Quotes of: Former Keyword

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

P. J. O'Rourke

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Tallulah Bankhead

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

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

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

Dave Pelzer

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

Jay McInerney

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

Eleanor Clift

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

Bela Lugosi

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

John Boyd Orr

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

Alphonse de Lamartine

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

Charles Kennedy

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

Paul Theroux

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

LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier

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

Moshe Dayan

There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable.

Michelle Franklin

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

Mark McKinnon

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

Fredrik Bajer

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

Tea Obreht

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

Sue Kelly

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