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Return to the world still more brilliant because of your former sorrows.
— Alexandre Dumas
Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims.
— David Emerald Womeldorff
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
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.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The former East Germany hardly had a monopoly on complicity. Life's every moment caught one out in one form or another.
— Paul Russell
Trying to catch hold of yourself is a fool's errand. There is no you, only a series of former yous, created in one instant, deleted in the next.
— Jesse Kellerman
You should therefore never reveal what causes you pain or pleasure, so that the former may quickly end and the latter long continue.
— Baltasar Gracian
Will Sumner was Jensen's college best friend, Dad's former intern, and the object of every one of my teenage fantasies.
— Christina Lauren
You know what you call the two winners of that $580 million PowerBall lottery? ... Former Democrats
— Jay Leno
Take it from the former pastor: The true believers are the ones who'll burn you the worst.
— Brad Meltzer
I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust.
— Demetri Martin
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Beside me, Adrian's own smile vanished, and he went perfectly still. Tatiana, the former Moroi queen, had been Christian's great-aunt.
— Richelle Mead
I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
— Caitlin Moran
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.
— Alvaro De Vasconcelos
How worthy it is to remember former benefits when we come to beg for new.
— Stephen Charnock
Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
— Alexander Pope
It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.
— William Stanley Jevons
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
— Hippocrates
Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
— Augustus William Hare
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?
— Karl Lagerfeld
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.
— Norman Cousins
I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.
— Richard M. Daley
Just because your former understanding of the purpose of your life is contradicted doesn't mean that you have to decide there is no purpose.
— Orson Scott Card
Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
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.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Oy, your karma really sucks, bubbee. You musta been Hitler in a former life or something.
— Gemma Halliday
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.
— Fran Tarkenton
The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.
— Simone De Beauvoir
The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.
— Witold Gombrowicz
The first gang members who joined the military were known as the Hounds, a group of former New York gang members.
— Carter F. Smith
The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.
— Eric Greitens
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
— Samuel Johnson
Everyone Doesn't Deserve A Front Seat In Your Life, Former "Editor In Chief, Susan Taylor Essence Magazine
— Beverly Montgomery
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
— M.H. Abrams
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
— Baruch Spinoza
Many people with IQs of 160 work for people with IQs of 100, if the former have poor intrapersonal intelligence and the latter have a high one.
— Daniel Goleman
I was physically attacked by a woman who didn't even know me. Yes, my boyfriend was her former husband, but she tried to ruin me.
— Brenda Perlin
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.
— Kerry Healey
Former president Wulff said Islam belongs to Germany. That is true. I also hold this opinion.
— Angela Merkel
Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you
— Yasmin Mogahed
A word is a word is another word more beautiful because of the former and the next and the circle and sun they create.
— Meia Geddes
Jesus evidently thought that human beings still retained a residue of their former glory.
— John R.W. Stott
The former time is the time of gloom and darkness, but the later time is a time of the redemption and the mercy of God
— Sunday Adelaja
As former secretary of state Madeleine Albright once said, "There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."14
— Sheryl Sandberg
The former morality, namely Kant's, demanded of the individual actions which one desired of all men: that was a very naive thing;
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Laborious action is frequently a relic of the preacher's trade in former days.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
There was fashion and there was idiocy, and while she was vain enough to love the former, she was not willing to indulge the latter.
— Lilith Saintcrow
How do you express a skinny blonde werewolf and a former toad in a cake?
— Elizabeth A. Reeves
In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?
— Mark Steyn
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
— James Thurber
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.
— Marianne Williamson
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.
— Marcus Aurelius
Just like with anything in life, there was good and bad. To get the former, you put up with the latter.
— Kristen Ashley
I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.
— Andre Previn
One of my former teachers repeatedly reminded us that an imbalance in theology was the same as doctrinal insanity.
— Charles C. Ryrie
Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.
— Jello Biafra
As a former gas station attendant, parking lot attendant, medical resident and current Goldman Sachs screwee, I am offended.
— Michael Lewis
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
— Friedrich Schiller
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self All I'm really.
— Robin S. Sharma
He ( Former Indian Prez, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam) let them touch his hand and in return, touched their lives.
— Andy Paula
But they are commonly more distinguished by their superiority in the latter than in the former. Their
— Adam Smith
Because we are always looking for the former world, before all the traces of the former world are gone.
— Emily St. John Mandel
There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable.
— Michelle Franklin
A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.
— Lee H. Hamilton
Last night we had Bill Clinton, the former president. Security was as tight as Governor Christie's yoga pants.
— David Letterman
The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.
— Leo Tolstoy
The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Both winners and losers shed tears; the former shed tears of joy, and the latter, tears of sorrow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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.
— Dennis Washington
He's easily the most well-adjusted former child star in the room, please welcome ... Jason Bateman
— Neil Patrick Harris
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.
— Kelly Osbourne
His former promiscuity is finally coming in handy,
— Jeaniene Frost
