Quotes of: Former Keyword

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Hosea Ballou

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

David Brin

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.

Martin H. Fischer

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.

Mary Lou Retton

As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

Sue Kelly

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star.'

Wil Wheaton

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Michel De Certeau

Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?

Beauty Queens

How do you express a skinny blonde werewolf and a former toad in a cake?

How (Not) to Kiss a Prince

I was Ashallayn’darkmyr Tallyn, son of Mab, former prince of the Unseelie Court, and I was not afraid of a witch on a broom.

The Iron Knight

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

Killosophy

The more we know about the former world, the better we’ll understand what happened when it fell.

Station Eleven

I turned to books for comfort. (Former First Lady, Laura Bush)

Spoken from the Heart

The mind, stretched to new dimensions by images, thoughts and ideas, can never return to its former shape.

The Nightlife: Paris

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.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

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

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

Sergei Bubka

Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.

Reflections

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