Former Quotes

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.

My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

I heard the South African 'keeper had been killed and I thought it was probably one of their former goalkeepers, but when I confirmed it was Senzo Meyiwa, I was shattered.

I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth.

I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.

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

Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

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.

Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.

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

Persecutors are almost always former Victims.

I just keep trying to explain what's going on with our planet - and now, to explain what's going on with our politics, which explains why we're not doing anything about the former.

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

Wife: a former sweetheart.

Im a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.

I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.

The movies were custard compared to politics.

The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.

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

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas. --George W. Bush, on the former South African president, who is still very much alive, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007

Robert Whitmore died of apoplexy when a stranger from Georgia mistook him for a former Macon waiter.

On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?

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

I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.

I'm a former Red Sox fan, now fully rehabilitated.

Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.

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.

Well, I'm a former FBI agent.

You can't sue a president, a former president. They're indemnified.

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.

Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays.

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.

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

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

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

[Michael Flynn] become someone who for a lot of his former colleagues, people like Stanley McChrystal who looked at General Flynn and sort of said, this is not the person I thought I knew.

I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.

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

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.

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