Former Quotes

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

I don't like people--much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former.

The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and calculation correct the former.

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

The idea of public service was instilled in me by watching my father, who shared that he was far more fulfilled in his public service than by his former lucrative corporate jobs.

I have students who are PhDs in music who come back and scored the music and teach the kids the instruments that I don't know how to play. Those are the points of light, the former students.

Is Europe a home for an alliance of civilizations or is it a Christian club? If the former is true, then Turkey should be part of it.

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

Let my muse Fail of thy former helps, and only use Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.

He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and from the latter finds no product.

Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves.

She was the first woman who left me. (on his former wife, Rachel Hunter, shortly after their break-up)

The pageant of a former hour, Is Beauty in the Grave.

You can't sue a president, a former president. They're indemnified.

Some people who were central to former success aren't the right people for your future success.

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

Calling a trans person by their former name is referred to as "deadnaming" and is considered highly offensive to most trans people I know.

I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now.

In everything, there are two kinds of development-analytical and synthetical. In the former the Hindus excel other nations. In the latter they are nil.

I've called David Cameron worse things than joker....and a former Prime Minister Tony Blair is widely referred to as a war criminal.

After three failed marriages, I know what its like to be replaced. So thats kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today. ... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like hes going to be a bust in Detroit.

In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former in due time is replaced by one better but the fact remains and becomes fertile.

What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.

We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.

This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union - and we know how successful that was.

The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.

Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.

Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays.

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

Either you have a sense of humor about [being a former child star], or you're in rehab. There's not a lot of gray area.

Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

Nothing in our lifetimes has been more heartening than when people of the former Soviet Union and Central Europe broke the grip of communism. We have aided their progress and I am proud of it.

There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing

I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.

Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.

It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.

This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame.

Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.

Some people are each envious of the person they used to be.

Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow

If one Godfather offers you an opportunity and another Godfather offers you an advantage, go with the former.