Quotes about Former

You know what you call the two winners of that $580 million PowerBall lottery? ... Former Democrats Votes: 4

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. Votes: 4

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Votes: 4

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. Votes: 4

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. Votes: 4

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. Votes: 4

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. Votes: 4

I turned to books for comfort. (Former First Lady, Laura Bush) Votes: 3

Folks, tomorrow America will get to hear those four words we've been waiting for: "Former president George Bush". Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

No one should be put on trial without a valid reason. Former President Morsi must be treated with dignity. These are the conditions of national reconciliation. Votes: 3

Former US president, drug baron and pedophile, George Herbert Walker Bush, incidentally, is mentioned more than any other person in my experience in relation to shape-shifting. Votes: 3

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success. Votes: 3

Former president George W. Bush released his new memoir. By the way, 'memoir' is just a fancy word for 'a bunch of stuff that happened to me. Votes: 3

Former President Bush, to celebrate his 80th birthday, jumped out of an airplane. And if you've seen the polls, you know he's not the only Bush in freefall. Votes: 3

Former Governor [Jeb] Bush calling for an end all together of the Supplemental Nutrition Program, or what some people call food stamps program, as part of an overhaul. Votes: 3

Former president Bill Clinton was elected on this very day in 1992. Clinton went on to leave quite a mark in the oval office... You mean the one on the sofa? Votes: 3

Growing up in Boston, I was always Matt, Son of Former New England Patriot Don. And then when my brother Tim was a senior in high school, I became Matt, Brother of Tim. Votes: 3

I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], where point by point, very little is left to chance. Votes: 3

There is no such thing as a former KGB man. Votes: 2

A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter. Votes: 2

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. Votes: 2

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. Votes: 2

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else. Votes: 2

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. Votes: 2

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. Votes: 2

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. Votes: 2

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former Votes: 2

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. Votes: 2

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I'm inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

When it comes to personnel issues, I act professionally and respectful of former employees. I just assume that's a two-way street. It's disappointing when it's not. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

After the Cold War ended, there was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and America to convert weapons-grade nuclear materials into reactor-grade materials. So disarmament and nuclear energy actually are strongly linked. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it. Votes: 2

One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach. Votes: 2

Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning. Votes: 2

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. Votes: 2

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. Votes: 2

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will. Votes: 2

We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned. Votes: 2

The sun shines equally on diamond and charcoal, but the former has developed qualities that enable it to reflect the sunlight brilliantly, while the latter is unable to reflect the sunlight. Emulate the diamond in your dealings with people. Brightly reflect the light of God's love. Votes: 2

Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana. Votes: 2

We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it. Votes: 2

As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise. Votes: 2

So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.' Votes: 2

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge. Votes: 2

Business is not a spiritual matter, and my business decisions are not based on spiritual considerations. When I founded the Essence of Life, a project aimed at teaching tolerance and respectful dialogue, the person appointed to head it was Irit Atzmon, a former colonel in the army. Can anything be more down-to-earth than that? Votes: 2

What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble. Votes: 2

A Marine is a Marine. I set that policy two weeks ago - there's no such thing as a former Marine. You're a Marine, just in a different uniform and you're in a different phase of your life. But you'll always be a Marine because you went to Parris Island, San Diego or the hills of Quantico. There's no such thing as a former Marine. Votes: 2

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry. Votes: 2

Wife: a former girlfriend Votes: 0

Wife: a former sweetheart. Votes: 0

Husband: a former boyfriend Votes: 0

Persecutors are almost always former Victims. Votes: 0

Well, I'm a former FBI agent. Votes: 0

I'm a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator. Votes: 0

Im a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator. Votes: 0

Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book. Votes: 0

My former wife is a truly wonderful person. Votes: 0

No former player has owned a team in baseball. Votes: 0

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. Votes: 0

I'm a former Red Sox fan, now fully rehabilitated. Votes: 0

True nobility is being superior to your former self. Votes: 0

Demons are former celebrities who prey on their own insecurities. Votes: 0

I'm on very good terms with all my former wives. Votes: 0

You can't sue a president, a former president. They're indemnified. Votes: 0

Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest. Votes: 0

You can't sue a president, a former president. They're indemnified. Votes: 0

The pageant of a former hour, Is Beauty in the Grave. Votes: 0

To live meant feeding my former self to my current self. Votes: 0

I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction. Votes: 0

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes. Votes: 0

Two former students of mine are getting married. Congrats, grandpa and grandpa! Votes: 0

Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays. Votes: 0

Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you. Votes: 0

I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self. Votes: 0

Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you Votes: 0

Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days. Votes: 0

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife. Votes: 0

Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times. Votes: 0

I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games. Votes: 0

I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him. Votes: 0

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators. Votes: 0

I am at that age when former child stars go off the rails. Votes: 0

Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder. Votes: 0

For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, But falls still further from its former shore. Votes: 0

My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway. Votes: 0

The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. Votes: 0

The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me. Votes: 0

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer. Votes: 0

I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything. Votes: 0

As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me. Votes: 0

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography. Votes: 0

The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest. Votes: 0

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? Votes: 0

Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven. Votes: 0

My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars. Votes: 0

You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend. Votes: 0

Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks. Votes: 0

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive. Votes: 0

My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated. Votes: 0

Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself? Votes: 0

As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance. Votes: 0

He's easily the most well-adjusted former child star in the room, please welcome... Jason Bateman Votes: 0

On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell? Votes: 0

The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms. Votes: 0

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive. Votes: 0

My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her. Votes: 0

I am a former sabre fencer and fenced as part of the Uzbek republic team. Votes: 0

How worthy it is to remember former benefits when we come to beg for new. Votes: 0

It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life. Votes: 0

Power is different from glory for former, in the long run, leads to the latter. Votes: 0

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses. Votes: 0

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. Votes: 0

All possibilities were once only imagined, but so are all limitations. Choose to imagine the former. Votes: 0

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. Votes: 0

Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears. Votes: 0

Some people who were central to former success aren't the right people for your future success. Votes: 0

most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. Votes: 0

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self. Votes: 0

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. Votes: 0

People can destroy people; People can also decorate. The former are misleaders; the latter are leaders. Votes: 0

I don't think it's good for America to have a former president undermine a current president. Votes: 0

As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions. Votes: 0

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child. Votes: 0

Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys. Votes: 0

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. Votes: 0

As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price. Votes: 0

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss. Votes: 0

My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him. Votes: 0

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year. Votes: 0

When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star. Votes: 0

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability. Votes: 0

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter. Votes: 0

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine Votes: 0

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history. Votes: 0

Robert Whitmore died of apoplexy when a stranger from Georgia mistook him for a former Macon waiter. Votes: 0

I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now. Votes: 0

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies. Votes: 0

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union. Votes: 0

People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races. Votes: 0

I like to think of myself less like 'an adult' and more like a 'former fetus.' Votes: 0

Stubborness we deprecate, Firmness we condone, The former is our neighbors trait, The latter is our own. Votes: 0

Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general. Votes: 0

Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions. Votes: 0

The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed. Votes: 0

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long. Votes: 0

There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter. Votes: 0

'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. Votes: 0

I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway. Votes: 0

Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day. Votes: 0

Last night we had Bill Clinton, the former president. Security was as tight as Governor Christie's yoga pants. Votes: 0

The mind, stretched to new dimensions by images, thoughts and ideas, can never return to its former shape. Votes: 0

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education. Votes: 0

The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. Votes: 0

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter. Votes: 0

Nick as in my former boyfriend Nick. Ex-rat, ex-boyfriend, ex-alive if I ever got hold of him Nick. Votes: 0

The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition. Votes: 0

He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life. Votes: 0

New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy. Votes: 0

It depends on you, to keep pushing forward until you win or giving in. Always choice the former. Votes: 0

There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population. Votes: 0

He was a hot, hot former priest and she wanted to pull a Thorn Birds on his ass. Votes: 0

People keep asking me about it but I don't want to be famous for being a former anorexic. Votes: 0

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old. Votes: 0

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier. Votes: 0

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former. Votes: 0

She was the first woman who left me. (on his former wife, Rachel Hunter, shortly after their break-up) Votes: 0

The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough. Votes: 0

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student. Votes: 0

There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon. Votes: 0

Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves. Votes: 0

There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won. Votes: 0

I think Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana was a case of that, who was an outstanding administrator. Votes: 0

Compared with lesbians, gays seem to be more unapologetic about their sexual orientation. The former must not have balls. Votes: 0

People can push people down; People can also push people up. The former are misleaders; the latter are leaders. Votes: 0

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided. Votes: 0

Before starting work go thru all the former material. Many things of vital importance have been lost sight of. Votes: 0

Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims. Votes: 0

The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen. Votes: 0

This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union and we know how successful that was. Votes: 0

I think former President Clinton and even Newt Gingrich have said it was a mistake to repeal Glass Steagall. Votes: 0

This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow. Votes: 0

Some of us are more concerned with our reputation than our character. The latter takes care of the former. Votes: 0

I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy? Votes: 0

The loving care of Mother Earth is in many quarters replacing the former sense of obedience to the Heavenly Father. Votes: 0

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them. Votes: 0

The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding. Votes: 0

Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety. Votes: 0

Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter. Votes: 0

Let me express how much I don't care on a scale of one to bite me," the former detective said. Votes: 0

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge. Votes: 0

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter. Votes: 0

Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York. Votes: 0

... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite. Votes: 0

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt. Votes: 0

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act. Votes: 0

Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield. Votes: 0

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think. Votes: 0

Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs. Votes: 0

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never. Votes: 0

Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter. Votes: 0

I think it's less risky for the Kerry campaign to embrace former President Clinton than it is to reject him. Votes: 0

In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service. Votes: 0

As both a former governor and a Naval officer I can tell you energy security remains among biofuels' most important benefits. Votes: 0

Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality. Votes: 0

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure. Votes: 0

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality. Votes: 0

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one. Votes: 0

It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten. Votes: 0

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them. Votes: 0

As a former federal prosecutor, I welcome the opportunity to hold Hillary Rodham Clinton accountable for her performance and her character. Votes: 0

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree. Votes: 0

If you look back at past administrations, they`re probably a little bit behind where former President George W. Bush was. Votes: 0

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander. Votes: 0

The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat. Votes: 0

The key, I suppose, has less to do with insight than with willingness, the former being relatively useless without the latter. Votes: 0

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not. Votes: 0

Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something. Votes: 0

As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live. Votes: 0

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter. Votes: 0

In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter? Votes: 0

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car. Votes: 0

My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player. Votes: 0

I happen to be a three-time former WWF Champion and a hardcore legend, and I never had my own dressing room. Votes: 0

The price must be less than one half of the former high and preferably at or near its all time low. Votes: 0

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived. Votes: 0

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing. Votes: 0

This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame. Votes: 0

I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors! Votes: 0

As former secretary of state Madeleine Albright once said, There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. Votes: 0

Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets. Votes: 0

The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen. Votes: 0

Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter. Votes: 0

Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former. Votes: 0

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. Votes: 0

Three courses open lie to wealth, to give, enjoy, or lose, Who shrinketh from the former two, perforce the third doth choose. Votes: 0

I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world. Votes: 0

I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your former opponent, and swipe at them. Votes: 0

It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions. Votes: 0

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation. Votes: 0

As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had. Votes: 0

Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway. Votes: 0

Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime Votes: 0

The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life. Votes: 0

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter. Votes: 0

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. Votes: 0

Along with former President Bill Clinton, we have Sam Nunn to thank for the sorry debacle of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' Votes: 0

