Former quotes
46 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction."
"The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed."
"The movies were custard compared to politics."
"On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?"
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"Robert Whitmore died of apoplexy when a stranger from Georgia mistook him for a former Macon waiter."
"In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment."
"I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!"
"As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky once remarked – referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs – he had seen plenty of broken eggs, but never tasted any omelette."
"The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter."
"There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won."
"The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me."
