Former Quotes
Former Quote of the day
I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles
I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.
This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.
I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.
Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets.
I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.
Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
Some of us are more concerned with our reputation than our character. The latter takes care of the former.
I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.
Many years ago Christian pioneers had to fight savage Indians. Today missionaries of these former cultures are being sent via the public schools to heathenize our children.
The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.
As both a former governor and a Naval officer I can tell you energy security remains among biofuels' most important benefits.
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man - he made a good decision.
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.
Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.
Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.
There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.
As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.
Former lefties can make a good living in the media by attacking their ex-comrades - I'd do it myself if the price was right.
Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.
Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.
My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.
I'm a former hippie; I did drugs back when they were healthy. The only time I ever did LSD was at Disney World. I didn't go there - it came to me. I was Snow White.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.
Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.
The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.
Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.
You know what you call the two winners of that $580 million PowerBall lottery? ... Former Democrats
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 the latter.
We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.
Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears.
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.
Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual. In everything we do, the claim of the Absolute is unchanging.
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.