Former Quotes

965 Former quotes by 762 unique authors

Kellis-Amberlee is a fact of existence. You live, you die, and then you come back to life, get up, and shamble around trying to eat… — Mira Grant
Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself? — Libba Bray
We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life… — Philip K. Dick
My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found cheerfulness to be… — George MacDonald
What you think of as they past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you… — Eckhart Tolle
Maybe I was worrying for nothing. Maybe it had just been casual for him, and I wouldn't even have to tell him it couldn't happen… — Jeaniene Frost
When I told you I wanted to try, I spoke the truth. When I turned away, it was for my former court, and when I… — Melissa Marr
They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father. — John Green
Let me express how much I don't care on a scale of one to bite me," the former detective said. — Darynda Jones
There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection… — Dan Chaon
The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that… — R.K. Narayan
I've got a gig," Jim said. I sat up in my bed, wide-awake. A gig was good- I needed the money. "Half." "Third." "Half." "Thirty-five… — Ilona Andrews
The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when… — Mikhail Lermontov
While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply… — Daniel H. Pink
...first thing is that I love you. And the second thing is that as much as I honor your former profession, I don’t think your… — Shannon Hale
Nick as in my former boyfriend Nick. Ex-rat, ex-boyfriend, ex-alive if I ever got hold of him Nick. — Kim Harrison
I'm not so stupid as to believe that you've completely forgotten about your former boyfriend. I know you think there are others here more suited… — Kiera Cass
Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group: I… — Philip Yancey
We linked hands—my ex-boyfriend, my boyfriend, and my former friend-then-enemy-then friend and I—and walked through a door to see if maybe empty carbs were good… — Kiersten White
Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime — William Blake
The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former grows… — Steven Erikson
I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than… — Bertrand Russell
The enemy is not individuals, churches, 'ex-gay' organisations or political parties; the enemy is ignorance. Change is created by focusing our energies on overcoming the… — Anthony Venn-Brown
Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something. — Idries Shah

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