Former Quotes
965 Former quotes by 762 unique authors
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I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful…
— Warren Moon
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Did Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews furnish structural material for Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon? It has been pointed out in these pages that…
— B. H. Roberts
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The loving care of Mother Earth is in many quarters replacing the former sense of obedience to the Heavenly Father.
— Unknown Author
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Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel his…
— Unknown Author
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I’m Norma McCorvey, the former Jane Roe of the Roe vs. Wade decision that brought ‘legal’ child killing to America. I was persuaded by feminist…
— Norma McCorvey
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The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems…
— Sarada Devi
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He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a…
— Maria Montessori
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The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear…
— Jenny Shipley
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The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled.…
— Charles Lamb
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But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be…
— George Ripley
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John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
— M H Abrams
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The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the…
— Ernest Crawley
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When the chairman introduced the guest speaker as a former illegal alien, I got up from my chair and yelled, "What's the matter, no jobs…
— Jack Handey
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I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.
— Douglas MacArthur
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The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but…
— Unknown Author
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Love changes us and helps us move forward in life. It often helps us become the people we've always wanted to be and move away…
— Adam Wilde
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Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the former case it…
— Kenneth Tynan
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UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after decades…
— Kofi Annan
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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There are two kinds of researchers : those that have implemented something and those that have not. The latter will tell you that there are…
— David Cheriton
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