of their officials have the feeling… — Charles Landry Copy Share Image
Former Enron founder Ken Lay and CEO Jeffrey Skilling found guilty in the Enron case. Ken Lay is so guilty I'm surprised… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself)… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean was all smiles, well smirks, after picking up the endorsement of former Vice President Al Gore at… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
By 1990, the EPA had tallied up 32,645 sites of past chemical waste dumping in need of cleanup. Some of these are… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former. — Townsend Harris Copy Share Image
Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car. — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
My mum Eileen, a former machinist, made some of my costumes for 'Top Of The Pops.' — Martin Kemp Copy Share Image
Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
