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965 Former quotes by 762 unique authors

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and… — Krista Allen
Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York. — Andre Balazs
It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. — Larry Wall
I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss. — Elvis Costello
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former… — Bertolt Brecht
Correct is to recognize what diseases are and whence they come; which are long and which are short; which are mortal and which are not;… — Hippocrates
However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are… — Bob Filner
Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a… — Gary L. Francione
But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality. — John T. Flynn
If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former. — Townsend Harris
I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I think… — Nicole Krauss
Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily… — Augustus William Hare
Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be… — Augustus William Hare
As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and… — Andrew Greeley
It's a Vietnamese soup that answers the question, 'What happens when a former child soldier pours hot rain water over fish nightmares.' It's delicious and… — Kyle Kinane
After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system… — David Levering Lewis
Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who… — Will Self
Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and… — Friedrich August von Hayek
I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magisterial use of reason occurs when reason… — William Lane Craig
Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter… — Arthur Schopenhauer
As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors… — Arthur Schopenhauer
When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that… — Curt Schilling
A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the… — Christian D. Larson
The conservative media game was neatly summarized by Matt Labash, a former senior writer for The Weekly Standard, in a 2003 interview on the website… — Matt Labash
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're… — Peter York

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