Formerly Quotes
132 quotes by 106 authors
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At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them;…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but…
— Anton Chekhov
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As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colourful.
— Iggy Pop
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All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.
— Veronica Roth
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He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been…
— Leo Tolstoy
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On the Bowery, in the ornate carcass of a formerly grand vaudeville theater, a dance marathon limps along. The contestants, young girls and their fellas,…
— Libba Bray
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A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what…
— Stephen King
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If someone had asked who could stage the best intervention with a crazy woman who had formerly been an undead monster, Sydney Sage would have…
— Richelle Mead
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There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose…
— Samuel Johnson
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Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There…
— Paul Robeson
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
— Tacitus
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I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Iron Curtain drop around nations which…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white…
— Natasha Trethewey
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth:…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of…
— Russell Smith
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In my Indian bedroom, the carved, cut-out marble jalis, or screens, which were formerly used by Indian princes to keep their wives from other eyes,…
— Doris Duke
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There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement,…
— Jose Rizal
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Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
— Brad Holland
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So seven new countries, three of them formerly part of the Soviet Union, and the others part of the Warsaw Pact, will become full members…
— Lord Robertson
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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
— Mary Wilson Little
Who Wrote These Formerly Quotes
106 authors contributed a total of 132 Formerly Quotes, led by these top contributors: