Former Quotes

965 Former quotes by 762 unique authors

Ex-convicts prepared the eggs for the White House’s Easter Egg Roll. It’s nice to see the White House reaching out to former members of Congress. — Jay Leno
President Obama admitted this week that a former girlfriend that he wrote about in his autobiography was made up and not a real person .… — Jay Leno
What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away… — Hans Rosling
As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to… — Andres Serrano
Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in order to induce… — Horatius Bonar
The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of British Special Forces,… — Michael Hastings
According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin… — Ferdinand Mount
All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun a long circle… — Paul Shepard
As a former NFL athlete, my quality of play on the field was in direct correlation to how I took care of my body. Bulletproof… — Devon McDonald
Every week Rangers have different former players come out at half-time. Spurs should have a couple a former players on the board, who know what… — Graham Roberts
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the… — Joseph Campbell
You know what you call the two winners of that $580 million PowerBall lottery? ... Former Democrats — Jay Leno
A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the… — Benjamin Franklin
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale… — Winston Churchill
Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having taught us first… — Cotton Mather
Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we believe about God.… — Rachel Held Evans
Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are when… — Galileo Galilei
In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag should be flown… — Michael K. Simpson
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter,… — William Shenstone
When the soul betrays itself and loses the blessed and longed-for fervor, let it carefully investigate the reason for losing it. And let it arm… — John Climacus
Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
The power of theocrasy or exercise of government rule over the masses by a hierarchy of priests or adepts rested on its dual system of… — Edith Starr Miller
I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of… — Fernando Pessoa
Do not feed your ego and your problems, with your attention. ...Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be… — Eknath Easwaran
Love is insistent on its own continuation. Every fraction of a second, someone somewhere falls in love, a former enemy becomes a friend, and a… — Marianne Williamson

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