If you believe our president, a former oil businessman, is going to end our addiction to oil, shame on all of us. Votes: 0

I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust. Votes: 0

Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies. Votes: 0

It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics. Votes: 0

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal. Votes: 0

It was an agreement between (former Iraqi president) Saddam (Hussein) and the shah of Iran (ousted in 1979) and not between Iraq and Iran. Votes: 0

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. Votes: 0

It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former. Votes: 0

The Communist Party of China is a party that seeks peace, harmony and reconciliation, unlike the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union Votes: 0

I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice. Votes: 0

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering. Votes: 0

Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former. Votes: 0

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. Votes: 0

Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant. Votes: 0

The opposite of corporate greed is personal generosity. Government policies that enable the former and prevent the latter are both worthy of protest. Votes: 0

The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one. Votes: 0

Casey Blake (a former Minnesota Twin, now with the Indians) is a good friend of mine, I'd like to see the Indians win. Votes: 0

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter. Votes: 0

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences. Votes: 0

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. Votes: 0

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. Votes: 0

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former. Votes: 0

Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring. Votes: 0

Either I will love you, or I will love you if and only if you love me in return. I prefer the former. Votes: 0

What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material. Votes: 0

Calling a trans person by their former name is referred to as "deadnaming" and is considered highly offensive to most trans people I know. Votes: 0

TV can be an acronym for television or transvestite. I prefer using it to describe the the latter. The former is strange and undignified. Votes: 0

The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about. Votes: 0

I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution. Votes: 0

I'm forever a former president and I understand that, but at this point in my post-presidency, I don't want to be involved with politics. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father. Votes: 0

About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality. Votes: 0

We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress. Votes: 0

President [Barack] Obama, it took him a number of days to do [appointments to Administration] and it took former President Bill Clinton even longer. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other. Votes: 0

Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less. Votes: 0

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual. Votes: 0

There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing Votes: 0

From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall. Votes: 0

I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership. Votes: 0

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.' Votes: 0

We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former. Votes: 0

The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians. Votes: 0

I've kept in touch with many of my former teammates: Bob Marcucci was our team manager and we bonded over our passion for baseball. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan. Votes: 0

I was Ashallayn'darkmyr Tallyn, son of Mab, former prince of the Unseelie Court, and I was not afraid of a witch on a broom. Votes: 0

Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute. Votes: 0

Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former. Votes: 0

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature. Votes: 0

George H. W. Bush is gracious. And I'm not saying any of the former presidents aren't gracious, I'm just saying, this man is gracious. Votes: 0

I learnt very early in life that whenever there is a choice between peace of mind and piece of ass, go for the former. Votes: 0

You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that's possible for you. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When it comes to France, it seems to me the fundamental question is how a former colonial power should interact with its former colony. Votes: 0

There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.— ~Deidre O'Neill, known as Edde (p. 213) Votes: 0

However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos. Votes: 0

Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged--the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears. Votes: 0

If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities. Votes: 0

Philosophy is about getting the facts right, but it is also about thinking rightly about them. Philosophy is more about the latter than the former. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'. Votes: 0

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better. Votes: 0

Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers. Votes: 0

Don Siegelman should be a star in the Democratic Party. Instead, he's a former elected official sentenced to prison by a right-wing judge in Alabama. Votes: 0

Incredibly, whenever I have proposed the theory that half of government workers could be cut, current and former federal employees I know have all agreed. Votes: 0

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality. Votes: 0

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man Votes: 0

Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don't aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul. Votes: 0

I joke that I reached the bimbo trifecta when I came to Fox News! In being a former Miss America, being blonde and then Fox. Votes: 0

Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself. Votes: 0

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. Votes: 0

Good publishers "“ as one former publisher aptly put it "“ are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce. Votes: 0

'Perfect justice rules the world' for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. Votes: 0

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial. Votes: 0

His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The latter went dreaming. Votes: 0

