His Former Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness?…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Make no man your friend before inquiring how he has used his former friends; for you must expect him to treat you as he has…
— Isocrates
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Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.
— John Milton
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When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a…
— Aravind Adiga
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The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms.
— Ovid
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This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was a Sioux Indian…
— Marc Forgione
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He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.
— Milan Kundera
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He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain inside…
— Stephen Dobyns
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This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than…
— Paulo Coelho
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Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus,…
— John Milton
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He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was…
— Leo Tolstoy
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...Having no recourse, I feel back on Shakespeare. Leif would recognize it and understand the context properly. With my remaining few seconds of consciousness, I…
— Kevin Hearne
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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it…
— Baruch Spinoza
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Once Joe Paterno learned that his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was showering with a young boy in the Penn State football locker room, he…
— Christine Pelosi
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[on his former manager, Malcolm McLaren] Let's just say that if Malcolm breathes, it's too much for me to stomach.
— Johnny Rotten
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"You're fired!" No other words can so easily and succinctly reduce a confident, self-assured executive to an insecure, groveling shred of his former self.
— Frank P Louchheim
Who Wrote These His Former Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 His Former Quotes as follows: