Quotes about Latter

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible. Votes: 4

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger. Votes: 4

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

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else. Votes: 4

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time. 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

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. Votes: 4

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter. Votes: 4

This will equally apply to every Latter-day Saint. Salvation is an individual operation. Votes: 3

The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint. Votes: 3

No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist. Votes: 3

A true Latter"“day Saint family is a haven against the storms and struggles of life. Votes: 3

What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth. Votes: 3

Every Latter-day Saint should sustain, honor, and obey the constitutional law of the land in which he lives. Votes: 3

I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ. Votes: 3

I am always pleased when I have the opportunity of meeting with the Latter-day Saints in any of their gatherings. Votes: 3

Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does. Votes: 3

Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test Votes: 3

Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of a true Latter-day Saint. Votes: 3

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman. Votes: 3

Missionary work is an identifying feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Always has it been; ever shall it be. Votes: 3

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bears His name. He stands at its head and directs it through His chosen prophets. Votes: 3

The ability to share the Gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest. Votes: 3

No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves Votes: 3

The ability to share the gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest. Votes: 3

President Lorenzo Snow declared that it is "the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint . . . to have the manifestations of the spirit every day of our lives." Votes: 3

If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people. Votes: 3

The most important single thing that any Latter-day Saint ever does in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority. Votes: 3

How grateful I am That the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints has from its beginnings stood strongly against racism in any of its malignant manifestations Votes: 3

We are the nation's watchmen, no other people collectively love the Constitution and honor it and hold it as a divinely inspired document as do the Latter-day Saints. Votes: 3

Let the Latter-day Saints be in their homes, teaching their families, reading the scriptures, doing things that are wholesome and beautiful and communing with the Lord on the Sabbath day. Votes: 3

Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord! Votes: 3

Let us take a little time to meditate, to think of what we can do to improve our lives and to become better examples of what a Latter-day Saint should be. Votes: 3

If a person wants to enjoy the Spirit of the Lord...always cultivate a spirit of gratitude. It is the duty of every Latter-day Saint to cultivate a spirit of gratitude. Votes: 3

I appeal to the Latter-day Saints to be honest with the Lord, and I promise them that peace, prosperity and financial success will attend those who are honest with our Heavenly Father. Votes: 3

When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church. Votes: 3

The time has now come for every Latter-day Saint ... to do the will of the Lord and to pay his tithing in full. That is the word of the Lord to you... Votes: 3

To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only that it be an honest study - a search for truth. Votes: 3

The Latter-day Saint woman who follows Christ is a true Christian in the very best sense of the word. She is a woman of faith who trusts God and is confident and fearless. Votes: 3

Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not be true to the best interests and general welfare of his country. Votes: 3

The transcendent gift of the Holy Ghost, along with membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is bestowed by confirmation, by the laying on of hands by those having priesthood authority. Votes: 3

There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her. Votes: 3

Every Latter-day Saint should make the study of this book a lifetime pursuit. Otherwise, he is placing his soul in jeopardy and neglecting that which could give spiritual and intellectual unity to his whole life. Votes: 3

A Mormon knows that the promises of God are true, and He said that all will be tried; realizing these things the Latter-day Saints will acknowledge their Maker not only in blessings but also in tribulations. Votes: 3

In the midst of all this turmoil and destruction, the Latter-day Saints should dwell in peace and safety. This they may do if they will be honest with themselves, with their fellowmen, and with their God. Votes: 3

I wish to say to the Latter-day Saints, all that we have to do is be faithful, to keep His commandments, to be humble, to seek Him in mighty prayer, and all will be well with us. Votes: 3

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be, 'out of there.' Votes: 3

But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days. Votes: 3

In the service of the Lord, it is not where you serve but how. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one takes the place to which one is duly called, which place one neither seeks nor declines. Votes: 3

How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me — namely that Adam is our Father and God —... Votes: 3

There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her lose his or her chastity - realizing that chastity is of more value than anything else in all the world. Votes: 3

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter. Votes: 2

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. Votes: 2

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

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former. Votes: 2

Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884. Votes: 2

There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on 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

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

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre. Votes: 2

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. Votes: 2

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. Votes: 2

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives. Votes: 2

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. Votes: 2

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. Votes: 2

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. Votes: 2

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: 2

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: 2

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment. Votes: 2

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. Votes: 2

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be. Votes: 2

I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom. Votes: 2

Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic. 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

Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection? Votes: 2

I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's rare when there's no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I'm more successful at it. Votes: 2

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else. Votes: 2

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. Votes: 2

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable! Votes: 2

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp. Votes: 2

I hope that there's a difference between being childish and childlike and that I'm the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don't think I'm a terribly good grown-up; I don't take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I'm absolutely appalling. Votes: 2

The latter end of joy is woe. Votes: 0

The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration Votes: 0

You can be fearful or fearless...I chose the latter Votes: 0

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter. Votes: 0

In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped. Votes: 0

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

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails. Votes: 0

As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter. Votes: 0

A cis-immunologist will sometimes speak to a trans-immunologist; but the latter rarely answers. Votes: 0

Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter. Votes: 0

It is easy to give up than to endure. Always choose the latter. Votes: 0

A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter. Votes: 0

If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter. Votes: 0

If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet. Votes: 0

I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter. Votes: 0

Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher. Votes: 0

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. Votes: 0

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

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

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the latter poetry has become science. Votes: 0

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the 19th century. Votes: 0

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

An honourable public and a dishonourable dictator cannot live together; at the end, the latter goes! 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

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

I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter. Votes: 0

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

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

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it. Votes: 0

For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present. Votes: 0

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared. Votes: 0

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter. Votes: 0

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

God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance. Votes: 0

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

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

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature. Votes: 0

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

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable. Votes: 0

The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest. Votes: 0

Perhaps people hate because it's more difficult to love. It also takes more courage to do the latter. Votes: 0

Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier Votes: 0

I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best. Votes: 0

If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life. Votes: 0

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself. Votes: 0

Whenever there is a conflict between precept and example, the latter wins because deeds speak louder than our words. Votes: 0

The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable. Votes: 0

Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance. Votes: 0

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

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest. Votes: 0

Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back. Votes: 0

Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles. Votes: 0

Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED Votes: 0

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

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

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

Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily. Votes: 0

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

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

If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter Votes: 0

I only want to fight real champions; I want to fight real opponents, so that I can climb the latter. Votes: 0

I think the line between "inspiration" and "plagiarism" is often so thin, that you risk falling into the latter one. Votes: 0

The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better. Votes: 0

Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them. Votes: 0

Firing of Energy does it faster than pumping, but the latter is under better control, and much more resource efficient Votes: 0

[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine. Votes: 0

By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men. Votes: 0

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

Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter. Votes: 0

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

The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest. Votes: 0

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

Is it so wrong to just live life and enjoy it? Between fun and function, why must we choose 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

You can use your time to build bridges or walls.The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness. 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

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

We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all. 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

There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone. Votes: 0

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. Votes: 0

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. Votes: 0

It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter. 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

The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. 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

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

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. Votes: 0

Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union. 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

A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry. Votes: 0

The so-called geologic ages are essentially synonymous with the evolutionary theory of origins. The latter is the anti-God conspiracy of Satan himself. 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

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

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. 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

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering Votes: 0

Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes. Votes: 0

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move. Votes: 0

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter. Votes: 0

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering. 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

You are either going to go through the pain of disappointment or discipline in your life. The latter makes the pain worth it. 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 is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former. Votes: 0

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter. 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

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

... I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it. Votes: 0

Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular. 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

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system. Votes: 0

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group. Votes: 0

The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary. Votes: 0

You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic. 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

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes. Votes: 0

Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrow, and uses fire-arms -- a pistol -- perhaps a revolver. 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

There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers. Votes: 0

Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power? Votes: 0

And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain! Votes: 0

Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test. 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

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

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

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

The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being. 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

There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter Votes: 0

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. Votes: 0

Between a dead-hero and a living-no one, always prefer the latter, always prefer the life! Being no one is infinitely better than being dead! 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

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species. 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

Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter. Votes: 0

The latter-day robber barons are discovering that better conditions and rewards for workers pay off in a world where consumers increasingly demand ethical standards. Votes: 0

I'm no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently). Votes: 0

Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny. 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

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

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 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: 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

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

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

His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all. 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

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

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

I'm not paranoid, just prepared. There is a distinct difference and a higher survival rate for the latter." Rainey Bell, from "Molly: House on Fire" 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

I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes. Votes: 0

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: 0

The great thing about hockey players is that they are able to separate the on-ice from the off-ice and not let the latter distract them. Votes: 0

When the rider demands the piaffe, he has to halt the horse a few strides before the latter wants to stop of his own accord. Votes: 0

There are some persons who are content with everything and others who are scarcely content with anything. These latter need patience to bear with themselves. Votes: 0

There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation. 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

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

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

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

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual. Votes: 0

There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party. 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

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

I'm bilingual, speaking English and body language. I prefer the latter, because I can speak it silently and without listening and while my back is turned." 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

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality. Votes: 0

It seems unwise to allocate a large portion of investable capital to any one deep value opportunity, even if the latter promises a large expected return. Votes: 0

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular. Votes: 0

Some boys go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. The latter are called professors. Votes: 0

Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have a job leading worship. Votes: 0

Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in Votes: 0

Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are when combined. 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

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

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

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

Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter. 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

Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter. Votes: 0

Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them. Votes: 0

The distinction between the world of commerce and that of "culture" quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter. Votes: 0

Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular. Votes: 0

When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful. 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

Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter. 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

In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict. Votes: 0

Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation. Votes: 0

Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed. Votes: 0

In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict. 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

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

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up Votes: 0

Remember, everything you are building today will be killed or iterated. The former is more likely than the latter. Great products are created by many incremental improvements. Votes: 0

sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment. Votes: 0

I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn. 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

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

Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular. Votes: 0

Most people seem to be interested in turning their dreams into reality. Then there are those who turn reality into dreams. I belong to the latter group. Votes: 0

Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force. Votes: 0

The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter. Votes: 0

The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter. 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

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

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship. Votes: 0

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval. Votes: 0

If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I'll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to submerge my viewpoint with the artist. 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

LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his election". Votes: 0

And, strangely, this one of the few things in life that the third, the latter, the buy with our eyes closed has actually done better than everybody else. Votes: 0

When I was willing to let go of what I wanted, I received what was truly mine. I’ve realized that the latter is always the greater gift. Votes: 0

No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception. Votes: 0

I've never categorically been a banker. I had two internships while I was at university. The decision was more banking, or magic, and I went with the latter. Votes: 0

Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job. Votes: 0

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all. Votes: 0

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled. 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

The difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for the truthmakers of the propositions in question. Votes: 0

When in Boston, I shall be able to take you out to dinner, if not to bed. I should greatly prefer the latter, but I must accept my lot. Votes: 0

I understand polyamory is different from polygamy, and doesn't share the latter's rigid and noxious views that men run the show and are the only ones allowed multiple partners. Votes: 0

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life. Votes: 0

In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today's decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter. Votes: 0

"Tiger is a natural kind" and "Tiger is a historical particular" are incompatible with each other, and evolutionary biology provides a reason for favoring the latter over the former. Votes: 0

In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values. Votes: 0

When women are stressed, they either eat too much and get fat, or they eat not so much and get thin, and the latter is what happens to me. 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

There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting proportionately as the latter increase. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Some kinds of misery make you hate the world, but some kinds make you hate yourself, and--butter and cheese not withstanding--Neve had no question that Spear was the latter. Votes: 0

My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army. Votes: 0

I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within the context of the globalization of capital. Votes: 0

...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... Votes: 0

Wit is not levelled so much at the muscles as at the heart; and the latter will sometimes smile when there is not a single wrinkle on the cheek. 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

Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry, and coffee is said to induce chastity. Votes: 0

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul. Votes: 0

Theoretical physicists live in a classical world, looking out into a quantum-mechanical world. The latter we describe only subjectively, in terms of procedures and results in our classical domain. 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

Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious. Votes: 0

Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines. 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

We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most. Votes: 0

Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding. Votes: 0

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him. 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

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

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep 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

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter... 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

Whosoever formeth an intimacy with the enemies of his friends, does so to injure the latter. O wise man! wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies. Votes: 0

You either trust someone day one until they prove you wrong, or you say, 'I don't trust you until you show me I can trust you.' I'm the latter. 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

Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the latter should be invited to share one's problems. Votes: 0

To understand the limits and opportunities of algorithms in the context of artistic creation, we need to understand that the latter usually consists of three elements: discovery, production, and recommendation. Votes: 0

Faced with the alternative of saying goodbye to the gold standard, and therefore to his own employment, and goodbye to other people's employment, Mr. Churchill characteristically selected the latter course. 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

Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst. Votes: 0

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance. Votes: 0

Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons. Votes: 0

Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him. Votes: 0

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. 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

In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it's not for me anymore. Votes: 0

There is nothing intrinsically more beautiful or poetical about the moon than about a dunghill; if anything, the contrary, for the latter is full of life and warmth and energy. Votes: 0

Key statements made by latter-day prophets are not trite clichés. They are vital counsel to us from the Lord through his prophets. We should ponder and act upon such statements. Votes: 0

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided. Votes: 0

I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliche responses. Nor does it tell the full story. Votes: 0

Should we have a leader or should we think for ourselves? Obviously the latter in principle. But-sometimes there lies a gulf between what is theoretically right and that which is practical. Votes: 0

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic. Votes: 0

The shutdown may have temporarily sidetracked the Republicans, yet Obamacare threatens much worse for the Democrats. By 2014 the former will be ancient history, while the latter will be an ongoing mess. Votes: 0

Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing. Votes: 0

In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business. Votes: 0

The enemy is not individuals, churches, 'ex-gay' organisations or political parties; the enemy is ignorance. Change is created by focusing our energies on overcoming the latter instead of attacking the former. Votes: 0

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief. Votes: 0

The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition by having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but it also passes on a critical attitude towards them. Votes: 0

There are two ways to become popular; either by setting the cat amongst the pigeons or by getting the cat out of the midst of the pigeons. The latter is better! Votes: 0

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy. 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

Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself. 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

It's tough to make it as an actor, tougher still to make it as an actress - the Screen Actors Guild is eager to provide the statistics to verify the latter. Votes: 0

I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, co-operate with, and do the bidding of, those far away, and without whom the latter would be harmless. Votes: 0

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason. Votes: 0

As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators. 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

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

What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter. Votes: 0

Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison. Votes: 0

Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it. Votes: 0

He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction. Votes: 0

One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten. Votes: 0

I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don't see that much difference between art and poetry. Votes: 0

I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter, are considered possible contributors to birth defects in fetal tissue. Votes: 0

Candor toward a brother must not be mistaken for confession. The latter is made to the Lord of heaven and earth in the presence of a man is authorized to hear it. 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

...compelling outdoor imagery always combines some kind of personal connection to nature and skillful technique. The former seems to be a form of grace, and the latter an act of the will. Votes: 0

When a friend, then, indulges in the joy unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself. 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

Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant. Votes: 0

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws. 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

Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules. 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

I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians. Votes: 0

The thing that makes us know that this "latter rain" that is flooding the world with the glory of God is of the Lord, is because the devil is not in such business. Votes: 0

All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true. Votes: 0

Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good. Votes: 0

If the soul be pure, then shall she obtain favor and rejoice in the latter day; but if she hath been defiled, then shall she wander for a time in pain and despair. Votes: 0

There are two types of grandmothers - the ones who feel relieved when they hear the first 'Let's go home' and the ones who feel hurt. The latter are definitely in the minority. Votes: 0

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented as Frank Sinatra back in the latter's rather hysterical days at the Paramount Theater. Votes: 0

Two contrasting attitudes: non-math person: "Math is so abstract." i.e. "hard to understand" math person: We abstract *in order to understand.* Part of our job is to teach people this latter mentality. Votes: 0

The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times. Votes: 0

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem. Votes: 0

There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels Votes: 0

There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels. Votes: 0

Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the former case it would be bad literature; in the latter good. Votes: 0

The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count. Votes: 0

And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new. Votes: 0

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence. Votes: 0

Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain. Votes: 0

Strokes are categorized as either bleeding into the brain or a blockage in blood supply, known as an ischemic stroke. The latter are overwhelmingly more common, compromising about 87 percent of all stroke events. Votes: 0

For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer. Votes: 0

Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story or an essay (though I don't write many of the latter). Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There isn't much difference between "giving" and "leaving". While the former will ALWAYS come back to you, the latter will only do if it was meant to be yours in the first place. Votes: 0

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. 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

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

I saw 'A Clockwork Orange' when I was 11. When you watch 'Clockwork Orange' at 11, it either totally scares you from watching movies, or you want to become a filmmaker. I was the latter. 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

An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes. Votes: 0

Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it. Votes: 0

Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter. Votes: 0

We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice. Votes: 0

We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases. Votes: 0

...first check whether the market as a whole is rising or falling. In other words, are you in a bull market or bear market? If the latter, stay out. The odds are against you. Votes: 0

The king shall singly deliberate over secret matters; for ministers have their own ministers, and these latter some of their own; this kind of successive line of ministers tends to the disclosure of counsels. Votes: 0

There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category. Votes: 0

For much of the latter part of the 20th century, Australia seemed to be opening up to something large and good. It believed itself a generous country, the land of the 'fair go.' Votes: 0

Being in the latter stages of life means the morning is unkind to the reflection. It takes a few hours for the creases to fall out. By about 4 P.M., I look quite nice. Votes: 0

I firmly believed we should not march into Baghdad ...To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant, into a latter-day Arab hero. Votes: 0

Some visual artworks are made to be talked about more than to be seen, others are made to be seen more than to be talked about. I think I belong in the latter category. Votes: 0

The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful. Votes: 0

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman. Votes: 0

There are movie sites that love movies and there are movie sites that are just bitter people that just hate movies. I find Movieline to be in the latter. The tone is bizarrely hateful. 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

On the basis of my historical experience, I fully believe that mathematics of the 25th century will be as different from that of today as the latter is from that of the 16th century. Votes: 0

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: 0

We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today--even in the evangelical church--over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it. Votes: 0

The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure, as they are always masters of themselves. Votes: 0

Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Disappointment is like a death! In most cases both are not preplanned. They both come when they will come. Only that the former builds up experiences by the latter stops all form of experiences. Votes: 0

When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious. 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

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former. Votes: 0

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything. Votes: 0

The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning.The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end. Votes: 0

Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved. Votes: 0

Although the Knight is generally considered to be on a par with the Bishop in strength, the latter piece is somehat stronger in the majority of cases in which they are opposed to each other. Votes: 0

How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter? Votes: 0

There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than lively piece play, but in our day the latter is more often preferred. Votes: 0

The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man Votes: 0

This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge. Votes: 0

The current of emotion, which was formerly directed to gaining eternal bliss, is turned in socialism - in the same degree as the latter is permeated by evolutionism - towards the perfecting of earthly life. Votes: 0

When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter. Votes: 0

A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty. Votes: 0

The latter part of bull markets are typically led by stocks that are seen then as high quality, but the ones that do best are the ones that weren't seen as such high quality before. Votes: 0

Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed. Votes: 0

Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life. Votes: 0

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former. Votes: 0

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present Votes: 0

I feel most real when alone, even most alive when alone. Better to say that the liveliness of companionship and the liveliness of solitude differ, and the latter is never as exhausting as the former. Votes: 0

The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter. Votes: 0