Bush met with former President Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter is 76 years old, or as Democrats call him 'their bright new star of the future.' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends. Votes: 0

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe. Votes: 0

It's funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids. Votes: 0

Earlier today former Vermont Governor Howard Dean became the new head of the Democratic National Committee -- no word on who will be the neck. Votes: 0

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism. Votes: 0

I was attached to the SAS from time to time, but we are forbidden - former, present, or future - to discuss any specific operations. Votes: 0

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap no benefit. Votes: 0

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. Votes: 0

When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science. Votes: 0

An earthquake strikes Haiti, and care packages from America are among the first to arrive - and not far behind are former Presidents Clinton and Bush. Votes: 0

Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject. Votes: 0

Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. Votes: 0

Unlike the former Soviet Union that respected the strength of West, Putin's Russia ignores talk of sanctions, claims land, and supports rebels in Ukraine with impunity. Votes: 0

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter. Votes: 0

Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams. Don't think you have to wait for the latter to do the former. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The rumored frontrunner for [Donald] Trump`s Secretary of State is former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani who of course has no foreign policy experience. Votes: 0

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with. Votes: 0

The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world. Votes: 0

I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you for. Votes: 0

I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former. Votes: 0

Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector. Votes: 0

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges. Votes: 0

It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass. Votes: 0

Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more. Votes: 0

Well, it used to be Kobe Bryant...the second best all time...now, I have a new favorite player to play against...my former teammate, LeBron James. Votes: 0

Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's definitely bled into my writing. Votes: 0

The first thing I ever invested in was Twitter. Blaine Cook, former CTO, was leaving the company and asked me if I wanted to buy his stock. Votes: 0

I grew up in such a macho family. I had a former Green Beret for a dad, a mom who's really rough-and-tumble, and three very macho brothers. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. Votes: 0

Shawn's (Shawn Weatherly - former beauty queen) acting ability is such that she could not convey the concept of falling if your pushed her off a cliff. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with some versions of the latter. Votes: 0

Darkness well ahead is better than darkness close by, because you can find a way to avoid the former! Search the horizons to see the storms ahead. Votes: 0

Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former. Votes: 0

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered. Votes: 0

The Future is as avoidable as the past is alterable, for the latter is, after all, a consequence of the former: A combination of choice and fate. Votes: 0

When better screening certain Muslim immigrants first came up, one of the big defenders was Carl Higbie. He's a former Navy Sean and a [Donald] Trump supporter. Votes: 0

As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm a proud American - becoming a citizen in 1988 was one of the most profoundly moving occasions in my life; I'm a former Texan and a recent Californian. Votes: 0

[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. Votes: 0

We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do. Votes: 0

Every week Rangers have different former players come out at half-time. Spurs should have a couple a former players on the board, who know what the supporters want. Votes: 0

I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex. [Hawking adopted this statement from a remark made to him by his former post-doc, Nathan Myhrvold.] Votes: 0

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true. Votes: 0

I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies. Votes: 0

I need to have perspective. That's one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself. Votes: 0

Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives. Votes: 0

[My father] taught me (at least he showed me) a dignified way to be a former president is that once you're off the stage, you're off the stage. Votes: 0

Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them. Votes: 0

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]? Votes: 0

My resistance to communication work is because of 15 years with my former wife where we did all this work, but we never got to the core of anything. Votes: 0

It gives me real concern to observe ... that you should think it necessary to distinguish between my personal and public character, and confine your esteem to the former. Votes: 0

They said that Seven was a former Borg who had been human and had been assimilated. She was regaining her humanity. I had no interest in this character. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I`m a former mayor. I know that being a cop is not an easy job. But when police officers misbehave, they`ve got to be held accountable. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In London in the 1980s some migrants from former British colonies in the Caribbean responded to racist attacks with a powerful slogan: We are here because you were there. Votes: 0

In London in the 1980s some migrants from former British colonies in the Caribbean responded to racist attacks with a powerful slogan: "We are here because you were there. Votes: 0

