Former Quotes

I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor and I like the way he works.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.

We will not let the price of peace be greater than the price of war, we will firmly safeguard the achievements of the past 13 years under former President Karzai.

Not to mention our former tag team champions lost their titles after my good friend Christian was hit in the genitals with a hockey stick by a midgit! I mean enough is enough

Former U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, has been sentenced to three years in prison. One year for money laundering and two more for his performance on 'Dancing with the Stars.'

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.

Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.

Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

We can profit only by our own misfortunes and those of others. The former, though they may be the more beneficial, are also the more painful; let us turn, then, to the latter.

Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines.

There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.

Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part.

I just didn't have no edge for baseball. Once special coach Tony Oliva and former Twins coach Al Newman told me what happened, I couldn't function.

A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

Which of the following two groups contains the most former grand dragons of the Ku Klux Klan - the first 59 Tea Party people you run into this morning, or the U.S. Senate Democratic caucus?

Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.

The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.

We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.

Ex-convicts prepared the eggs for the White House’s Easter Egg Roll. It’s nice to see the White House reaching out to former members of Congress.

"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."

Before starting work go thru all the former material. Many things of vital importance have been lost sight of.

The Communist Party of China is a party that seeks peace, harmony and reconciliation, unlike the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.

A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.

Wife: a former sweetheart.

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.