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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

What just happened?"
"Your father invited the former love of your life in for pie."
"Yeah, that's what I thought. — Stephanie Perkins

The comparison isn't with others; it's with your former and future selves. — Scott Barry Kaufman

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

There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former. — Michael Bassey Johnson

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

I sidestepped the vampire's rush, and drove my half of the former blasting rod down at its back, Buffy-like.
Maybe it works better on television. — Jim Butcher

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. — Robert Herrick

I used to live in Chris Rock's former apartment. I've got some junk mail for him if he wants it. — Adrian Tomine

As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me. — Caitlin Moran

The college was run by a man called Mr. Carver whose lifelong passions were Esperanto and Pitman's shorthand, the latter more useful than the former. — Kate Atkinson

Will Sumner was Jensen's college best friend, Dad's former intern, and the object of every one of my teenage fantasies. — Christina Lauren

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. — Horace Mann

You know what you call the two winners of that $580 million PowerBall lottery? ... Former Democrats — Jay Leno

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

Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest. — Gary Weiss

former estate that is now a public park sporting Florence's biggest — Eloisa James

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

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

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

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. — Hippocrates

Is it every former madwoman's worst nightmare to be thought crazy when she isn't? — Nancy Horan

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. — Wil Wheaton

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive. — Sarah Dessen

He hacked the FBI mainframe as a teenager and once sent an email from a former president's account, just because he could. — Cat Patrick

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter - an act. — Vera Nazarian

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. — Lance Armstrong

A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Well, thought I, he's either sleeping or he's dead. If the former, I dare not wake him. If the latter, I cannot! — Rick Yancey

Teracia was a tatted former client in her forties that had met the love of her life thanks to Gerri. She was Gerri's first attempt at matchmaking. — Milly Taiden

I think it's less risky for the Kerry campaign to embrace former President Clinton than it is to reject him. — Stuart Rothenberg

What's the point of having beliefs and values if we don't stand up for the former and live by the latter? — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Sanchez has always heard he's a good cop, maybe even a decent man. The latter's more common than the former; power breeds abuse. — Elizabeth Bear

I'd rather know a man's sincerity than his love. Whereas I have never needed the latter, one can always count on the former. — Donna Lynn Hope

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

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

I'm a shadow of my former self, she announces. Vinny was a shadow to begin with, now she's a shadow of a shadow. — Kate Atkinson

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. — Mimi Kennedy

Hazard's former colleague in his law office questioned whether any organization could endure, without ridicule, a title of AAASS. — David C. Engerman

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. — Jay Leno

...That's the difference between backpackers and holiday makers. The former can't help but invite hassle whilst the latter pay to escape it. — Harry Whitewolf

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. — Larry Wall

Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks. — Danny Bonaduce

Never bet anything on men's stupidity and on women's virginity; the former believe they aren't, while the latter believe they might be. — M.F. Moonzajer

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. — Larry Flynt

Threatening a current or former partner isn't passion, or love, or heartache. It's violence, it's abuse and it's a crime. — Miya Yamanouchi

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. — Hilarie Burton

WOMEN'S PRAYVAGANZA TODAY. The banner covers the building's former name, some dead president they shot. Below — Margaret Atwood

... he stood behind her, tall and pale, like the ghost of his former self ... — Louisa May Alcott

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. — George Packer

Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general. — Malcolm Turnbull

I'm supposed to believe it's a coincidence that we're both former spies that ended up together? — Katie Reus

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. — Curt Schilling

Kemal's former opponents in the CUP, all dead by 1930, were resuscitated as heroes in the Turkish national consciousness. — Eric Bogosian

One of my former teachers repeatedly reminded us that an imbalance in theology was the same as doctrinal insanity. — Charles C. Ryrie

RVM's Thought for the Day - What are you seeking?spiritual Health or Monetary Wealth?while the latter will dissolve,the former will make u evolve! — R.v.m.

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

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

If you believe our president, a former oil businessman, is going to end our addiction to oil, shame on all of us. — Dan Seals

I'm on very good terms with all my former wives. — Andre Previn

I am a former sabre fencer and fenced as part of the Uzbek republic team. — Alisher Usmanov

How do you express a skinny blonde werewolf and a former toad in a cake? — Elizabeth A. Reeves

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

I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games. — Charlaine Harris

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

Dooku chose his next words carefully. "Qui-Gon returned from Tatooine with a former slave boy. According to the boy's mother, the boy had no father. — James Luceno

It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life. — Martial

He ( Former Indian Prez, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam) let them touch his hand and in return, touched their lives. — Andy Paula

Last night we had Bill Clinton, the former president. Security was as tight as Governor Christie's yoga pants. — David Letterman

Many men no longer want to be identified just by their jobs, said Bengt Westerberg, the country's former deputy prime minister. — Emily Matchar

Barbara Mitchell of the Orange County Sheriff-Coroner's Office and F. James Gregris, former deputy coroner of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, were — Martin J. Smith

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. — Barry Zito

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

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

Laborious action is frequently a relic of the preacher's trade in former days. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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 political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided. — Leo Tolstoy

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. — Ana Gasteyer

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. — Branford Marsalis

But they are commonly more distinguished by their superiority in the latter than in the former. Their — Adam Smith

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

'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. — Iamblichus

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

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