Formerly Quotes

132 quotes by 107 authors

Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the scientific geniuses who… — Mark Frauenfelder
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear… — Susan Sontag
The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This 'outgrowing',… — Carl Jung
The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would… — Sonia Sotomayor
Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering. — Gautama Buddha
If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe, the remission of their sins… — Cyprian
The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the… — Martin Van Buren
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly… — Samuel Johnson
Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding… — Aristotle
Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known, or believed to… — Charles Darwin
I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at… — John Owen
And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc,… — Samuel P. Huntington
Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside the marriage. Patriarchy… — Arlie Russell Hochschild
I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away. — Gabriela Sabatini
I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly. — John Clare
We who were formerly no people at all, and who knew of no peace, are now called to be...a church...of peace. True Christians do not… — Menno Simons
Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied… — Alister E. McGrath
Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole community. It was… — Max Nordau
Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or have been heretofore, were formerly… — Robert Hooke
What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I… — Jonathan Swift

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