Former Quotes

965 Former quotes by 762 unique authors

People keep asking me about it but I don't want to be famous for being a former anorexic. — Kate Beckinsale
WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell… — Julian Assange
I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and… — Bob Hoover
Buckethead [former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist] is probably twice as good a guitar player as me and Slash combined, and can stand having fried chicken… — Dave Mustaine
What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe. — James J. Gibson
There is no such thing as a former KGB man. — Vladimir Putin
My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former… — William Banting
Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more characteristic, and the… — Samuel Hahnemann
To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city what we would… — Colson Whitehead
There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's… — Noam Chomsky
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former. — Fredrik Bajer
In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Spirit, conferred by baptism in the name… — Seraphim of Sarov
Be wary of friendsâ€”they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a… — Robert Greene
I rode in a gang. We robbed trains, banks, held people ransom. We killed people we didn't like. Bill Williamson was in that gang. If… — John Marston
As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more… — Frans de Waal
Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets… — Van Jones
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because… — Baron de Montesquieu
Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and… — William Lane Craig
The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change,… — Leslie White
There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of… — Washington Irving

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