Your former friend Luke " Poseidon corrected. "He once promised things like that. He was Hermes's pride and joy. Just bear that in mind Percy. Even the bravest can fall. Votes: 0

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow's falser than the former day. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that. Votes: 0

"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." Votes: 0

I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read. Votes: 0

We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy. Votes: 0

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self. Votes: 0

The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now. Votes: 0

As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who've dedicated their lives to serving others as well as those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it. Votes: 0

For whence had that former sorrow so easily penetrated to the quick, but that I had poured out my soul upon the dust, in loving one who must die? Votes: 0

Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell. Votes: 0

As far as being in dangerous situations around the world is concerned, I always have a Secret Service detail with me as one of the privileges of a former President. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience. Votes: 0

A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter. Votes: 0

I owe a lot to this club and the supporters who were always there for me. They supported me even when I was suspended. (on his former club CSKA Sofia) Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate. Votes: 0

I have somehow, continued to miss Oktoberfest so that's probably something that is better for me to do as a former president rather than as president, I'll have more fun. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge. Votes: 0

When I was in school, my former roommate went through hazing. I heard the stories, but I don't think I've seen a movie that captures the stuff that goes on. Votes: 0

The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles. Votes: 0

As if being a former vampire drone in a werewolf household were not shocking enough, the maid then opened her mouth and proved that she was also, quite reprehensibly, French. Votes: 0

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Some days you feel like you're the worst of sinners; others like you're the most righteous person on earth. I am convinced that the former is when you're closest to God. Votes: 0

I heard the South African 'keeper had been killed and I thought it was probably one of their former goalkeepers, but when I confirmed it was Senzo Meyiwa, I was shattered. Votes: 0

She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. Votes: 0

My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so my pride in our military is passionate... and personal. Votes: 0

I'm a former federal prosecutor, I've fought terrorists and won and when we get back in the White House we will fight terrorists and win again and America will be safe. Votes: 0

The only similarity between the car and the human body is that if something is seriously wrong with the design of the former you can send it back to its maker. Votes: 0

There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter. Votes: 0

As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with the courts can never hope to have. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life. Votes: 0

For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history. [Cicero, quoted by Goldsworthy in his Augustus] Votes: 0

Now as a former welfare recipient, I don't have a problem with expecting people to work to earn money. But where I come from we call that a job, not volunteerism. Votes: 0

I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister. Votes: 0

Zombies have no memories of their former life. You wont see the undead trying to wash windows or do your taxes. All they know how to do is swarm and feed. Votes: 0

If you take my own life, the longer you stay in a country, you almost lose your former self and become this third-party person who is caught in between two worlds. Votes: 0

I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes. Votes: 0

I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends. Votes: 0

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia. Votes: 0

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America. Votes: 0

When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Judge a person not by how he treats you, but how he treats others. The former reflects what he wants you to think of him, the latter truly reflects who he is. Votes: 0

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former. Votes: 0

Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces? Votes: 0

If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self. Votes: 0

There are also people who lived in either side of Germany, but who never had or have any relationship with the other side whether it was former East or former West Germany. Votes: 0

So, then, what is style? There are two chief aspects of any piece of writing: 1) what you say and 2) how you say it. The former is "content" and the latter is "style." Votes: 0

There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable. Votes: 0

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on. Votes: 0

One of the charges made against me is that I lived in the same house with my former husband, Dr. Woodhull, and my present husband, Col. Blood. The fact is a fact. Votes: 0

The mere fact that I'm former head of state and former under-secretary in the U.N. system, it means that I can get in touch with anybody in the world, in theory. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning. Votes: 0

My friend is a former race car driver, so he races for Mercedes, and I root for him. I have a car that I love to race, I'll take it to the track. Votes: 0

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart. Votes: 0

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 no death. In place of death there was light. Votes: 0

It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart's choice. Votes: 0

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job. Votes: 0

I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not. Votes: 0