Former Quotes

965 Former quotes by 762 unique authors

Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days. — T.D. Jakes
I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution. — Saddam Hussein
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to… — Karl Kraus
The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best be cleared up… — Charles Lyell
We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom… — Asa Gray
The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives… — Arthur Helps
The opposite of corporate greed is personal generosity. Government policies that enable the former and prevent the latter are both worthy of protest. — Cynthia Dill
Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private… — Mark McKinnon
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history. — Nathaniel Philbrick
When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of Western… — Arne Glimcher
I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now, as countries, former… — Loretta Napoleoni
Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability. — Leslie Morgan Steiner
Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers. — Gautam Gambhir
Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history -… — Teju Cole
My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His… — H. Rap Brown
Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having… — Mara Wilson
The difference between brown and white rice is that the former is not milled. With the outer bran and germ intact, the rice is therefore… — Yotam Ottolenghi
As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political cause so that… — P.J. O'Rourke
After the Cold War ended, there was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and America to convert weapons-grade nuclear materials into reactor-grade materials. So… — Susan Eisenhower
Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy… — Robert Kiyosaki
Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use your imagination. For… — Irma S. Rombauer
David Beckham is a patriot, and I am sure he will help in any way he can. Beckham needs to be part of any future… — Gordon Taylor
The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which… — Noam Chomsky
Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested… — Ben Shapiro

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